Major Additions - Links and Downloads Manager

Version 2.3.0 of LDM is now the official release. This works with both VB3.7 and VB3.8. You can obtain it here

Version 2.2.8 remains available here, with limited support.

04.02.08: patch-cat.xml 'extra' uploaded - see first post for information

27.10.07: Version 2.2.8-post1 uploaded
French translation of product installer uploaded (other language translations are in the main release zip)

Remember to back up your current database tables before upgrading.

What this is and does

LDM is a general-purpose link and file manager, which handles user uploads and downloads in a flexible way. A range of media players is integrated into LDM and others are included as plugin extras. LDM is described below in the first post of this thread, which also contains a brief list of the currently-known bugs.

This release of LDM works correctly with all VB versions 3.6.x and recent versions of vbadvanced.

Documentation, screen shots, etc, are provided as a Wiki at http://www.eirma.org/wikis/index.php...nloads_Manager

Thank you to everyone who has tested, given suggestions, helped with the translations, etc.

[kylek]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

There are two problems that I've experienced. One is that Quicktime hijacks the browser. The second is a buffering problem on an individual PC. I've tried to register on your site to take a look, but am waiting for the confirmation email to complete the process. Happy to explore this with you.

Thank you Andrew, just sent pm with admin login and password.

[Kwak]

Just budding in to say that the project is looking good. Thanks all to the beta testers and the developer himself.
Look forward to the gold release for v.3.6.0.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by kylek

Thank you Andrew, just sent pm with admin login and password.

I've tried it - the three tracks you've installed play just fine for me through the jukebox, both when the embedded player is set to come up in the same window and when it's set to launch a new window (LDM->Admin->settings->launch in new window)

I tried with IE7, Firefox and Opera. They all worked. So I think the problem is on your PC. Try clearing your caches and logging out and in again.

Another point - you're not running your PC under Linux by any chance? The player doesn't work in Linux, but then it shouldn't load in the first place.

[kylek]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

I've tried it - the three tracks you've installed play just fine for me through the jukebox, both when the embedded player is set to come up in the same window and when it's set to launch a new window (LDM->Admin->settings->launch in new window)

I tried with IE7, Firefox and Opera. They all worked. So I think the problem is on your PC. Try clearing your caches and logging out and in again.

Another point - you're not running your PC under Linux by any chance? The player doesn't work in Linux, but then it shouldn't load in the first place.

While you were checking things out I just grabbed my neighbours lap top and was able to play the 3 songs with no problems so as you mentioned it must be something with my pc. I am running XP no Linux. I will try what you mentioned clearing the caches.

Thanks a lot for taking the time to check things out, really appreciated!!

[AndrewD]

I have uploaded what I hope is the official release of LDM for VB36. The same code also works on VB35.

These are the fixes/changes between the RC and this version:

Add/Edit Link
Fields that are not available to user are not displayed
Protocols
Supports mms protocol
RSS2 feed
New 'extra' - old 'local_links_external' script withdrawn
User bandwidth/download allowances
New 'extras' which illustrate how to tie allowances to user reputation and to number of posts
Bugs fixed
- htmlspecialchars_uni used consistently, avoids messing up unicode fonts
- extra information added to admin info table to help debug
- Report of 'invalid email' when editing enties submitted by unregistered user
- No longer crashes when moderator accepts entry and email notification to user is turned on
- Additional tests within 'report link' and 'send to friend' to block spammers
- linkbit_short template fixed
- Product update no longer wipes out customised templates
- VB function cache_styles() copied into LDM because of problems on some sites

Partial translation into arabic provided in the development/phrases directory

If anyone experiences problems, please report them quickly!

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Marsupilami

VB36 === VB36

Regards, Johan - Who will soon move to 3.6 now.

identical, indeed.

[Marsupilami]

Question/Request:

Can LDM be configured in such a way that file location if normally hidden, (force_redirect = 0), but certain remote, (off-site), downloads are retrieved with either a browser redirect, or a fully visible link?

Reason:
When downloading remotely stored items, the php-script gets terminated after (normally) 30 seconds, and thus giving an incomplete download.

Or is there a way around the PHP script termination cutting the remote download?

Maybe this could be done with a two step forms for retrieval of remote contents, that puts out some 1..2..3..4.. progress indicator while fetching the remote contents to a temporary (cache) storage, and thenafter initiating the download.

Application:
I want to store some of the archive items off-site. There are two reasons for this:

1. Users may want to hide their location, but still host some categories
2. I want to be able to have the site frontend on a high quality site - Which is quite expensive on storage. And thus i want to be able to store bulky archives on other sites that provide bigger and cheaper and possibly less reliable service

PS: I erased my propos post on the typo.

[xadoa]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

I have uploaded what I hope is the official release of LDM for VB36. The same code also works on VB35.

These are the fixes/changes between the RC and this version:

Add/Edit Link
Fields that are not available to user are not displayed
Protocols
Supports mms protocol
RSS2 feed
New 'extra' - old 'local_links_external' script withdrawn
User bandwidth/download allowances
New 'extras' which illustrate how to tie allowances to user reputation and to number of posts
Bugs fixed
- htmlspecialchars_uni used consistently, avoids messing up unicode fonts
- extra information added to admin info table to help debug
- Report of 'invalid email' when editing enties submitted by unregistered user
- No longer crashes when moderator accepts entry and email notification to user is turned on
- Additional tests within 'report link' and 'send to friend' to block spammers
- linkbit_short template fixed
- Product update no longer wipes out customised templates
- VB function cache_styles() copied into LDM because of problems on some sites

Partial translation into arabic provided in the development/phrases directory

If anyone experiences problems, please report them quickly!

hi Andrew,

for the limit # of download per file basis doesn't seem to work for me.. i still can click as many time as I like on one files to be downloaded .. can u have a look ? or this is fixed in the Gold version? and how to upgrade this if i already have the database installed and running with the RC version ..

thanks
XD

[Marsupilami]

Are youdownloading as an administrator or normal user?

Originally Posted by AndrewD

The limit-useraccess extra in the new LDM zip file includes a plugin, limitaccess-byreputation-plugin.xml, which modifies the download access according to the user's reputation....

...These changes do not apply to administrators...

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=2361

Originally Posted by xadoa

...for the limit # of download per file basis doesn't seem to work for me.. i still can click as many time as I like on one files to be downloaded .. can u have a look ? or this is fixed in the Gold version? and how to upgrade this if i already have the database installed and running with the RC version...

[xadoa]

one more question for AndrewD,

can you parse the code that we can enter the link as the following format?

http://password:user@www.urlweb.com/files.zip ? since the files.zip is located on a server which has the htaccess protected to the outsiders.
for the RC version, I tried with this format, i alwasy got an error as link failed

Thank you
XD