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.

[dilbert]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

I did a clean install of Ultimate Side Columns 2.0 and it shows up straight away in LDM. Haven't dug around to look for possible reasons why it would fail.

Hi Andrew,
The fact that it was using info from a prior footer made me suspicious, so I deleted the old style. I was hanging on to it for reference - I needed to recreate a lot of menu items.
It looks fine now.

[obmob]

Originally Posted by dilbert

Andrew,

This continuies to be a terrific mod.
I just updated my site to 3.7, and I reinstalled all of LDM, and re-imported the xml.

I have two issues.

My footer seems to be stuck with info from an older footer. Isn't it using the vB footer?

Also, I have Ultimate Side Columns 2.0 installed and they don't show on the LDM pages. Any thoughts on why?

Thanks, Cliff

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Yes, LDM uses the vb footer, which gets included in the links_footer template. Have you patched that template by any chance - you may need to revert it.

I don't know about UIltimate Side Columns, but will check what is the problem.

Maybe your some templates in you style needs to be reverted. footer template must be reverted in 3.7 :3

A lot of new phrases to be translated, already working on spanish version

[Ipuck]

I uses some icons from here: http://www.famfamfam.com/ and some from the original LDM icon folder to create another set of icons. I though someone may like it.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Ipuck

I uses some icons from here: http://www.famfamfam.com/ and some from the original LDM icon folder to create another set of icons. I though someone may like it.

Thanks

What did you think of the new icon set provided with LDM, which come from http://www.oxygen-icons.org/

[Ipuck]

What did you think of the new icon set provided with LDM, which come from http://www.oxygen-icons.org/

The icons are too large for me. I like small icons :-)

[itsblack]

The icons from oxygen-icons.org are good, but IMHO which from famfamfam.com are better.

BTW Andrew, can you add a new feature that let LDM display all the items which have the same additional attributes? I think it will be very useful and helpful to the user.

[tekguru]

Hmm strange I ended up with the same olds icons when I upgraded, if there a method to turn on the new icons?

[itsblack]

Originally Posted by tekguru

Hmm strange I ended up with the same olds icons when I upgraded, if there a method to turn on the new icons?

Change to installation procedure
Release now automatically places the oxygen icons into images/ldm-ox-icons and sets up new installations to use them
Existing installations need to update *file_icons_dir* to use these icons

[tekguru]

Ah ha I missed that one - now updated

[Ipuck]

Right side column for AD or anything just for LDM and rearrange "keyword filter" - "sort by" into two columns instead of two rows.

Change "ldm_main" template. The place to add the information is at the end of the file.