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 adrianus

Excuse me for asking:

Is this some kind of gallery mod? Because it looks like a gallery to me (and I'm looking for a gallery mod now).

What is the advantages and disadvantages compared to gallery like photopost, photoplog, and vb Image Gallery?

thanks

You can certainly use this as a gallery mod, but it hasn't been tweaked for that purpose. I don't use the photo hacks you mention - they may well have photo-friendly features that this one does not. The virtue of LDM is that it is very configurable and you can use the one hack for all different types of upload/download - so you could combine a photo library with a music library.

[efil]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Go to your forums home page and down the bottom, you see 'What's Going On'. Select the 'Currently Active Users' link immediately underneath, and you get a list of what everyone is doing. If someone is using LDM, you'll see a listing like this:

Ok.

I thought that there is an option to see Who's Online in LDM page.

I think it might be very useful.

[Ophelia]

Hi Andrew.. found a possible bug, not sure if it's been mentioned.

I hope I can explain okay.

I go into the main permissions of the download manager and set up the permissions. For can_access_link I set it so that everyone but COPPA can access links.

I then go into a category and edit it's user group permissions. I don't do anything different with can_access_link, but I do change other things in this area.

Now when I go into either the main permissions or back into that categories usergroup permissions, the can_access_link states that it's been customised (US spelling of this word by the way is customized) in this category and are highlighted yellow, but it hasn't. When you compare, both are set up so that the only one who can't access is COPPA. It's doing this on several different fields:

can_see_protected_links_on_portal
can_rate_link
can_mark_link
can_report_link
can_send_tofriend
can_view_hits
can_view_names

None of these were altered in any way and are the exact same when compared to the main permissions.

[Phalynx]

I'm also very interested in custom fields, waiting for 2.2.8

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Ophelia

Hi Andrew.. found a possible bug, not sure if it's been mentioned.

I hope I can explain okay.

I go into the main permissions of the download manager and set up the permissions. For can_access_link I set it so that everyone but COPPA can access links.

I then go into a category and edit it's user group permissions. I don't do anything different with can_access_link, but I do change other things in this area.

Now when I go into either the main permissions or back into that categories usergroup permissions, the can_access_link states that it's been customised (US spelling of this word by the way is customized) in this category and are highlighted yellow, but it hasn't. When you compare, both are set up so that the only one who can't access is COPPA. It's doing this on several different fields:

can_see_protected_links_on_portal
can_rate_link
can_mark_link
can_report_link
can_send_tofriend
can_view_hits
can_view_names

None of these were altered in any way and are the exact same when compared to the main permissions.

Thanks, Ophelia. I've half suspected that this bug existed in the customisation logic for some time, but have not been able to prove it one way or another. Now you give me an incentive to look more carefully.

Edited - bug confirmed. Will fix, provided you accept that the spelling of customised is customised

[esck]

I've tried the .module files you kindly provided, but for some reason they don't appear even though they are active, and I have some categories and test files uploaded :S

Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong? I'm using vb 3.6.5 and vbadvanced 2.2.1

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by esck

I've tried the .module files you kindly provided, but for some reason they don't appear even though they are active, and I have some categories and test files uploaded :S

Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong? I'm using vb 3.6.5 and vbadvanced 2.2.1

I can take a look if you like - it isn't easy to suggest a solution otherwise. Send me a PM if you wish.

[benjaminkramer]

Hi,
my web server only supports to upload files up to 8MB, How can I upload larger files?
How can I create local file downloads?
I uploaded the files to /mnt/jd2/05/985/00000000/htdocs/new/upload/ana_lpz

My settings for:

upload_dir:
/mnt/jd2/05/985/00000000/htdocs/new/upload

When I set

local_file_root : yes
local_file_root_prefix: upload

I get an error that the links are temporaly not available...

please help me....

Thx

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by benjaminkramer

Hi,
my web server only supports to upload files up to 8MB, How can I upload larger files?

LDM's 'upload' feature can only work within the limits set by your web server. So, if you want to use it to handle the uploads, then you have to get the web server configured to accept larger files. Beware that this is not always reliable.

If your server is running Apache, then the parameters are:
* upload_max_filesize
* post_max_size
Check that post_max_size has a larger value than upload_max_filesize.

If you can't get these parameters changed, then large file uploads have to be handled using (e.g.) an FTP client, and this is separate from LDM.

Originally Posted by benjaminkramer

How can I create local file downloads?
I uploaded the files to /mnt/jd2/05/985/00000000/htdocs/new/upload/ana_lpz

My settings for:

upload_dir:
/mnt/jd2/05/985/00000000/htdocs/new/upload


When I set

local_file_root : yes
local_file_root_prefix: upload

I get an error that the links are temporaly not available...


please help me....

Thx

Your combination of local_file_root and local_file_root_prefix are telling LDM that all the files it will handle will be stored in the directory tree /upload.

I assume that you manually uploaded the file to /mnt/jd2/05/985/00000000/htdocs/new/upload/ana_lpz? This not part of the directory structure.

Also, your setting for upload_dir means that LDM will place uploads in subdirectories of /upload/mnt/jd2/05/985/00000000/htdocs/new/upload


I suggest you set:

local_file_root : yes
local_file_root_prefix: /mnt/jd2/05/985/00000000/htdocs/new/
upload_dir: upload

and start again

[AndrewD]

Please keep an eye on the second post in this thread for details on known bugs.

Currently, these bugs have been confirmed in 2.2.7 (and probably existed in 2.2.6 also):
- Wimpy WASP player doesn't work
- There is a problem with icon display with some vbadvanced modules when the vbadvanced cmps_index file is not in the forum directory
- There is a problem with extra category setting/permission configurations erroneously being reported when you edit a category after previously adjusting some of its control settings/permissions