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.

[itsblack]

Thank you Andrew! It's great, now there's no more allowance problem. I have updated the chinese translation (although there are only a few new phrases).

I have some little suggestions:

1. About the vba moudule ldm_new_thumb. Now it uses the thumbnails which has been created. Unfortunately the thumb size I used in LDM is much bigger than which I assigned in vba moudule before. So it will be great, if you add a switch to let people choose which method (use the exist thumbs or use the former method) they would like to use.

2. The new Rating mechanism works great. But I think it needs a explanation to let the users know, why the submitt button is disabled. It can display near the submitt button or the rating field.

3. About the links_linkbit template. Now the thumb and the item infos (plus comment/rating, etc.) are put in the middle of the column. It is not convenient when there is a long item description. I prefer to putting them in the top of the column, so the users can see these infos at the first sight when they open the page. Of course I can do it myself, but I hope you can make it as default.

Thanks again for your great work! Merci bien!

[Alfa1]

Thanks for all your hard work Andrew!

[dilbert]

Of course I checked that, well, um, not actually checked, kinda sorta... OK, so I had no idea.
Thank you for figuring this out for me, and if this is something you already posted, my apologies.
Once again, this is terrific work.

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Looking at the vbadvanced code, this message can be generated if va is unable to write in your modules directory Have you checked that it has full write erissions? (ie mode 777 on unix)

[itsblack]

Andrew, there's something wrong with autocreate_sync_comments. I have set it to yes, but it doesn't work.

[Rouzbeh1]

thank you andrew
update worked without any problem. xml LDM sitemap worked also. i have just added it to yahoo siteexplorer for testing reason to see if it works

[obmob]

WOW! RC is here!

Thanks Andrew!

[AndrewD]

Thanks.

Originally Posted by itsblack

1. About the vba moudule ldm_new_thumb. Now it uses the thumbnails which has been created. Unfortunately the thumb size I used in LDM is much bigger than which I assigned in vba moudule before. So it will be great, if you add a switch to let people choose which method (use the exist thumbs or use the former method) they would like to use.

Mea culpa. The code is supposed to spot this and work out what to do. Unfortunately, I overlooked a couple of things. Will fix.

Originally Posted by itsblack

2. The new Rating mechanism works great. But I think it needs a explanation to let the users know, why the submitt button is disabled. It can display near the submitt button or the rating field.

Agreed

Originally Posted by itsblack

3. About the links_linkbit template. Now the thumb and the item infos (plus comment/rating, etc.) are put in the middle of the column. It is not convenient when there is a long item description. I prefer to putting them in the top of the column, so the users can see these infos at the first sight when they open the page. Of course I can do it myself, but I hope you can make it as default.

I've wondered about this for some time and I think you're right, but I recall someone felt otherwise. Probably the easiest solution is simply to add another linkbit into the choices, so that there's one with with top alignment.

Originally Posted by itsblack

There's something wrong with autocreate_sync_comments. I have set it to yes, but it doesn't work.

It works for me, but there was a bug that I fixed between the beta and the RC code. Can you check that you've correctly uploaded the local_links_actions.php file? Line 2213 should read

	$links_defaults['autocreate_sync_comments'] and

In the old, incorrect, code, line 2205 read

	$links_defaults['autocreate_sync_comments_with_thread'] and

[Slave]

Hi Andrew

I've just installed .8 on a new 3.6.8 forum and imported my links from one of my old forums. I've noticed that the search is only working on stuff I've newly added to the db today and not on any of my old links. I've tried both types of search in the settings.

Any ideas? .. Do I need to rebuild the search table and if so where do I do it (I'm blind!)

Also, I've just noticed that on one of my old forums, when I try to access the LDM admin area all I get is a blank page in IE but all the code is there when I look at the source. It also works fine in Safari .. any ideas why that would happen? (was running .7, upgraded to .8 to see if that would help, it didn't)

[Slave]

Hmm .. I've just noticed that the plugin the LDM uses to show last link/download and number of links when you have a forum as a link to LDM doesn't take into account forum permissions. So unregistered and incorrect user groups are seeing the latest file from an area they shouldn't even know is there

Should this be working as I think it should, or has it always done that? Any chance of changing it if so?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Slave

Hi Andrew

Well, how do you do...

Originally Posted by Slave

Hi Andrew
I've just installed .8 on a new 3.6.8 forum and imported my links from one of my old forums. I've noticed that the search is only working on stuff I've newly added to the db today and not on any of my old links. I've tried both types of search in the settings.

Any ideas? .. Do I need to rebuild the search table and if so where do I do it (I'm blind!)

This is weird. There is no search table to build - it's all done within sql (unlike vb). How did you import the old entries - via LDM or as a database import?

Originally Posted by Slave

Hi Andrew
Also, I've just noticed that on one of my old forums, when I try to access the LDM admin area all I get is a blank page in IE but all the code is there when I look at the source. It also works fine in Safari .. any ideas why that would happen? (was running .7, upgraded to .8 to see if that would help, it didn't)

Couple of things to try - a) clear the browser cache, and b) go to vbulletin/admincp/options and set the gzip output option to 'no'.

Concerning the forum plugins, I don't think they've changed, but I'll take a look to see what can be done.