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.

[Ophelia]

Andrew,

I know you've addressed this already, but we are having the security token issue.

I don't remember editing any files, so is there a way to check this? Right now we are getting the error when we try to upload.

[vbboarder]

The entries listing in What's New page is above the limit set in LDM settings. This is probably due to the setting days_seen_on_portal overriding links_seen_on_portal.

[vbboarder]

The JW player incorrectly handles swf files. The flash/ video will auto loop (by default this should not happen), the time does not show for swf files with time, the player controls do not work - can play flash/ video, but can NOT pause, forward/ rewind, or interact with controls created by the swf itself. This is not a bug with LDM, VB or even Adobe Flash player, it's a limitation with the JW player - tested with JW player 4.0 in Firefox2 & IE7.

Solution: disable swf from all media players in LDM until JW player can play swf (Windows, Quicktime, & Realplayer also can't correctly play it). When the user clicks on the entry's title link or download entry image link, the flash/ video will open up in a new tab/ window and play correctly using Adobe's Flash player (if installed in the browser).

Fix needed: The JW player will still show for swf files (even if no media players have swf set in LDM) when listing a category's entries. This entices the users to play the file using the JW player, which it can not do. Andrew, can you please disable showing the player for swf files when listing a category's entries?

[obmob]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

The problem is in the links_catbit_extras template, which is used to build a set of messages which are normally placed in that white row. If there is nothing to show, the template really should return nothing, but the way it's currently written it returns an empty div container. Take a look at the template if you wish - you would have to repeat all the conditional tests inside the div as a master conditional outside the div.



If I'm understanding you correctly, this happens when the display_order changes. You can get rid of it by clearing the links_linkseparator template.



You are using the'Brief' category template, which is links_catbit_brief. Include $catdesc in it somewhere.

Thanks, now i have something to do on sunday XD

[RikiB]

When I try and add a link from my wowza streaming server I get this

Sorry - unable to handle protocol rtmp://

Is there a way to access the streamer variable in the JW player?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Ophelia

Andrew,

I know you've addressed this already, but we are having the security token issue.

I don't remember editing any files, so is there a way to check this? Right now we are getting the error when we try to upload.

Main thing to check:

- Have you (or maybe have I) at some point in the past edited any of the LDM templates used on your site and forgotten to 'revert' them?

Are you using the LDM flash-based swfuploader extra for handling uploads or just the standard form-based uploader?

Will take a look at your site if you want.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by RikiB

When I try and add a link from my wowza streaming server I get this

Sorry - unable to handle protocol rtmp://

Is there a way to access the streamer variable in the JW player?

That's right, LDM is not currently configured to understand how to handle and deliver rtmp:// protocol, i.e. it doesn't know how to act as an rtmp server. I've no idea if this is a simple or very complex protocol to handle.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by vbboarder

The JW player incorrectly handles swf files. The flash/ video will auto loop (by default this should not happen), the time does not show for swf files with time, the player controls do not work - can play flash/ video, but can NOT pause, forward/ rewind, or interact with controls created by the swf itself. This is not a bug with LDM, VB or even Adobe Flash player, it's a limitation with the JW player - tested with JW player 4.0 in Firefox2 & IE7.

Solution: disable swf from all media players in LDM until JW player can play swf (Windows, Quicktime, & Realplayer also can't correctly play it). When the user clicks on the entry's title link or download entry image link, the flash/ video will open up in a new tab/ window and play correctly using Adobe's Flash player (if installed in the browser).


Fix needed: The JW player will still show for swf files (even if no media players have swf set in LDM) when listing a category's entries. This entices the users to play the file using the JW player, which it can not do. Andrew, can you please disable showing the player for swf files when listing a category's entries?

There's a couple of places to make this change.

Inline players

If you are using the JWplayer extra to play media inline, then got to vb/admincp/products and players/plugin manager

Edit the Links and Downloads Manager - JWPlayer Addons plugin attached to hook ldm_linkbit_create.

Change line:

if ($links_defaults['inlineJWplayer_active'] and in_array($linkfiletype, array("mp3", "flv", "swf", "mp4", "m4v", ))) {

to

if ($links_defaults['inlineJWplayer_active'] and in_array($linkfiletype, array("mp3", "flv", "mp4", "m4v", ))) {

and delete the line

	case "swf":

Save

Edit the Links and Downloads Manager - JWPlayer Addons plugin attached to hook ldm_linkbit_gettypebit.

Change the line

	if (in_array($linkfiletype, array("mp3", "flv", "swf", "m4v", "mp4",))) {

to

	if (in_array($linkfiletype, array("mp3", "flv", "m4v", "mp4",))) {

Save

Standard players

Go to ldm/admin/media players. Find JWflvPlayer. Remove swf from the list of filetypes handled and save.

[vbboarder]

Thanks for the fix Andrew!

[Origin2]

I'm getting this error when trying to access any of your files "Codification Error" "Bad compression"....
I can't even edit any settings or access anything