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.

[itsblack]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Interesting, that bug has been there for quite some time but has only just been hit. I think this version of local_links_search.php fixes the bug.


I'm now going to have to see how to deal with the 3.6.10/3.7.0RC4 changes.

Thank you very much. It works.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

How can I:
- get rid of the 'my recent LDM hits' box on profile?
- get rid of the mentions of LDM in the 'About me'tab on profile?
- change the phrase of 'My recent LDM entries'?

I think I am going to have to rethink the profile integration with vb3.7. The underlying vbulletin code is quite different and this is creating the problems you are experiencing.

When you enable LDM profile integration, some new fields are added to the profile records in the database. If you turn it off again, these fields are retained, to give you the option of re-enabling profile integration at a later stage without destroying any customisations that users have already made. With vb3.6 this worked fine, but with 3.7 it is leaving the residual blank profile blocks visible.

** Edited ** You can turn off profile intergation in LDM admin/settings, then go to the vb/admin/user profile and kill the two LDM user profile fields. This will get rid of the blank displays. But I'd prefer a better solution.

Originally Posted by Alfa1

- add a section on the 'statistics' tab on profile to display: 'total documents', 'total video's' and 'total audio'? Note that video, documents and audio are separate categories in my LDM.

Will think about this.

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Does the swf uploader use a different url, than local_links.php?action=addlink ? I was just wondering, because I don't get it to work from local_links.php?action=addlink

If you have installed the extra and enabled it on ldm/admin/settings, then the normal add link page will simply have a swfupload-enabled upload box in exactly the same place as the standard upload box. The add multi link page will not work with swfupload at present.

[Rouzbeh1]

oh forgot to mention.
i have this conf as a .htaccess file in my public_html

RewriteEngine On

#RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbseourl=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|chat|cron)
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !\.(jpg|gif)$ 
RewriteRule ^(archive/.*)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA] 

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA] 


#RewriteRule (.*)local_links/links/([^0-9]+)$            /$1$2 [L]
#RewriteRule (.*)local_links/links/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)$    /$1local_links.php?catid=$2&linkid=$3 [L]
#RewriteRule (.*)local_links/links/([0-9]+)$             /$1local_links.php?catid=$2 [L]
#RewriteRule (.*)local_links/jump/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)$     /$1local_links.php?action=jump&id=$2&catid=$3 [L]
#RewriteRule (.*)local_links/jump/([0-9]+)$             /$1local_links.php?action=jump&id=$2 [L]
#RewriteRule (.*)local_stream/([0-9]+)$           /$1local_stream.php?action=stream&id=$2 [L]


RewriteRule (.*)local_links/links/c-[^/]+-([0-9]+)$	$1local_links.php?catid=$2	[R,L]
RewriteRule (.*)local_links/links/c-[^/]+-([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)$	$1local_links.php?catid=$2&linkid=$3	[R,L]
RewriteRule (.*)local_links/jump/c-[^/]+-([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)$	$1local_links.php?action=jump&catid=$2&id=$3	[R,L]
RewriteRule (.*)local_links/play/c-[^/]+-([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)$	$1local_links.php?action=play&catid=$2&linkid=$3	[R,L]
RewriteRule (.*)local_links/links/c-[^/]+-([0-9]+)(\?page=[0-9]+)$	$1local_links.php?catid=$2&page=$3	[R,L]
RewriteRule (.*)local_links/play/c-[^/]+-([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)(\?page=[0-9]+)$	$1local_links.php?action=play&catid=$2&linkid=$3&page=$4	[R,L]

[AndrewD]

Thanks

Originally Posted by GrendelKhan{TSU

1)
-- cat_icon_new
-- cat_icon_new
-- subcat_icon
still not showing up. its not reading the "forums/" folder and gets an error (doubles up the forums directory) if you put it in manually eg:

- ldm no cat icons

I think you are entering these incorrectly. They should be *relative* to the forum, not relative to the forum's parent,

i.e. you should specify /linksdownloads/icons/ not /forums/linksdownloads/icons/

Originally Posted by GrendelKhan{TSU

2) template_linkbit (short: title+thumb): TITLE is not appearing.
bug (at least for me): ldm no title

my bug. If you edit the links_linkbit_short template and replace $linkurlshortlink by $linkurllink, you should be ok

Originally Posted by GrendelKhan{TSU

3) also, would be nice to see a bullet or something next to the items in the statistics. (or as an options).

too hard to read individual items otherwise. (don't know where one starts and another ends).

