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.

[myrhoto]

Oh and is there a way we can upload multiple files at one time? Like upload five songs for one listing.

Maybe you can but I just can't find it.

[derfelix]

Hi andrew..
went through a series of test and was wondering:
its definetely NOT a bug but..
i can disable some of the bbcode in description.. like images but not html or php or quotes ...
actually i only want user to be able to use smilies.. bold, italic fonts etc.. but not the stuff breaking the layout...
so I only activated the smilies..
i limited description to 500 chars..
i tested adding an image.. (it will just give the url) thats fine..

but the user still can add php code, html code, indent, list and quotes.... (which looks horrible)

i did a str_replace for all those tags.. but my question.. is there a vbul native way to do that.. or something else more elegant?

Felix

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by myrhoto

I can change the title of the New thread, to be "New File Added: (and then the name of the file?) "

vb/admincp/languages/search in phrases. Find the phrase called ldm_thread_create_title. By default, the phrase contents are {1}. Change this to New File Added: {1}

See http://www.eirma.org/wikis/index.php..._Announcements for a full explanation

Originally Posted by myrhoto

Oh and is there a way we can upload multiple files at one time? Like upload five songs for one listing.

ldm/admin/settings/Category and Entry Creation and Editing/allow_add_multi.

Only one point - LDM has an optional flash-based uploader (release/extras/swfupload), which gives a progress bar for uploads. This only works with the 1-file-at-a-time add entry page.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by derfelix

Hi andrew..
went through a series of test and was wondering:
its definetely NOT a bug but..
i can disable some of the bbcode in description.. like images but not html or php or quotes ...
actually i only want user to be able to use smilies.. bold, italic fonts etc.. but not the stuff breaking the layout...
so I only activated the smilies..
i limited description to 500 chars..
i tested adding an image.. (it will just give the url) thats fine..

but the user still can add php code, html code, indent, list and quotes.... (which looks horrible)

i did a str_replace for all those tags.. but my question.. is there a vbul native way to do that.. or something else more elegant?


Felix

You mean that you want the bbocdes removing from the description (on display or on entry?), so that it doesn't read something like this:

hello [ code ] this is a coloured text [ / code]

but rather

hello this is a coloured text

[myrhoto]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

vb/admincp/languages/search in phrases. Find the phrase called ldm_thread_create_title. By default, the phrase contents are {1}. Change this to New File Added: {1}

See http://www.eirma.org/wikis/index.php..._Announcements for a full explanation



ldm/admin/settings/Category and Entry Creation and Editing/allow_add_multi.

Only one point - LDM has an optional flash-based uploader (release/extras/swfupload), which gives a progress bar for uploads. This only works with the 1-file-at-a-time add entry page.

Great figured that out.

One other thing, I tried loading this extra swfupload, and I went to upload a file, and it went all the way to 100% and then gave me An error occurred in the upload. Try again later., and then says
Server did not accept upload & file rejected. Won't let me upload files til I disable the plugin. Any idea why that happened? It's not real important for me to have but it would be nice for other people!

[IR15H]

I've noticed a minor bug with profile_ldmactivity.

On a fresh install of vb 3.7.3 with LDM 2.2.9 P3, with profile_ldmactivity set to "No".



To reproduce;

1. Set profile_ldmactivity to "Yes", hit update, then set it to "No" and update again.
2. Navigate to a user's profile.

Additionally, would it be possible to add a conditional whereby if profile_ldmactivity is set to yes, but a user has no recent hits and/or entries then something is displayed such as "No Recent Hit/Entries" (or maybe not display the block at all), rather than have an empty field?



Concerning tags, would it possible to make it so that multi-worded tags are permitted, separated by commas, as is the way with regular vbulletin?. Also, at site/forum/local_links_admin.php?set=keywords, would it possible to make the keywords read left to right, rather than top to bottom?

[abroad]

does this work with vbseo?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by IR15H

I've noticed a minor bug with profile_ldmactivity.

On a fresh install of vb 3.7.3 with LDM 2.2.9 P3, with profile_ldmactivity set to "No".


To reproduce;

1. Set profile_ldmactivity to "Yes", hit update, then set it to "No" and update again.
2. Navigate to a user's profile.

Additionally, would it be possible to add a conditional whereby if profile_ldmactivity is set to yes, but a user has no recent hits and/or entries then something is displayed such as "No Recent Hit/Entries" (or maybe not display the block at all), rather than have an empty field?


Concerning tags, would it possible to make it so that multi-worded tags are permitted, separated by commas, as is the way with regular vbulletin?. Also, at site/forum/local_links_admin.php?set=keywords, would it possible to make the keywords read left to right, rather than top to bottom?

All things are possible! The profile integration needs rethinking, because the vb interfaces have changed substantially since this was first written. Tags did not exists in vb when they were added to LDM, and so on.

Thanks for the prompts.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by abroad

does this work with vbseo?

Yes, people have this working well. There is a section in the online wiki describing vbseo integration. However, I do not have access to vbseo, so I can't debug problems for you.

[TsirhCitna]

Request: Is there a way to have the page title of View Comments and Ratings to have the link name in the page title for better SEO?