Major Additions - Links and Downloads Manager

What this is and does

LDM is a general-purpose tool for managing libraries of links and files, and handling uploads and downloads in a flexible way, while tracking and control user access. It has a range of integrated media players and a large library of 'plugin' extras.

Installation and Usage Explained in the on-line Wiki, with a brief explanation in the file instructions.txt in the release zip. The recent revision history is given in the first post of this thread.

Please use carefully and always backup your database before upgrading. Post reports of problems and suggestions for enhancements in this thread.

14.06.09 Version 2.3.0 is now the the officially-supported version. Works with 3.7 and vb 3.8. Please post comments in this thread

22.06.08 Version 2.2.9-post1 - This is the previous supported version. Works fine with all versions of vb 3.6 and vb 3.7. All standard features except profile integration and forum prefix selection work fine with vb 3.8.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by skokarl

Hallo AndrewD ,

i am from german, excuse my bad english.

have anyone a german language file for the great mod ?

Yes, indeed, there is a (fairly complete) German translation included in the release zip. You can either install it directly by using the release/product-eirma_ldm-de.xml file or you can install the English version, then add the German phrases from development/phrases/phrases-de.xml

[abdelghani68]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

That's right - but it does accept a single category id, and the module then produces a list of categories in that category id down to the specified depth. Are you saying that you want it to accept multiple category ids and produce separate listings for each of them? Or do you want the listings to be merged somehow?

I just want that I can choose the id categories.

Exemple if I have 20 categories in the library, I can to display in the modules vba only 5 categories.

thanks

[skokarl]

Hallo,

uploads > 12 mb fault with a missing security token ?
what is wrong ?

vB 3.73

I know, my english is bad ... sorry.

edit : it's okay ... i have change the php.ini .... timeout etc.

[skokarl]

I have a XAMPP Installation .... can I change the upload path to c:\upload on my server ?

edit : I have found the button ... this is a absolut great mod .... many thanks for the coder

[littefire]

question:
my download directly in under my site ./vbb/dl/, if i type www.mysite.com/vbb/dl/ in browser, it shows every files and directorys.
Is that correct? if someone know the location,he can dowload all files without permisson?
what's wrong with my settings?
please help!

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by littefire

question:
my download directly in under my site ./vbb/dl/, if i type www.mysite.com/vbb/dl/ in browser, it shows every files and directorys.
Is that correct? if someone know the location,he can dowload all files without permisson?
what's wrong with my settings?
please help!

Yes, this depends on the security settings on your web server
- if your site is using Apache as web server, this can be configured to prohibit directory browing - see for example http://forums.devshed.com/apache-dev...help-9870.html
- provided you have access to web server directories outside directory root, you can also configure LDM to store files outside the web root (settings local_file_root and local_file_root_prefix). This will prevent the problem in the first place
- you can also create an empty file called index.html in /vbb/dl (the next version of LDM 2.3.0 will do this for you)

It's interesting - no-one had noticed this problem for nearly four years, then I've had two reports in the past month or so

[vbboarder]

Hot Media module bugs fixed:
Edited ldm_hot_media.php to fix bugs:
1. The # of entries were not time limited:
Problems: TIMENOW was not in scope and portal_ldm_hot_media_hitssince was undefined
Solutions: used time() and $GLOBALS['links_defaults']['days_seen_on_portal'] to correctly time limit # of entries
2. Problem: inlineJWplayer_mp3_height did not account for mp3?s album art
Solution: set inlineJWplayer_mp3_height to thumbnail size * aspect ratio
3. Added 8 filetypes supported by the JW players: flv|m4a|m4v|mp3|mp4|wma|wmv|xml

New Media module bugs fixed:
Edited ldm_new_media.php: to fix bugs:
1. Fixed 3 incorrectly referenced variables: changed from portal_ldm_hot_media_ to portal_ldm_new_media
2. Problem: inlineJWplayer_mp3_height did not account for mp3?s album art
Solution: set inlineJWplayer_mp3_height to thumbnail size * aspect ratio
3. Added 8 filetypes supported by the JW players: flv|m4a|m4v|mp3|mp4|wma|wmv|xml

New Thumbs module bug fixed:
Edited adv_portal_custom_ldm_new_thumb_one template to fix bug where setting $linkimg = 0 for inline players prevents album art thumbnails to appear in the VBA module ? added $templinkimg variable.

