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Version: 2.2.1, by AndrewD AndrewD is offline
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Released: 06-25-2005 Last Update: 05-10-2006 Installs: 337
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LDM extends VBulletin to manage a library of documents, files and links to other web sites. Documents can be stored on your own web site, stored on your server separate from the web site, uploaded by your user community, or held somewhere else altogether. So you can use LDM to provide your user community with access to your own files and allow them to share files with each other.

12/08/06 - Versions that work with vb36 are available and supported in the VB36 thread. Version 2.2.1, which works with VB 3.5 but not with VB 3.6, remains available here.

Thanks to everyone who has helped with all the design, testing, etc.
Translations are provided (thanks dLutt and LeeWicked) into German, (thanks to Allan) into French, and (thanks to Hugo) into Spanish. Harry1951 has handled the Dutch translation.

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Full details and instructions are available as a Wiki at http://www.eirma.org/wikis/index.php...nloads_Manager

LDM installs as a VBulletin product. There are no modifications required to standard VB code.

Basically - upload php files and run the installer through VB's Product installer. No changes needed to VB code. Remember to BACKUP YOUR DATABASE. By default, LDM prefixes its database tables 'local_'. Edit the configuration file, local_links_init.php, if you need/wish to change this.

LDM can handle an essentially unlimited number of categories and nested subcategories, and an unlimited number of entries (hyperlinks or downloadable files). Each entry can be placed in one or several categories. Categories can have styles. Descriptions and titles can optionally include BBcodes, smilies, images and html, giving the possibility to add images, colouring, etc. File types can be flagged using icons and individual entries can also have associated thumbnail images.

Standards templates are provided for libraries of links, files, documents, and photographs.

Users can offer comments and rate the links/downloads. Each user is allowed one rating and many comments per entry, and can freely edit these if they change their mind.

Permission to use specific features is established via the product's admin page, where the administrator specifies which usergroups can add and edit entries, comment and rate these entries, moderate, etc.

By default, all entries are visible to all users. You can restrict visibility/access to links and categories by using the permissions masks from your board's forums.

Moderation of new entries is available but turned off by default.

Users can report bad links to the relevant moderators/administrators.

Each user can flag links as his/her "Favourites".

Modules are provided for VBAdvanced.

Hooks are provided in suitable places in LDM and sample plugins are included in the release (see extras directory), for example to integrate with ID3 tags in mp3 files, for slideshows, to autocreate new threads in your forums, etc.

Plus much more.

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Old 02-17-2006, 11:23 PM
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I am trying to up load videos .. and can't get the system to let me make the file size large enough ? any suggestions?
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Following on from that .. I've had a look at the db and the "local_linkscat" table is missing the fields "styleid" and "catsortorder" ..

Some things missing from local_links_admininclude.php perhaps?
Hi AndrewD

Those 2 fields are definitely missing from the local_linkscat within the beta, and they were there in 2.1.0. I know you've changed a lot in the local_links_admininclude.php but I would think the system needs to know what style and order to show a cat .. ?
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Old 02-18-2006, 04:56 AM
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I am trying to up load videos .. and can't get the system to let me make the file size large enough ? any suggestions?
How big are you trying to go? as far as I know, uploads via web pages really become unreliable (whatever settings you provide) at around 4-10 megabytes. I'm not an expert, but I imagine that files bigger than this really need to uploaded via an ftp utility.

Having said that, these are the settings you should be looking for:

in php.ini:

upload_max_filesize and post_max_sizecode limit the maximum size of files that can be handled using the upload feature of LDM, irrespective of the limits set within vBulletin and LDM. post_max_sizecode should have a larger value than upload_max_filesize

in te vb admincp/Attachments/Filetypes

maximum size per filetype.
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local_file_root: indicates whether files are located in terms of their position on your web site ('web space') or the raw server ('server space')
local_file_root_prefix: force files to be in a particular part of 'web space' or 'server space'
upload_dir: the specific directory in which the uploads are stored, relative to the constraints imposed by the above

Example 1: your upload directory, uploads, is a top-level directory in http://yoursite, ie all uploads will be stored inside http://yoursite/uploads -> set local_file_root to 0, leave local_file_root_prefix blank and set upload_dir to /uploads

Example 2: your upload directory, uploads, is to be kept outside your website so that curious users can't get at it. You want it to be a subdirectory of /data on the the computer which is acting as server. All local documents that you will 'serve' to your user community will also be held in subdirectories of /data: set local_file_root to 1, set local_file_root_profix to /data and set upload_dir to /uploads



Two ways: Either use standard BBcodes [img] within the descriptions or title. Or set link_image_size to a non-zero value, in which case the link entry form will extend to include an additional item, which is the image to accompany the entry. In the second case, your web server must have the GD2 library available.
Hi Andrew.