- LDM (right side stats)

will do

[RikiB]

Hey Andrew, I know you are getting slammed with tons of feedback but I just wanted to see if you had a moment to look into updating the reset hit count on the limitaccess-byhits-plugin.
No rush, the workaround Im using now is just increase the global hit count.
Riki

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by RikiB

Hey Andrew, I know you are getting slammed with tons of feedback but I just wanted to see if you had a moment to look into updating the reset hit count on the limitaccess-byhits-plugin.
No rush, the workaround Im using now is just increase the global hit count.
Riki

Working on it right now.

What I am doing is making it possible to selectively clear hits from the download table and to re-order how these hits are presented on the admin hits pages to make it easier to find a particular access. This is the simplest way to achieve what you want.

[Alfa1]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

If you have installed the extra and enabled it on ldm/admin/settings, then the normal add link page will simply have a swfupload-enabled upload box in exactly the same place as the standard upload box. The add multi link page will not work with swfupload at present.

I see now. This looks nice! Thank you.
Please consider adding a flash based file browser / uploader similar to the one putfile has. Image preview for pictures and video's would be nice.

I have the JW player in linkbit which look really nice. Is there any way to let JW player handle the flash sites or alternatively to have the flashsites play in linkbit?

Regarding the similar threads addon: The title of the block is 'Similar Entries in Threads'. This does not seem logical. Since the title of the vbulletin function is 'similar threads', it seems more logical to name the LDM title 'similar files'.
Is there any way to make the linkbit used look like the similar threads linkbit?

I have the same question about LDM categories: is there any way to make them look like forum categories, forums and subforums?
I noticed the add new linkbit extra. Can I use this somehow to create linkbits to resemble forum categories, forums and subforums?

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Thanks
I think you are entering these incorrectly. They should be *relative* to the forum, not relative to the forum's parent,

i.e. you should specify /linksdownloads/icons/ not /forums/linksdownloads/icons/

I tried both ways.

1) when I do as relative to forums it shows up as
http://www.unrealaddicts.com/linksdownloads/icons/Clan-TSU-logo-icon-80x80.gif

(note: MISSING the /forums/ folder)

2) when I add /forums/
it ends with an error (cause of TWO /forums/ folders) ie:

cat_icon (/forums/linksdownloads/icons/music-to-frag-to-Clan-TSU.jpg) Cannot find icon 'http://www.unrealaddicts.com/forums/forums/linksdownloads/icons/music-to-frag-to-Clan-TSU.jpg'

:/

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by GrendelKhan{TSU

I tried both ways.

1) when I do as relative to forums it shows up as
http://www.unrealaddicts.com/linksdownloads/icons/Clan-TSU-logo-icon-80x80.gif

(note: MISSING the /forums/ folder)

2) when I add /forums/
it ends with an error (cause of TWO /forums/ folders) ie:

cat_icon (/forums/linksdownloads/icons/music-to-frag-to-Clan-TSU.jpg) Cannot find icon 'http://www.unrealaddicts.com/forums/forums/linksdownloads/icons/music-to-frag-to-Clan-TSU.jpg'

:/

How exactly are entering the 'relative to forum' string?

Can you also check and let me know the setting of 'forum url' on your vb/admincp

[WebmasterSimds]

Andrew,

Hello, I installed the latest greatest version of vb and your mod. my question is this. what switches do i need to change to fix this that i get up at the top of the LDM section?

Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in [path]/includes/local_links_vbafunc.php on line 436

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [path]/includes/local_links_vbafunc.php on line 436

it only happens when i am directly in the LDM section itself.

Thanks In Advance