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.

[dieKetzer]

this looks very promising.
i will install it and report back

[Leo Brazil]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

This will be corrected in the next upload. If you want a fix now, here's what to do:

Edit includes/local_links_include.php, line 2369, change:

PHP Code:

    while ($rec=$vbulletin->db->fetch_array($asb)) {
        foreach ($usernames as $k=>$v) {
            if ($v==$rec['username']) { 


to

PHP Code:

    while ($rec=$vbulletin->db->fetch_array($asb)) {
        foreach ($usernames as $k=>$v) {
            $hv = htmlspecialchars_uni($v);
            if ($hv==$rec['username']) { 


Hi AndrewD,

I did exactly like this but the problem remains the same, when I try to create a new category.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Leo Brazil

Hi AndrewD,

I did exactly like this but the problem remains the same, when I try to create a new category.

I'm sorry to learn that this fix did not solve your problem. To investigate, I really need to access your site as an admin which has a problematic username and has permission to get at the products and plugin section of the admincp. If you are happy for me to do this, send me a PM with details of site url, username and password.

[dieKetzer]

thus far i am both very impressed and overwhelmed by the many configuration option available.
this one is the best i have used yet. i should have tried it years ago!

[Alfa1]

After upgrading to 2.3.0 RC5 and installing the flash-sites-plugin.xml:

PHP Code:

Warning:  Unexpected character in input:  ''' (ASCII=39) state=1 in /public_html/forum/includes/local_links_players.php(108) : eval()'d code on line 30 


Note that my site has custom table prefixes.

Turning the plugin off, makes the errors go away. How can I solve this?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

After upgrading to 2.3.0 RC5 and installing the flash-sites-plugin.xml:

PHP Code:

Warning:  Unexpected character in input:  ''' (ASCII=39) state=1 in /public_html/forum/includes/local_links_players.php(108) : eval()'d code on line 30 


Note that my site has custom table prefixes.

Turning the plugin off, makes the errors go away. How can I solve this?

An extra quote character has got itself into the flash site plugin. You can fix this by going to vb/acp/products and plugins/plugin manager, and editing the "Enable media player for Flash-based websites" plugin that is attached to the ldm_playme_initplayers hook.

Find the line that reads

	"canremove"' => 1,  // can be deleted

and get rid of the single quote, i.e. make it read

	"canremove" => 1,  // can be deleted

[Alfa1]

Thank you for the swift reply. That solves it.

How can I edit the text that is displayed on forum home stats? I want to add a link to the file archive.

I have 3 different main categories in my LDM: documents, video and audio. Is it possible to display the forum home stats for each of these main categories?

Is it possible to use patch-forumhome-newlinks or another function to display latest new files on /search.php?do=getnew ?

[sparklywater]

I have a category with lots of links to Jukebox audio files. The category page has been indexed by Google, but not a single Jukebox player link has been indexed even after several months. These links do have some text content so Google should be able to index them. I'm wondering if anything in the LDM setup is preventing these pages from being indexed?

[Alfa1]

Same here. Even jukebox player links dated many years ago are not in Googles cache, while Google did indexed most of my site.

[Alfa1]

How does the LDM Similarthreads plug-in calculate similar files on showthread? I really like this feature, but it shows completely irrelevant files.