Major Additions - Links and Downloads Manager

What this is and does

LDM is a general-purpose tool for managing libraries of links and files, and handling uploads and downloads in a flexible way, while tracking and control user access. It has a range of integrated media players and a large library of 'plugin' extras.

Installation and Usage Explained in the on-line Wiki, with a brief explanation in the file instructions.txt in the release zip. The recent revision history is given in the first post of this thread.

Please use carefully and always backup your database before upgrading. Post reports of problems and suggestions for enhancements in this thread.

14.06.09 Version 2.3.0 is now the the officially-supported version. Works with 3.7 and vb 3.8. Please post comments in this thread

22.06.08 Version 2.2.9-post1 - This is the previous supported version. Works fine with all versions of vb 3.6 and vb 3.7. All standard features except profile integration and forum prefix selection work fine with vb 3.8.

[webspider]

This appears to be a great addon.

After installation I tried to access various sections from my ACP and was presented with a VB no permission error page specifically "Statistics & Searches" I'm logged in as admin. Any idea why this may be happening?

Many thanks!

[IrPr]

Andrew, Im getting "Operation Aborted" Error on IE when pop-up comments are enabled on every entry page
Any solution?

Thanks

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by webspider

This appears to be a great addon.

After installation I tried to access various sections from my ACP and was presented with a VB no permission error page specifically "Statistics & Searches" I'm logged in as admin. Any idea why this may be happening?

Many thanks!

Sorry, I'd overlooked that.

Those acp commands take you to LDM pages that no longer exist, which is why there's an error message. Will fix.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by IrPr

Andrew, Im getting "Operation Aborted" Error on IE when pop-up comments are enabled on every entry page
Any solution?

Thanks

According to a Google search, this may be a bug in IE, caused when Javascripts modify pages 'on the fly', which is the case with the vbulletin code that handles the comment pop-ups. I cannot reproduce the bug within LDM but I can easily generate the bug with a short test script (see attached).

Have you got other Javascripts embedded into your pages? Possibly, there's a conflict.

[tekguru]

Hi guys, yesterday I upgraded to the RC 2.29 version with vB 3.6.10 to get around the security token issue.

Two days prior to this the server the site runs on was ugraded (with no issues) to MySQL 5.0.45.

Since these two changes I'm seeing:

1) MySQL errors:

PHP Code:

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.10:

Invalid SQL:

                                        UPDATE vb_session
                                        SET lastactivity = 1209614372, location = '/forums/local_links.php?action=jump&id=164&catid=8', useragent = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SU 3.011; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; InfoPath.2; Zune 2.0; .NET CLR 3.5.21022)'
                                        WHERE sessionhash = '65f940813662b64ba0952843a5cfddd9';

MySQL Error  : MySQL server has gone away Error Number : 2006
Date         : Thursday, May 1st 2008 @ 05:00:38 AM
Script       : http://www.4winmobile.com/forums/local_links.php?action=jump&id=164&catid=8
Referrer     : http://www.4winmobile.com/forums/phone-edition-general/14865-slide2unlock-better-than-default-windows-screen-lock-customisable-too.html
IP Address   : 24.17.203.240
Username     : esamos
Classname    : vB_Database 


I'm not seeing any similar errors from any other part of the system.

2) Also if I try and use the FORUMHOME patches to display the top downloads I get a error on line 20 of the code and the page will not load. Is this because I'm running 3.6.10? I've taken the steps obn removing all addins, and them overwriting the Mod and readding with no changes to the issue. So for the moment we're having to run without these.

Any ideas on either?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by tekguru

Hi guys, yesterday I upgraded to the RC 2.29 version with vB 3.6.10 to get around the security token issue.

Two days prior to this the server the site runs on was ugraded (with no issues) to MySQL 5.0.45.

Since these two changes I'm seeing:

1) MySQL errors:

PHP Code:

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.10:

Invalid SQL:

                                        UPDATE vb_session
                                        SET lastactivity = 1209614372, location = '/forums/local_links.php?action=jump&id=164&catid=8', useragent = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SU 3.011; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; InfoPath.2; Zune 2.0; .NET CLR 3.5.21022)'
                                        WHERE sessionhash = '65f940813662b64ba0952843a5cfddd9';

MySQL Error  : MySQL server has gone away Error Number : 2006
Date         : Thursday, May 1st 2008 @ 05:00:38 AM
Script       : http://www.4winmobile.com/forums/local_links.php?action=jump&id=164&catid=8
Referrer     : http://www.4winmobile.com/forums/phone-edition-general/14865-slide2unlock-better-than-default-windows-screen-lock-customisable-too.html
IP Address   : 24.17.203.240
Username     : esamos
Classname    : vB_Database 


I'm not seeing any similar errors from any other part of the system.

These'a similar report on vb.com:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...46#post1547346

They suggest increasing the mySql wait_timeout setting, which controls how long the database connection stays open for a script. This would make sense with LDM - the sql that you report is executed right at the end of vbulletin page generation. Particularly if someone has just done a download, then the database connection might have closed down in the meantime.

Originally Posted by tekguru

Also if I try and use the FORUMHOME patches to display the top downloads I get a error on line 20 of the code and the page will not load. Is this because I'm running 3.6.10? I've taken the steps obn removing all addins, and them overwriting the Mod and readding with no changes to the issue. So for the moment we're having to run without these.

Any ideas on either?

I'll test this and post a reply when possible.

[tekguru]

Cheers Andrew, have requested that my host sends me a copy of the ini file for MySQL to I can take a look at it.

If you can come back on the errors that would be great.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by tekguru

If you can come back on the errors that would be great.

I'd moved some code into a new file and forgotten to update the plugin.

Here are modified versions of the plugins for the patch-forumhome-newlinks and patch-forumhome-thumbs extras.

[tekguru]

Okay those are now in and the error is gone - cheers for that.

Next problem is that he icons associated with the entries now showing hav an X for the image. Looking at the image properties the code is looking for the icons:

http://www.4winmobile.com/forums/htt.../icons/zip.gif

instead of at:

http://www.4winmobile.com/forums/images/icons/zip.gif

Any ideas if I can fix this one? This is with the 'hot' entries only)

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by tekguru

Okay those are now in and the error is gone - cheers for that.

Next problem is that he icons associated with the entries now showing hav an X for the image. Looking at the image properties the code is looking for the icons:

http://www.4winmobile.com/forums/htt.../icons/zip.gif

instead of at:

http://www.4winmobile.com/forums/images/icons/zip.gif

Any ideas if I can fix this one? This is with the 'hot' entries only)

Try this version of includes/local_links_vbafunc.php