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.

[RikiB]

I seem to be having a problem with using a download manager with IE7, it only downloads the small local_links.php file instead of the actual file. Has anyone heard of this and how to fix it? The download manager I was trying was "free download manager".

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by RikiB

I seem to be having a problem with using a download manager with IE7, it only downloads the small local_links.php file instead of the actual file. Has anyone heard of this and how to fix it? The download manager I was trying was "free download manager".

I imagine you'll find that the small php file contains a web page telling you that you don't have access to the file. Probably, FDM is coming in as an unregistered user, so it will be something to do with cookies.

[RikiB]

You hit the nail on the head Andrew, thank you, I figured out the problem. (cookies)

[AndrewD]

I've reuploaded the alpha 3 release with the most serious bugs fixed:

09.03.08 version 2.2.9 alpha 4

- SQL error when some users (usually unregistered) visit the home page
- Pathological nesting of bbcodes causing infinite loop
- Entries possible from users with special characters in their usernames
- Error handling of *upload_maxspace* setting
- PHP error message displayed on ratings page
- Bluga.net webthumbs recoded to add new options, allow per-category use, improve reliability

Beta 1 is on its way in a few days with the following changes:

Category synchronisation
- Default owner of synced entries/categories changed to owner of category in which the entry/category is placed

Admin
- IP/userid-based hits analyses subgrouped by username/IP
- Option added to accumulate all hits from user's IP address against that user's allowances

Mirrors
- Mirror selection page includes response times for each alive mirror

Extras
JWplayer extra extended to handle xml playlists and to use the Silverlight player for windows media

Help needed

I would very much welcome reports on the *swfupload* extra that was included in alpha3/alpha4, which provides a progress bar and greater reliability for monitoring uploads

[Rouzbeh1]

updated without any complications
thanks

[macc]

hello!

have 2.2.9 alpha 3 ver and vbulletin 3.7.0 beta6 and cmps 3.0 ... will just ask if i upgrade to alpha 4 - must i also reinstall all module blocks in my cmps 3.0 or just upload new files and import product file?


regards

macc

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by macc

hello!

have 2.2.9 alpha 3 ver and vbulletin 3.7.0 beta6 and cmps 3.0 ... will just ask if i upgrade to alpha 4 - must i also reinstall all module blocks in my cmps 3.0 or just upload new files and import product file?


regards

macc

There are no changes in the vba modules between alpha 3 and 4, so should be no need to reinstall.

Beta 1 is coming quite soon....

[macc]

thanks for help and replay!

just one thing ... you recomended if i understand right ..at have not hot media and new media blocks on cmps in same time ??

reg
macc

[donal]

Thanks for the nice hack. I installed and its working fine.

However I am not able to upload files of more then 2MB. How can I increase this limit ?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by donal

Thanks for the nice hack. I installed and its working fine.

However I am not able to upload files of more then 2MB. How can I increase this limit ?

This is generally a limit in the php configuration of your website. You need to get your system admin to edit the configuration and set the parameters post_max_size and upload_max_filesize to the size you wish to accept. Bear in mind that standard large uploads are not always reliable.

I have added an 'extra' with the 3.7 release (see extras dircetory) which uses the 'swfuploader' utility to provide more robust handling of larg uploads.