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.

[abdelghani68]

How to do for translate definitively in idtag 'PlayingTime' 'Artist' and the other information please ?

[vbboarder]

In LDM Settings > Jukebox, when setting the musicbox_default_sort_order to hits 30 days, hits 7 days, or hits 24 hours, LDM reports an SQL error:

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'linkrecenthits' in 'order clause'

Note: setting it to "hits overall" works fine though.

[vbboarder]

Currently, the display of my categories is randomly sorted if their order values are all equal (default value is 1). The work around is to set the display order values to the order that you want the categories to display.... makes sense, but it's a hassle to change the display order every time I add a new category. For instance, if I have:
Category - Order
Apple - 1
Book - 2
Cat - 3
Then when I add a category called 'Bike', I'll also have to reset the order #'s of 'Book' and 'Cat' in order to keep my alphabetical order.

Feature Request: Can you make it so that if the categories' display orders are the same, then they are alphabetically sorted?

[vbboarder]

Here's a tricky bug to track: The prune_downloads setting is not saved. As you mentioned in your wiki, this setting is important because the download table can grow very large and needs to be pruned. Here's how to reproduce this bug (testing in 2.2.9-post1):
Set the setting for prune_downloads in Links & Downloads > Hits and click 'Go' to save the setting. Click on any other LDM admin page (just to navigate away), and then click on the Hits page again. You'll see that the prune_downloads setting is reset to 0.

Partial work-around: You can set the prune_downloadtable in Links & Downloads > Settings > Hits Recording, and it will save your value. However, as soon as you navigate to the Hits page, the prune_downloads will reset to 0.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by vbboarder

Feature Request: Can you make it so that if the categories' display orders are the same, then they are alphabetically sorted?

This was always the default behaviour, and still is for me, so I'm not sure what's gone wrong. Two suggestions - 1) I did add a new setting in 2.3.0 to separate the default sort order for categories (ldm/admin/cat_default_sort_order ) from the setting for enties (default_sort_order); 2) I provided a faulty fix for sparklywater a couple of weeks ago, which was intended to achieve a natural sort order (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11 rather than 1,10,11,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9). If you implemented that fix, it would have the effect of randomising non-numeric titles.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by abdelghani68

How to do for translate definitively in idtag 'PlayingTime' 'Artist' and the other information please ?

These are set up inside the 'add on' and you will have to edit the code. I'm afraid that changing them is currently not straightforward if you already have any entries in your database which have been tagged.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by vbboarder

Here's a tricky bug to track: The prune_downloads setting is not saved. As you mentioned in your wiki, this setting is important because the download table can grow very large and needs to be pruned. Here's how to reproduce this bug (testing in 2.2.9-post1):
Set the setting for prune_downloads in Links & Downloads > Hits and click 'Go' to save the setting. Click on any other LDM admin page (just to navigate away), and then click on the Hits page again. You'll see that the prune_downloads setting is reset to 0.

Partial work-around: You can set the prune_downloadtable in Links & Downloads > Settings > Hits Recording, and it will save your value. However, as soon as you navigate to the Hits page, the prune_downloads will reset to 0.

That was a remarkably silly bug on my part. The fix is very straightforward - line 57 of includes/local_links_admin_logjumps.php should read:

	if ($vbulletin->GPC_exists['prune_downloadtable'] and $vbulletin->GPC['prune_downloadtable']>=0) {

[vbboarder]

This was always the default behaviour, and still is for me, so I'm not sure what's gone wrong. Two suggestions - 1) I did add a new setting in 2.3.0 to separate the default sort order for categories (ldm/admin/cat_default_sort_order ) from the setting for enties (default_sort_order);

Thanks for this info. I did not realize that default_sort_order also ordered categories in 2.2.9, eventhough the description said it was for entries. I had it set on "date created" so setting it to "title" solved the problem. That's great that you provided categories with its own cat_default_sort_order setting in 2.3.0

[vbboarder]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

These are set up inside the 'add on' and you will have to edit the code. I'm afraid that changing them is currently not straightforward if you already have any entries in your database which have been tagged.

I was able to edit the plugin code to change the id3 tag names, but it wasn't straightforward as you said. Is it possible to phrase those tag names so users can easily change/ translate them?

[abdelghani68]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

These are set up inside the 'add on' and you will have to edit the code. I'm afraid that changing them is currently not straightforward if you already have any entries in your database which have been tagged.

Yes, I woul'd like to modified that in the code. How to do that please. Where are the expressions. Thanks.

I haven't entries tagged in my data base.