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.

[obmob]

Ok... this was a busy weekend, will read carefully, good week

[Alfa1]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

LDM/admin/permissions/can_play_musicbox

I had that permission turned off.

Originally Posted by AndrewD

I'll give these points some thought

Thanks.

I would like to display an 'upload file' button within each category. Adding a button is relatively easy to do, but I would like the category to be selected on the upload page. I have been looking to find the code.
Here is what I have come up with for the links_main template so far:

<td class="smallfont"><a href="$LINKS_SCRIPT.php?{$vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl']}action=addlink&amp;catid=<if condition="$viewcatid"> 
rel="nofollow"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/newthread.gif" alt="Post new file" border="0" /></a><else />&nbsp;</if></td>

But that does not select the category, like it should. Do you know what I am doing wrong?

[Alfa1]

The LDM Similarthreads plugin has a problem. At least when several thousand visitors try to open threads around the same time.

Threads would not open anymore. A mass of queries where launched. Tables started locking. Here are the queries that where running when my site went down:

stop proces 1180 database_name localhost database_name
Query 32 updating DELETE FROM vb6_linksdebug WHERE settingtime <
'1243891011'
stop proces 1181 database_name localhost database_name Query 32
Locked DELETE FROM vb6_linksdebug WHERE settingtime < '1243891011'
stop proces 1183 database_name localhost database_name Query 32
Locked DELETE FROM vb6_linksdebug WHERE settingtime < '1243891013'
stop proces 1184 database_name localhost database_name Query 32
Locked DELETE FROM vb6_linksdebug WHERE settingtime < '1243891014'
stop proces 1191 database_name localhost database_name Query 32
Locked DELETE FROM vb6_linksdebug WHERE settingtime < '1243891016'
stop proces 1192 database_name localhost database_name Query 32
Locked DELETE FROM vb6_linksdebug WHERE settingtime < '1243891016'
stop proces 1193 database_name localhost database_name Query 32
Locked DELETE FROM vb6_linksdebug WHERE settingtime < '1243891016'
stop proces 1196 database_name localhost database_name Query 32
Locked DELETE FROM vb6_linksdebug WHERE settingtime < '1243891017'
stop proces 1200 database_name localhost database_name Query 32
Locked DELETE FROM vb6_linksdebug WHERE settingtime < '1243891017'

I deactivated the plugins and all went back to normal.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

The LDM Similarthreads plugin has a problem. At least when several thousand visitors try to open threads around the same time.

Threads would not open anymore. A mass of queries where launched. Tables started locking. Here are the queries that where running when my site went down:
I deactivated the plugins and all went back to normal.

I'm not surprised, and this is why I was saying yesterday that one needs to keep the functionality of these plugins under control.

However, I think the error messages that you are reporting are happening because you have switched on LDM's debug or tracing feature - they are not related to the *similarthreads* plugin. There is no reason at all why you need debug or trace in normal use - all it's doing is adding a lot of overhead in terms of database access. I suggest you disable this feature and see whether the other plugins are still causing problems.

Debug and tracing are found on LDM->admin->debug

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

I would like to display an 'upload file' button within each category. Adding a button is relatively easy to do, but I would like the category to be selected on the upload page. I have been looking to find the code.
Here is what I have come up with for the links_main template so far:

<td class="smallfont"><a href="$LINKS_SCRIPT.php?{$vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl']}action=addlink&amp;catid=<if condition="$viewcatid"> 
rel="nofollow"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/newthread.gif" alt="Post new file" border="0" /></a><else />&nbsp;</if></td>

But that does not select the category, like it should. Do you know what I am doing wrong?

<td class="smallfont">
<if condition="$viewcatid>0"><a href="$LINKS_SCRIPT.php?{$vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl']}action=addlink&amp;catid=$viewcatid"
rel="nofollow"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/newthread.gif" alt="Post new file" border="0" /></a><else />&nbsp;</if>
</td>

[pooslokka]

Originally Posted by pooslokka

oh great

btw, ill check the information you gave and reply you asap
Thank you andrewD for the kind corporation

Hai andrew, sorry for the delayed reply

i went to our vps lx admin panael and change the max memory limit to 65
but its not taking effect in vb admin
still shows old value

in lx admin


after changing, i login to vb admin
but still 32



uploading pic also still same problem.


Edit : May be i need to reboot the vps right?
Edit : banghead. even after restart of vps, it says 32

[skol]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Sorry to hear this. Do you want me to take a look - I can't easily suggest a solution otherwise. Send me a PM with site details + a full admin account.

Superb Andrew thank you,all up and running..

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by pooslokka

Hai andrew, sorry for the delayed reply

i went to our vps lx admin panael and change the max memory limit to 65
but its not taking effect in vb admin
still shows old value

in lx admin


after changing, i login to vb admin
but still 32



uploading pic also still same problem.


Edit : May be i need to reboot the vps right?
Edit : banghead. even after restart of vps, it says 32

I'm sorry - I cant really help you with specific server problems. I have no idea whether the parameter you have changed is the the required php parameter or not.

[sparklywater]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Several thoughts:

3) Does Google actually index urls with long "?action=xxx..." params?

Andrew, I suspect that this might be the cause of the indexing problem. I've checked the other two options you listed and they both look fine. It is possible that Google is overlooking URLs that end in ?action=play...
I already have vbSEO installed. Can you suggest a way to change the core format of those URLs so that they are more conventional, without the ?action=play part?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by sparklywater

Andrew, I suspect that this might be the cause of the indexing problem. I've checked the other two options you listed and they both look fine. It is possible that Google is overlooking URLs that end in ?action=play...
I already have vbSEO installed. Can you suggest a way to change the core format of those URLs so that they are more conventional, without the ?action=play part?

You can get LDM to present a more conventional url with the SEO options on LDM->admin. However, these will only work if the web server is properly configured to recognise them. You can find an explanation in the wiki. I have no idea if this can be set up with vbseo - I'm not keen to pay them for a licence in order to develop software that works with their product

Could you let me know the url of a page on your site that you want Google to scan, then I can see if I have other ideas.