Major Additions - DownloadsII

There's a vB4 version of this mod available: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=231427

DownloadsII

DownloadsII is a download database that integrates into vBulletin. It allows you to upload files, add images to them, create categories, link to external files - and more. It is very flexible and has many options.

Because a lot of people keep on asking this:
This mod works with any version of vBulletin 3.7.x and 3.8.x!

It's also coded 100% XHTML 1.0 Transitional valid, just like vBulletin itself.



Instructions & Support

You can find an installation manual in the zip package (Readme-Install.txt).

We try to answer most questions asked in this thread. Please don't send any pm's if we don't ask for them, as we said we try to give a high level of support in this thread. Don't forget to click the install link, so you will receive important update notifications.

Screenshots & Live demo

At the bottom of this post, you can find 6 screenshots of the front-end and back-end (AdminCP part) of the DownloadsII software. You can see the newest version in action at the Minatica.be Downloads (Dutch).

Changelog (version 5.1.2)

Jelle

• Backported CSRF security fix from the vB 4 release
• Added permission check for Update Counters
• Fixed PHP warnings when running PHP 5.3
• Removed the imagecreatefrombmp() function. It doesn't exist.
• Added permission check for rating submissions

You can find all the changelogs of this and older versions here.

Help!!! I can't upload large files??

This is probably the second most asked question. Have a look at this post for the solution.

It doesn't work with GARS?!

If you also use the latest version of GARS, you will get the "Fields marked in RED must be filled in!" error when uploading a file. I provided a fix here on the GARS forums.

Addons

We are offering 3 addons for this mod at the moment (have a look at the bottom of this post for them). DownloadsII contains 5 hook locations for the vBulletin plugin systems, so you can add extra functionality without file edits.

Do you want to help expanding DownloadsII (if you are a coder)? Check out this post!

Notes

• ecDownloads Buddy is NOT compatible with this version. If you are using the Buddy, you should UNINSTALL it before installing DownloadsII ver 5.x.x. The Buddy's features are now integrated into DownloadsII.
• DownloadsII is a direct derivative work from Ron1n's ecDownloads.

Addons

• DownloadsII ver 5.0 vbAdvanced Add-On
• DownloadsII PM moderation notification
• DownloadsII Create New Thread Add-On
• DownloadsII Simple RSS Feed Add-On
• DownloadsII[Add-On] - Upload Rules

[hugh_]

Since upgrading from php4 to php5 I keep getting the following errors and very substantially the value of increasing wait_timeout and max_allowed_packet in my.cnf hasn't helped. Any thoughts? All help gratefully received of course...

Hugh

ps: IPs removed.

Database error in vBulletin 3.5.4:

Invalid SQL:

INSERT IGNORE INTO session
(sessionhash, userid, host, idhash, lastactivity, location, styleid, languageid, loggedin, inforum, inthread, incalendar, badlocation, useragent, bypass)
VALUES
('aefad92623ce39d0197d87f57e914a60', 18587, 'xxx', '4164986e4a5501b76beee7e032910783', 1199823363, '/vbulletin/downloads.php?do=file&id=333&act=down', 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; SIMBAR=0; MEGAUPLOAD 2.0)', 0);

MySQL Error : MySQL server has gone away Error Number : 2006
Date : Tuesday, January 8th 2008 @ 02:37:58 PM
Script : http://www.xxx.com/vbulletin/downloa...d=333&act=down
Referrer : http://www.xxx.com/vbulletin/downloads.php?do=cat&id=19
IP Address : xxx
Username : xxx
Classname : vB_Database

[maidos]

beside what do u think about the feature to report dead links?

[uydudoktoru]

hello ! Upload Your Files To External Server setting ?

[RS_Jelle]

Originally Posted by jimjam

Suddenly we are getting file not found errors. The files are physically there, the downloads folder is 777 and all the files are 666. We installed VBSEO at around the time the downloads stopped working. Whould this have anything to do with some of the files not being found?

Thanks in anticipation

Disable vBSEO and try again
I don't use vBSEO myself, so I don't know how it works with DownloadsII.

Originally Posted by drpeppper

hi i just moved servers. all of the download links are telling me Error: File Not Found.
I know its correct because all of the thumbnails work, its just the download link to actual files.

Can someone please help?

Check the chmod of the downloads folder and ec_tmp subfolder. They should be 777 (writable). The files inside of the downloads folder should have a 666 chmod normally.

