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.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by EasyTarget

ok, I was able to locate the setting in the database and remove it so that now in the administration it shows local file root is set to no and there is no local file root prefix, however I still get this message even though the directory does exist:

Are you sure that you no longer need to define document_root? The new error message is saying that it thinks the directory /forum/files is really a base level directory on your server, when I think you want it to be relative to the web site.

When you change local_file_root, it's a good idea first to clear the upload_dir setting and then reset it back the way you want after the new local_file_root has been accepted. That way, the code only needs to think about one thing at once.

[EasyTarget]

ok figured out that it kept resetting the local file root to yes so it kept behaving funny. Once I editted just that field to no then updated the other fields it seems to be working fine.

[Demon fox]

Hey is it possible to make it so that categorys have there own upload folder, so when a user uploads a file in a category it uploads into the folder set for it?

[josiespencer]

AndrewD, I am thinking of using the blockaccess-byposts-plugin.xml plugin - can you explain a little bit more about this change in the code:

// --- Within the last XX hours - set to 0 to require posts over all time
$LAST_HOURS = 0;

Does this set a time measurement before the new user can download new posts? And what is the maximum value it can be? Or did I totally misread this parameter?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Demon fox

Hey is it possible to make it so that categorys have there own upload folder, so when a user uploads a file in a category it uploads into the folder set for it?

I imagine that this is a simple change, but...

The code currently uses the upload folder to specify the *base* directory where uploads are stored. Individual uploads are placed in subdirectories according to /your/user/ids/digits (e.g. /uploaddir/1/3/2 for userid 132.

The trivial change to the code would continue to use this process but with different base directories for categories that override the default.

If you want all the files for a category in a single directory, that would be a bigger change, and in my view not a good idea.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by josiespencer

AndrewD, I am thinking of using the blockaccess-byposts-plugin.xml plugin - can you explain a little bit more about this change in the code:

// --- Within the last XX hours - set to 0 to require posts over all time
$LAST_HOURS = 0;

Does this set a time measurement before the new user can download new posts? And what is the maximum value it can be? Or did I totally misread this parameter?

This plugin prevents users from accessing LDM *at all* unless they have made the indicated number of posts on your main VB board in the immediately previous $LAST_POST hours.

The default setting for $LAST_HOURS=0 means that the calculation is done over all the history of your board, i.e. that number of posts *ever*. If you set LAST_HOURS to 24, then it will look at the user's posts to VB forums during the last 24 hours and so on.

[Ophelia]

Just installed the newest version Andrew and setting it up now. Thank you so much for all your hard work on this Andrew! I know we are going to be in heaven with the newest features. I'm already seeing some things that are going to really help (outside of the things you knew about!)

Here is something that we would *love* to have.

Force comment on download.

[josiespencer]

Ophelia, there is a must_comment_and_rate setting. It has the following description:

If set, when users comment on an entry, they must also rate it. Otherwise, comments can be added without giving a rating.

But I am guessing you don't want comments to be optional at all, huh?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Ophelia

Just installed the newest version Andrew and setting it up now. Thank you so much for all your hard work on this Andrew! I know we are going to be in heaven with the newest features. I'm already seeing some things that are going to really help (outside of the things you knew about!)

Here is something that we would *love* to have.

Force comment on download.

Noted - all well with you?

[digital3]

Call me a dummy but why do I have this installed and configured properly yet when submitting a new file I only see an option to link to it and not one to upload it using the attachment system? If I have to link to an existing attached file in another post this isn't going to do me a lot of good. I'm sure I must be missing something here because someone would have surely brought this up by now.