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 abdelghani68

If I have 2 entries and rename '*ldm_id3_playingtime' with 'dur?e' and add after an entrie, I can't rename for the new entrie '*ldm_id3_playingtime' with 'dur?e'. I will have a message of error.

can you help me please

I'll investigate, but what I tried to explain is that you don't need to change the entity name - you provide a translation for the phrase ldm_id3_playingtime

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by ShawnV

Updated to 2.3.0-beta 1, everything worked fine, after uploading the quick fix, (includes/local_links_entitites.php and includes/local_links_vbafunc.php)

The LDM no longer loads when the link is used...

http://www.koww.net/forum/local_links.php


_V

I think one of of the files had somehow acquired a trailing space and been saved in utf8 format. Please try these.

[ShawnV]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

I think one of of the files had somehow acquired a trailing space and been saved in utf8 format. Please try these.

Yes, that fixed it...thank you Andew.

_V

[itsblack]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

I think one of of the files had somehow acquired a trailing space and been saved in utf8 format. Please try these.

Yeah, thank you Andrew, the problem is fixed.

Another question, how can I make the attributes display like the old way, I mean this:

attribute name: attribute

there are too many <tr> & <td> in the template, I cannot figure it out myself.

[K4GAP]

Getting the following message when trying to upload a WMV file...

"Your submission could not be processed because a security token was missing or mismatched.

If this occurred unexpectedly, please inform the administrator and describe the action you performed before you received this error."

What up with that?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by GaryT

Getting the following message when trying to upload a WMV file...

"Your submission could not be processed because a security token was missing or mismatched.

If this occurred unexpectedly, please inform the administrator and describe the action you performed before you received this error."

What up with that?

One possibility is that the wmv file is bigger than the php.ini setting *post_max_size* As a result, the scripts only get to see part of the information that the user has posted. vbulletin gets to give its error message about the security token before lDM gets a chance to warn the user.

Worth checking *post_max_size* and *upload_max_filesize", e.g. on the LDM admin pages or vb/admincp/maintenance/phpinfo

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by itsblack

Another question, how can I make the attributes display like the old way, I mean this:

there are too many <tr> & <td> in the template, I cannot figure it out myself.

It's the "links_entitymarkupbit" template. The template actually contains several parts, each handling one type of attribute. These are contained in blocks <if condition="$entitytemplate==N"> ... </ if> Maybe I should break it up some more.

Here are what the blocks do:

N=1 - url/download attributes
2 - images
3 - not used
4 - text and hidden types
5 - yes/no types
6 - media types

So, you can get the layout name: contents for text attributes like this:

<if condition="$entitytemplate==4">
<table width="100%">
<tr>
	<td>
	<span class="smallfont">$entityname: 
<if condition="$links_permissions['can_search_link']">
	<a href="$SEARCH_SCRIPT.php?{$vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl']}action=show&amp;entity=$entityvalue" title="$vbphrase[ll_search]">$entitytext</a>
<else />
	$entitytext
</if>
	</span>
	</td>
</tr>
</if>
<if condition="$entitydesc">
<tr>
	<td>
	<span class="smallfont">$entitydesc</span>
	</td>
</tr>
</if>
</table>
</if>

[abdelghani68]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

I'll investigate, but what I tried to explain is that you don't need to change the entity name - you provide a translation for the phrase ldm_id3_playingtime

I am very sorry. I have understand now.Thanks !

[vbboarder]

Wow, you got A LOT of coding done in 2 months! Thanks for the update Andrew I'll install it today and start testing. Special thanks for the upgrades to attributes, shadowbox, ffmpeg, & ID3 tags.

[vbboarder]

Image Resizer Mod’s Shadowbox conflict with LDM causing LDM’s Shadowbox to not play images/ audios/ videos in both IE7 & FF2, or if it does play, then there are other problems like audio only – no video, IE7 error message popups, Close button becomes unresponsive, etc. This problem is expected since the scripts are the same, which results in namespace collisions.

Solution: since LDM’s Shadowbox does much more than the Image Resizer’s Shadowbox and because the Image Resizer supports 10 different image viewers, simply choose another image viewer for the Image Resizer in its settings page.