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.

[Simon Lloyd]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

There's no difficulty in principle in doing this, but it requires someone to write the interface between vbulletin, wordpress and LDM. It's not something I'm prepared to take on at this stage, because in the not-too-distant future, I think there's going to be a lot of effort needed to get things working with vbulletin 4.0.

why not use something like http://www.websnapr.com/ just a little bit of code/javascript (around 4 lines) and after a short while thumbnails will be generated for your links, take a look here http://www.thecodecage.com at the bottom of the page i have affiliates, hover a link and a thumbnail of their site will pop up!

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Simon Lloyd

why not use something like http://www.websnapr.com/ just a little bit of code/javascript (around 4 lines) and after a short while thumbnails will be generated for your links, take a look here http://www.thecodecage.com at the bottom of the page i have affiliates, hover a link and a thumbnail of their site will pop up!

Sounds like a good idea - in fact LDM includes extras to do this task the other way round (i.e. popup thumbnails of its own entries).

[vbboarder]

Thanks for the new features and bug fixes Andrew

[itsblack]

Andrew, thank you for the update.
Here is the updated chinese translation.

[Rouzbeh1]

yesss
everything works perfect now
thank you very much andrew

[Leo Brazil]

I've following this mod since 3.6 always found a great idea but never saw much application for my board. My mistake, people got nuts trying to search for a file or links that were given as a tip a long time ago and got lost in tons of threads and pages.
So I was here glad to surrender to this great idea finally.

But I'm on 3.8.2 running your RC5 and faced a few issues. I didn't open it to my users because I want to make sure everything is OK, so I can test whatever I want before.

Here goes the issues.

- My test users has non usual characters symbols like "&", "%" or "$", in fact my admin account has one of those too and if I try to make an entry using them it says "User not recognised on db" but if I just edit username to any other without those symbols it goes OK.

- I have created a few categories to test (had to edit username too but goes OK) and after that I populated them with some entries. Some pictures, some files and some links, so far so good but at Main Category page if I click on category name, whichever the category I choose, it redirects me all the time to my forums page. Permissions were set as well as I tested some allowances but always goes this way.

- I've seen many addons for this mod, just to save time, is there one that gives me a snap-shot as a thumbnail of URL page I used as an entry ? I mean, this way a thumbnail would be used instead of nothing.

Could you give me some lights ?

Honestly, I felt so dumb when testing your mod, I tought: "Gee, why did I never test this thing before ??? It's so great !!!
Nice job you done.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Leo Brazil

- My test users has non usual characters symbols like "&", "%" or "$", in fact my admin account has one of those too and if I try to make an entry using them it says "User not recognised on db" but if I just edit username to any other without those symbols it goes OK.

Thanks for reporting this. I think the problem is restricted to the "&" character (and this is easy to fix), but I will need to do some more checks to be certain that the fix doesn't cause other problems.

Originally Posted by Leo Brazil

- I have created a few categories to test (had to edit username too but goes OK) and after that I populated them with some entries. Some pictures, some files and some links, so far so good but at Main Category page if I click on category name, whichever the category I choose, it redirects me all the time to my forums page. Permissions were set as well as I tested some allowances but always goes this way.

This has me stuck. When you hover the mouse over the urls on the Main Category page, what is displayed at the bottom of the browser?

Originally Posted by Leo Brazil

- I've seen many addons for this mod, just to save time, is there one that gives me a snap-shot as a thumbnail of URL page I used as an entry ? I mean, this way a thumbnail would be used instead of nothing.

Have you checked the "screenshots" directory in the extra. There are addons to interface with both the snap (www.snap.com) and webthumbs (http://bluga.net/webthumb/) snapshots tools.

[Leo Brazil]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Thanks for reporting this. I think the problem is restricted to the "&" character (and this is easy to fix), but I will need to do some more checks to be certain that the fix doesn't cause other problems.

Man, I have to say, fastest support I ever had on here !! You should charge for your mod, I woudn't mind to pay.

Yes, double checking it, you're right, it seems only happens with "&".

Originally Posted by AndrewD

This has me stuck. When you hover the mouse over the urls on the Main Category page, what is displayed at the bottom of the browser?

I think this is working fine cause your system was suppose to hide the original link from the outside one. Every Category link mouse over shows me something like http://www.mysite.com/forums/local_links/links/1 or http://www.mysite.com/forums/local_links/links/2 ,etc. Every category has a different number at the end, but all of them leads to forumhome when clicked.

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Have you checked the "screenshots" directory in the extra. There are addons to interface with both the snap (www.snap.com) and webthumbs (http://bluga.net/webthumb/) snapshots tools.

I saw them, just to wanna know each one is the simplest one and does the job.

Thanks

[obmob]

Well... went online with 2.3.0, everything was fine till i bumped into extra attributes added to certain entries.

I used it to add extra wallpaper size for some i had done. So, the attribute "widescreen" was used and it used to appear as a link, and hits to it were also added to the total count.

I had edited links_viewone_entity for that to happen.

Well, i tried the same this time, but no success, now, even if the attribute is a text i see the whole image in the attribute field.

Also a download link and a magnifier lenz.

If i change the attribute to be an image instead of a URL, te result is a thumbnail, but with no download link, just the magnifier.

In the end if i use this method, the hits are not counted.

Question:

Is there a way to show the thumbnail, but also be able to count hits... or, to hide the big image from my linkbit while the attribute is just a URL, would prefer to show the thumb and click on it to download.

Hope I was clear

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Leo Brazil

I think this is working fine cause your system was suppose to hide the original link from the outside one. Every Category link mouse over shows me something like http://www.mysite.com/forums/local_links/links/1 or http://www.mysite.com/forums/local_links/links/2 ,etc. Every category has a different number at the end, but all of them leads to forumhome when clicked.

I think you've enabled LDM's SEO option without configuring your server to handle this. See http://www.eirma.org/wikis/index.php...e_Optimisation.

Originally Posted by Leo Brazil

I saw them, just to wanna know each one is the simplest one and does the job.

Both Snap and EasyWebThumbs are straightforward to use. I think Snap is probably easier.

Good luck!