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.

[PitchouneN64ngc]

Hi AndrewD

Just a little thing: for the phrases 'll_HELP_title_media', 'll_HELP_title_security' and 'll_HELP_title_synchronise', you have an little error in the path ('index.php//LDM_Settings' instead of 'index.php/LDM_Settings')

[josiespencer]

Andrew, sorry to kick another bug in 2.2.7 at you when I know you want to finalize it but you still have access to my website so you can test it on us.

We have been keeping a close eye on users reaching the daily max download count which is 10 for now. We use either the Quota stats or the Allowances option in the Adminster 2.2.7 option from the Links and Downloads menu bar.

Here is an example: I have three users who I am pretty sure are all the same user. Three users are maxed out for the day, they all originate from the same IP address, and the prefix for all the files they download is the same, SCM. So I wanted to pull a hit list for a user named mariored. I clicked on the [View hits] options, and then clicked on the username when it was displayed as a single entry on the next day. I got a list of the 10 files downloaded by the use today. So I clicked on the IP address for that user to see who else is downloading using that same IP address and the first page looks fine:



Then I click either > or 2 and instead of getting the second page to the restricted IP results, it looks like I get some sort of global user list:



Please feel free to poke around on my site to research this is you need to do so.

[Jaxel]

Hey Andrew, can you perhaps write a script I can run to rebuild all the thumbnails? I know I can press the "reset thumbnails" button, but that only clears the current thumbnails, it doesnt actually create new ones.

http://www.crookedjester.com/local_links.php?catid=88
I just moved to a new server, however for some reason, even after hitting the reset thumbnails button, when I browse to the media it doesnt recreate the thumbnails... I have 'create_thumbs_oninsert' set to NO, so it should create the thumbs on first page display, but it doesnt. Instead I just get the usual red Xs.

I can manually get the thumbnail to show up by setting 'create_thumbs_oninsert' to YES and then manually going into each link and confirming an edit; in which it will recreate the thumb right then and there.

So I am looking for a script that will manually recreate all the thumbs.

[Alfa1]

Is it possible to somehow connect a RSS feed to LDM, so that LDM automaticly adds new video's in the same way that vbulletin can create new moderated threads from RSS feeds?

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Hey Andrew, can you perhaps write a script I can run to rebuild all the thumbnails? I know I can press the "reset thumbnails" button, but that only clears the current thumbnails, it doesnt actually create new ones.

http://www.crookedjester.com/local_links.php?catid=88
I just moved to a new server, however for some reason, even after hitting the reset thumbnails button, when I browse to the media it doesnt recreate the thumbnails... I have 'create_thumbs_oninsert' set to NO, so it should create the thumbs on first page display, but it doesnt. Instead I just get the usual red Xs.

I can manually get the thumbnail to show up by setting 'create_thumbs_oninsert' to YES and then manually going into each link and confirming an edit; in which it will recreate the thumb right then and there.

So I am looking for a script that will manually recreate all the thumbs.

me too!



and found a small tiny bug.
we I try to add new link AND set the order number to something other than 1... it doesn't actually save the order number (saves it as 1). you have to edit the link and save the order number again for it to "take".

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by PitchouneN64ngc

Hi AndrewD

Just a little thing: for the phrases 'll_HELP_title_media', 'll_HELP_title_security' and 'll_HELP_title_synchronise', you have an little error in the path ('index.php//LDM_Settings' instead of 'index.php/LDM_Settings')

Thanks!

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Is it possible to somehow connect a RSS feed to LDM, so that LDM automaticly adds new video's in the same way that vbulletin can create new moderated threads from RSS feeds?

I believe thats already in there-- extra folder. haven't used it though, so not 100% sure how it works.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Hey Andrew, can you perhaps write a script I can run to rebuild all the thumbnails? I know I can press the "reset thumbnails" button, but that only clears the current thumbnails, it doesnt actually create new ones.

http://www.crookedjester.com/local_links.php?catid=88
I just moved to a new server, however for some reason, even after hitting the reset thumbnails button, when I browse to the media it doesnt recreate the thumbnails... I have 'create_thumbs_oninsert' set to NO, so it should create the thumbs on first page display, but it doesnt. Instead I just get the usual red Xs.

I can manually get the thumbnail to show up by setting 'create_thumbs_oninsert' to YES and then manually going into each link and confirming an edit; in which it will recreate the thumb right then and there.

So I am looking for a script that will manually recreate all the thumbs.

As far as I can tell from your site, LDM thinks that it is creating new thumbs, but somehow they are then not found.

Couple of questions:
- Does it display a thumb correctly when you add a new entry to the database (i.e. is it only the old entries which have a problem)?
- When you moved server, did you change the location of the master images from which the thumbs are generated?

My guess is that LDM can't find the master images from which it builds the thumbnail, but I may be wrong.

To get to the bottom of this, I'll need admin access to your site.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Is it possible to somehow connect a RSS feed to LDM, so that LDM automaticly adds new video's in the same way that vbulletin can create new moderated threads from RSS feeds?

Good idea - I think this can probably be done with an plugin. If it's ok with you, I'll get 2.2.7 out of the door before trying to write it.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by josiespencer

Please feel free to poke around on my site to research this is you need to do so.

Will do