I'm getting an error trying to upload files as a test user.

I have my local_root set to 0
My local_file_root_prefix is set to /images/linksfiles
I'm trying to set my upload directory to /uploads (being a sub directory of images/linksfiles) but I got an invalid directory error so I ended up leaving it blank thinking it would dump the images into the linksfiles folder.

No problems linking off the server and everything is working well...AWESOME piece of work. I have my permissions set so registered users can do their own uploads. When I come in as a test user and try to upload I get the error failed to move file

Any thoughts? All the folder permissions are set to 777 so its got me stuffed. I think I'm misunderstanding the config of the folders but not sure.

Thanks for your help....This has made my day
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Old 02-18-2006, 12:05 PM
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Hi Andrew.

I'm getting an error trying to upload files as a test user.

I have my local_root set to 0
My local_file_root_prefix is set to /images/linksfiles
I'm trying to set my upload directory to /uploads (being a sub directory of images/linksfiles) but I got an invalid directory error so I ended up leaving it blank thinking it would dump the images into the linksfiles folder.

No problems linking off the server and everything is working well...AWESOME piece of work. I have my permissions set so registered users can do their own uploads. When I come in as a test user and try to upload I get the error failed to move file

Any thoughts? All the folder permissions are set to 777 so its got me stuffed. I think I'm misunderstanding the config of the folders but not sure.

Thanks for your help....This has made my day
I tried your settings on my PC and they work fine, so I suspect that it's something to do with file and directory permissions.

Maybe you can try this for me and let me know the results (by PM preferably)

Edit includes/local_link_include.php and look for the line
Code:
if (!move_uploaded_file($GPC['tmp_name'], $fullfile)) return(NN);
Take a copy of this file and temporaily edit those lines so that they read
Code:
if (!move_uploaded_file($GPC['tmp_name'], $fullfile)) {
echo 'move failed :'.$GPC['tmp_name'].':'.$fullfile.':<br />';
exit;  
}
run a test and take note of the message that goes on the screen

Then replace the original file.
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Old 02-18-2006, 12:43 PM
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2.12 always in beta?
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2.12 always in beta?
Not forever - but there's work going on behind the scenes and I don't want to launch another version (which will be the final beta) until it's all done and tested. Another week or so, depending on how my main job goes.
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Hi AndrewD, I've been using your only script for file transfer over the past year. everything works out best ..but the only problem I'm facing is that, the script doesn't have HTTP 206 Support...without HTTP 206 Support ..if my download were broken I'm unable to resume the portion I've missed during my download. I hope you will spend little time working on this. Thank you!
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Old 02-18-2006, 04:59 PM
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Hi AndrewD, I've been using your only script for file transfer over the past year. everything works out best ..but the only problem I'm facing is that, the script doesn't have HTTP 206 Support...without HTTP 206 Support ..if my download were broken I'm unable to resume the portion I've missed during my download. I hope you will spend little time working on this. Thank you!
Yes, I'm happy to add this to the list - can you point me at any scripts that do handle the partial content response?
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Old 02-18-2006, 09:02 PM
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How big are you trying to go? as far as I know, uploads via web pages really become unreliable (whatever settings you provide) at around 4-10 megabytes. I'm not an expert, but I imagine that files bigger than this really need to uploaded via an ftp utility.

Having said that, these are the settings you should be looking for:

in php.ini:

upload_max_filesize and post_max_sizecode limit the maximum size of files that can be handled using the upload feature of LDM, irrespective of the limits set within vBulletin and LDM. post_max_sizecode should have a larger value than upload_max_filesize

in te vb admincp/Attachments/Filetypes

maximum size per filetype.

I try that in php.ini .. but

If IT is better to upload via FTP fine , but how do I still index them in this system
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