Originally Posted by cellow

Hi DownloadsII Users

If i change a Users nickname in vbulletin, the database tables of DownloadsII did not change. the column
dl_downloads.user

UPDATE `vb3_dl_downloads` SET `user` = "xyz" WHERE `userid` = 123

or
dl_files.uploader

UPDATE `vb3_dl_files` SET `uploader` = "xyz" WHERE `uploaderid` = 123

or
dl_comments.author

UPDATE `vb3_dl_comments` SET `author` = "xyz" WHERE `authorid` = 123

or
dl_images.uploader

UPDATE `vb3_dl_images` SET `uploader` = "xyz" WHERE `uploaderid` = 123

are existing with the old "username".

Is there any possibility to mass-update / mass-sync all nicknames in the DownloadsII tables with the actually existing nicknames in the vbulletin user table?


Thank you 4 ur support

There's no mass update method for this at the moment. Running those queries manually is an option.

We should place a plugin in the AdminCP so it runs those queries after a username update.
[high]* RS_Jelle notes it down [/high]

Originally Posted by loki-sama

I have this Mod, but I have noticed something with happening with it. I have it set up so that a member with less then 30 posts can only download one file per day. The thing is, I've notice that there are some people that are able to beat this and are downloading multiple files in a single day. How are they doing this, and how can I stop this from happening?

EDIT:
Also I have noticed that whenever we add a file, some files become unapproved, or unpinned. Is there a way to stop this as well?

1. Check the "Use strict daily download limits." usergroup setting. Probably it's set to No and the amount of allowed MB's to download is a higher value (or unlimited, -1).
2. That's controlled by the "Can Avoid Moderation Queue" usergroup permission.

Originally Posted by se_p800

I know the amount of questions is accumulating so I am unlikely to get a answer, but is there anyway to get the thumbnails bigger?

Thanks

That's not possible at the moment. You can change it in downloads.php, but this doesn't affect old thumbnails then (and you can't recount them at the moment like vB attachment thumbnails).

Originally Posted by hugh_

Since upgrading from php4 to php5 I keep getting the following errors and very substantially the value of increasing wait_timeout and max_allowed_packet in my.cnf hasn't helped. Any thoughts? All help gratefully received of course...

Hugh

ps: IPs removed.

Database error in vBulletin 3.5.4:

Invalid SQL:

INSERT IGNORE INTO session
(sessionhash, userid, host, idhash, lastactivity, location, styleid, languageid, loggedin, inforum, inthread, incalendar, badlocation, useragent, bypass)
VALUES
('aefad92623ce39d0197d87f57e914a60', 18587, 'xxx', '4164986e4a5501b76beee7e032910783', 1199823363, '/vbulletin/downloads.php?do=file&id=333&act=down', 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; SIMBAR=0; MEGAUPLOAD 2.0)', 0);

MySQL Error : MySQL server has gone away Error Number : 2006
Date : Tuesday, January 8th 2008 @ 02:37:58 PM
Script : http://www.xxx.com/vbulletin/downloa...d=333&act=down
Referrer : http://www.xxx.com/vbulletin/downloads.php?do=cat&id=19
IP Address : xxx
Username : xxx
Classname : vB_Database

That query isn't created by DownloadsII, but by vBulletin (on each page). It's a server configuration problem.

Some documentation: http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/m...mysql_goneaway

[ezurick]

Installed and GREAT mod! I got a question...

I want to allow only a certain usergroup to use this... I call "Privleged Members" which is usergroupid=9. And I only want that usergroup to see the download link in the navbar... Is there way to put an if statement in there so only they see the link? Thanks...

[RS_Jelle]

Originally Posted by ezurick

Installed and GREAT mod! I got a question...

I want to allow only a certain usergroup to use this... I call "Privleged Members" which is usergroupid=9. And I only want that usergroup to see the download link in the navbar... Is there way to put an if statement in there so only they see the link? Thanks...

Use this:

<if condition="is_member_of($bbuseruserinfo, 9)">
<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="downloads.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[ecdownloads_downloads]</a></td>
</if>

For multiple usergroups:

<if condition="is_member_of($bbuseruserinfo, 9, 6, 5)">
<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="downloads.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[ecdownloads_downloads]</a></td>
</if>

[taheri6]

[EDIT]
Problem Solved, my host messed up NTFS file permissions so the mod could no longer read teh files using the ANON user

[rizelim]

sorry!!!

[lukedono]

i don't know if any one asked this, but i'm getting an error in the adminCP.
i get this:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ']', expecting ',' or ';' in www/forum/admincp/downloadadmin.php on line 287

when i got to Categories, Import, and Downloads. is there a fix for this?

[dtv100]

today we find to errors .

cant upload any file and we dont have idea why .

also if you look in attach pic thats the error browser show now.

any idea what where to look .


things that change since last week we replaces apache with litespeed and turn off zend and update gars .



update:

I restore site to before I update gars and now is working again but still get error in attachment.