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.

[dtommy79]

hi,

I've installed this mod and I have a feww error in the admin page. First of all this one:

Possible inconsistencies between LDM and its environment
- web server DocRoot /servers/httpd/htdocs seems to point to a non-existent directory

and then this one:



Here is a link to the picture:
http://kepfeltoltes.hu/070810/links_...toltes.hu_.gif

Any idea?

[Mori750]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Definitely not right! Do you want me to take a look? - if so send me a PM with site details and an admin username and password

i have same problem , Can u Help me plz?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by dtommy79

hi,

I've installed this mod and I have a feww error in the admin page. First of all this one:



and then this one:



Here is a link to the picture:
http://kepfeltoltes.hu/070810/links_...toltes.hu_.gif

Any idea?

LDM has to be able to read and write files on your server, and it can be prevented from doing this by security settings on your server. One of these is the php.ini setting open_basedir. This prevents php scripts from reading and writing files except in directories specified in its setting or in their subdirectories.

It looks to me as if the setting of open_basedir on your server does not allow scripts to read/write files that are actually within your web site directories (which DOC_ROOT points to).

The message

web server DocRoot /servers/httpd/htdocs seems to point to a non-existent directory

actually means "I can't find out if the directory exists or not", and the reason is that your php.ini setting of open_basedir is forbidding this to happen.

If there is a good reason for excluding your web site from the open_basedir setting, you can still get LDM to work, but you have to make sure that uploads and and files that you provide to your community are stored in directories that are authorised by open_basedir. LDM will not be able to store thumbnails of images, because these have to be placed within the web site itself.

You achieve this using the LDM settings local_file_root and local_file_root_prefix. This is explained in the wiki, see url in the first post.

If you don't understand what I'm saying, you will need to speak to your site admin

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Mori750

i have same problem , Can u Help me plz?

I can help - send me a PM with site details and an admin account - but just to explain - the main problem on that site was that they were running the board in a non-English language and had not installed the LDM phrases for that language.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by obmob

Oh, it is hairy!

Well, it's awesome, it was indeed the 'postlink' part, I don't know how this works, but is it possible to add a selectable menu in the filmstrip setting to select where we want to show it? Oh, and this kind of information is added to your wiki? It is quite useful.

Maybe for 2.2.9 or 2.3

Thanks

I will make the final version in 2.2.8 behave in the proper way, i.e. with a selectable option in the admin and a standard template. I don't want people choking on hair balls. Bad enough when cats do it.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by minimalize

Hi Andrew,

when i have a link like http://rapidshare.de/afile_name.mp3 the system tries to play the link with the mediaplayer. But this is the rapidshare url. Is there an option to turn the mediaplayer off for external links?

I think you can get round the problem with LDM/admin/settings => set force_redirect to 1. This may have some side effects, depending on what else is in your database.

I will have to think whether there is a better way to do this, without building in a list of special cases.

[Alfa1]

The amount of keywords in my LDM are rapidly getting quite large. Many keywords are misspellings. It would be nice to be able to merge keywords entries. for example: if you have the following keywords, with a certain number of entries linked to them:
pharmacology [32]
pharmacoligy [17]
It would be optimal to be able to merge them, so that all entries have the same correct keyword. As it is now you would have to edit them one by one and with thousands of entries this is not feasible.

[hydn]

I have an increasing # of members reporting the following error:

"Our records indicate that you have already registered under the name of Dory. If you have lost your password click HERE. If you would like to modify your account, click HERE."

Any ideas? It blocks users from downloading.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by hydn

I have an increasing # of members reporting the following error:

"Our records indicate that you have already registered under the name of Dory. If you have lost your password click HERE. If you would like to modify your account, click HERE."

Any ideas? It blocks users from downloading.

That message is produced in the standard vbulletin register.php script I'm not sure why it should be displayed within LDM. What are your users doing that triggers it?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

The amount of keywords in my LDM are rapidly getting quite large. Many keywords are misspellings. It would be nice to be able to merge keywords entries. for example: if you have the following keywords, with a certain number of entries linked to them:
pharmacology [32]
pharmacoligy [17]
It would be optimal to be able to merge them, so that all entries have the same correct keyword. As it is now you would have to edit them one by one and with thousands of entries this is not feasible.

Understood. Will see how to handle this.