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]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Sorry for the long delay... needed my rest

Its good to see you back!

Just a reminder how nice it would be to have the new JW Player (version 4).

Also, do you think it would be possible to expose all the flash variables? The one I am most interested in is the streamscript variable that allows pseudo-streaming and extra security.

Thanks!

[Delazar]

Originally Posted by Delazar

Hi,

wenn ich versuche eine Kategorie zu erstellen, bekomme ich folgende Meldung:

Ich habe schon mal alles deinstalliert und wieder Installiert, immer noch das gleiche.

Was kann es sein?

Gru?
Delazar

Hat keiner eine Ahnung was das sein k?nnte?

[obmob]

Andrew speaks german?

Welcome!

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Delazar

Hat keiner eine Ahnung was das sein k?nnte?

I don't speak (or read) German, but I understand enough to see an error message

After you install LDM, does anything work at all, or do you always get this message?

Are you sure that you have uploaded all the files into the correct directories?

[AndrewD]

A rather unpleasant soul who has clearly been checking the LDM code in some depth has started throwing occasional SQL injection hacks at our website. So far this has not caused anything more serious than SQL errors, but it highlights a potential security bug in the LDM code. I will include the fix in the next upload - in the meantime if anyone else if being hit, let me know and I'll explain how to prevent the problem.

[derfelix]

talking about german.. just found a search bug..

difficult to explain..
the word Austria is "?sterreich" in german..

I have several links containing "?sterreich" in link title or keyword...
i do a search.. get 5 results.. ==> it works fine..

NOW i change to sortorder...
and get NO Result !!!!

Search Results
Searching for entries matching %C3%B6sterreich, looking in keywords for any words
Found 0 matching entries

Why? because in the sort order form.. there the word ?sterreich is suddenly urlencoded.. giving: %C3%B6sterreich and it tells me.. No result found for %C3%B6sterreich!!! This is true because %C3%B6sterreich does not exist.. it is ?sterreich.

here part of the page sourcecode:

<td align="right">
		<form action="local_links_search.php" method="get">
		<span class="smallfont">
		<input type="hidden" name="action" value="show" /><input type="hidden" name="page" value="1" /><input type="hidden" name="pp" value="20" /><input type="hidden" name="search" value="%C3%B6sterreich" /><input type="hidden" name="literal" value="1" /><input type="hidden" name="keys" value="1" /><input type="hidden" name="beforeafter" value="1" /> Sort by <!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE: links_catsortbit -->

<span class="smallfont">

<select class="select" name="sort" onchange="this.form.submit();" size="1" style="width:200px">
<optgroup label="Sort by">

<option value="N" >Title (ascending)</option>
<option value="n" >Title (descending)</option>
<option value="h" >Hits (overall)</option>

i think.. ( not sure.. ) it should be urlencoded when passed through the form but then urldecoded before searching the database... it should be urldecoded before being displayed...
or
not urlencoded at all.. but then i think you need it for spaces.. hmmm not sure..

Felix

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by derfelix

talking about german.. just found a search bug..

difficult to explain..
the word Austria is "?sterreich" in german..

thanks - I found a similar bug within the search/sort order code when there is a space in the search string. I suspect it is the same problem, but will check.

edited - try editing local_links_search.php, round about line 1150, there's a sequence

		$search['string'] = $vbulletin->GPC['search'];
		$search['literal'] = $vbulletin->GPC['literal'] ? $vbulletin->GPC['literal'] : 1;
		$search['keys']  = $vbulletin->GPC['keys'];
		$search['desc']  = $vbulletin->GPC['desc'];

change the first line:

		$search['string'] = urldecode($vbulletin->GPC['search']);
		$search['literal'] = $vbulletin->GPC['literal'] ? $vbulletin->GPC['literal'] : 1;
		$search['keys']  = $vbulletin->GPC['keys'];
		$search['desc']  = $vbulletin->GPC['desc'];

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by RikiB

Its good to see you back!

Just a reminder how nice it would be to have the new JW Player (version 4).

Also, do you think it would be possible to expose all the flash variables? The one I am most interested in is the streamscript variable that allows pseudo-streaming and extra security.

Thanks!

I've run a few tests with the new JW player, and got it doing the basics with LDM. I can't figure out how to make the streamscript variable work - seems it should accept the standard ldm streamer, but nothing happens. However, file=LDM streamer script does work fine for both video and music.

I'm sure I can expose the rest of the flash variables via a plugin

[RikiB]

Ahh great. I was hoping to find a way that prevented people from downloading an FLV file.

The only way I have discovered to protect FLV files from download is to pay for a real streaming service which is very expensive. There is also lightppd but Im not sure if that would even help.

Perhaps this is impossible currently, let me know if this will be a waste of time.

Thanks again!

[vbboarder]

Hi Andrew, welcome back from your vacation/ break! Hope you are well rested.
I have 3 bugs to report:

1. When editing an entry, the user is able to upload another file (the file is saved in the upload directory), but the new file does not show (file is not linked to in the entry) and his upload allowance is not updated.

2. The category of a forum is not replaced in the phrase when using {4} in ldm_thread_create_body. Instead, the LDM database name is always shown.

3. The "Add LDM to VB navbar" plugin link does not work if vbAdvanced is installed and not located at the forum root. Solution, find:

'<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="local_links.php">'

And replace that with:

'<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="' . $vbulletin->options['bburl'] . '/local_links.php">'