Created Hot thumbnails VBA module:
I took the liberty to create a module for popular entries with thumbnails based on the New thumbnails VBA module. Popular entries are time limited by the ?days_seen_on_portal? LDM setting.

Edited JWPlayer Addons - ldm_linkbit_create plugin:
1. In 2.2.9, plugin only handled flv, mp3, & mp4. Added handling of m4a, m4v, & xml.
2. Made player width & height consistent for uniform layout and to account for mp3, m4a, wma file?s album art.
3. Fixed bug where setting $linkimg = 0 for inline players prevents album art thumbnails to appear in the VBA module ? added $templinkimg variable.
4. Fixed bug where inline players were not aligned in table rows in the media VBA modules.
5. Streamlined and reduced redundant code for easier debugging.

New files included in zip file:
ldm_new_media.xml, ldm_hot_media.xml, ldm_new_thumb.xml, ldm_hot_thumb.xml, JWPlayer Addons ? ldm_linkbit_create.php


To install: in adminCP left column, go to VBA CMPS > Download / Upload Module > select the xml file to upload and the style to apply it to. If you already have these modules installed, you must select ?allow overwrite? after you click ?Submit.?

Required manual edits to use new features of these VBA modules:
1. For JWPlayer Addons ? ldm_linkbit_create.php, go to Plugin Manager, find & click on the LDM link for the JWPlayer Addons plugin hooked to ldm_linkbit_create, remove all of the old code, and paste in all of the new code from the file.

2. Edit JWPlayer Addons - ldm_linkbit_gettypebit plugin:
In the first line, change array(?mp3?, ?flv?, ?mp4?)
TO: array("flv", "mp3", "mp4", "m4v", "m4a", "xml", ?wma?, ?wmv?)

[vbboarder]

Feature Request: My portal page loads slow when I have all 4 VBA media modules enabled (new thumbs, hot thumbs, new media, hot media). On that page, I have a total of 16 thumbnails displayed for the thumb modules and a total of 16 flash videos displayed for the media modules. I disabled other VBA modules on this portal page. Can you provide an option to cache built templates for these 4 modules so that the server only have to build it once during the cache period? It would be much appreciated! Your other VBA modules seem to load fine.

Feature Request: For uploaded images that are smaller than “link_imagesize”, the image remains unchanged. Can you enable your local_resize.php script to enlarge small images to “link_imagesize” (I understand the resolution will be less, that’s fine)? I don’t mind if ImageMagick needs to be installed since there are easy self-installers for many OS and many hosting providers provide it by default. This feature would really help image categories to have a uniform layout.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by vbboarder

Feature Request: My portal page loads slow when I have all 4 VBA media modules enabled (new thumbs, hot thumbs, new media, hot media). On that page, I have a total of 16 thumbnails displayed for the thumb modules and a total of 16 flash videos displayed for the media modules. I disabled other VBA modules on this portal page. Can you provide an option to cache built templates for these 4 modules so that the server only have to build it once during the cache period? It would be much appreciated! Your other VBA modules seem to load fine.

Feature Request: For uploaded images that are smaller than ?link_imagesize?, the image remains unchanged. Can you enable your local_resize.php script to enlarge small images to ?link_imagesize? (I understand the resolution will be less, that?s fine)? I don?t mind if ImageMagick needs to be installed since there are easy self-installers for many OS and many hosting providers provide it by default. This feature would really help image categories to have a uniform layout.

Thanks - and thanks for the fixes to the modules. You are right about the vba page loads when there are multiple modules - in general version 2.2.9 had become inefficient in a number of areas and 2.3.0 was mainly intended to tidy up these things. I will look into the possibilities for caching bits.

[obmob]

Hmm... a lot of stuff has been added since 2.2.8 x.x

Thanks Andrew! :3