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.

[abdelghani68]

hi

Thank you for this super add on. Can I ask you how to do for the wimpy button and wimpy player works every 2 at the same time. Because when I instal winpy button, the wimpy player or the jukebox doesn t works.

Thank you for your help and sorry for my language

[Willygsm]

hi andrewD,

i get some problem after upgrade from 2.7.0 to 2.9.0

Now i can't set allowance to all my forum usergroup.

For e.g
moderator i can set like 1 gb for 30 days and member 500 mb for 30 days

I upload the picture here, pleaes hava a look. Thanks

[Britmovie]

Hi no links are showing on the navbar when I use a custom template any ideas please?
www.britmovie.net/forum

[RikiB]

This may sound crazy, but is there anyway to find out how fast someone is downloading a file? Perhaps LDLM can detect the speed in which the files are being downloaded?

Just curious if its possible, Thanks,
Riki

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by RikiB

This may sound crazy, but is there anyway to find out how fast someone is downloading a file? Perhaps LDLM can detect the speed in which the files are being downloaded?

Just curious if its possible, Thanks,
Riki

I don't think this is possible inside LDM - it's straightforward enough to calculate the time difference between when LDM itself starts to pass the file to the use and when it has finished its own work, but this does not tell you anything about other parts of the transmission process. I imagine that an accurate calculation would have to be done at the user end, e.g. with javascript, but that will also fail if the user has another download manager in place.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Britmovie

Hi no links are showing on the navbar when I use a custom template any ideas please?
www.britmovie.net/forum

Hi -I'm afraid I don't understand your question - can you give me a bit more explanation?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Willygsm

hi andrewD,

i get some problem after upgrade from 2.7.0 to 2.9.0

Now i can't set allowance to all my forum usergroup.

For e.g
moderator i can set like 1 gb for 30 days and member 500 mb for 30 days

I upload the picture here, please have a look. Thanks

Between 2.2.7 and 2.2.9, I changed the templates used for displaying the admin allowances page, so I wonder if you have modified any of the LDM template, e.g. link_admin

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by abdelghani68

hi

Thank you for this super add on. Can I ask you how to do for the wimpy button and wimpy player works every 2 at the same time. Because when I instal winpy button, the wimpy player or the jukebox doesn t works.

Thank you for your help and sorry for my language

I'm not sure I understand your question - the wimpy player plays mp3s through the jukebox and the wimpy button plays them 'inline' in the linkbit. So the button is supposed to over-ride the jukebox for mp3s. The jukebox should still work for other filetypes.

[Britmovie]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Hi -I'm afraid I don't understand your question - can you give me a bit more explanation?

From what I understand when you install you can use a plugin to get a link in the navbar. This works for the default theme but not a custom. What do I put in the navbar to make a link to the links page?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Britmovie

From what I understand when you install you can use a plugin to get a link in the navbar. This works for the default theme but not a custom. What do I put in the navbar to make a link to the links page?

I understand

There's an explanation of how to include LDM in the navbar at http://www.eirma.org/wikis/index.php/Installing_LDM. If you use the manual approach, you have to apply the change in all the styles (or set the styles up as child styles).

The option to 'auto-integrate' onto the navbar was included with the latest release (2.2.9 RC2 and onwards). Installation adds two plugins called "Links and Download Manager: Add LDM to VB navbar" and "Links and Download Manager: Add LDM Quick Search to VB navbar". These are inactive by default.

If you make one/both active (either vb/admincp/products and plugins or LDM/admin/LDM plugins), the links should get included in the navbar in any style, provided the navbar template still includes $template_hook[navbar_buttons_left] (for the main ldm link) and $template_hook[navbar_search_menu] for the quick search.

Let me know if there are problems with this - it's quite possible I've made a mistake somewhere.