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.

[3Dx]

v-nice work Great product! It works fine for me

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by mattcaswell

I am the weakest link! Didn't have a file where it was supposed to be. It's installed and I guess its working. Gotta figure out how to get a link on the navbar. I'll search!

Thanks for the help,
Matt

Take a look at the on-line manual:

http://www.eirma.org/wikis/index.php/Installing_LDM

Simplest approach is to edit the navbar template

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Poag

Hi there.

I have a relativly minor problem thats stopping me setting the mod active.

I use a seperate webserver to host my file downloads, this uses a seperate port, not matter how i try however I cannot get the mod to accept the seperate port as a "correct" host. It keeps trying to go through my file system and make new folders under :81

I upload files to /home/bob/downloads/uploads which goes to www.example.com/downloads/uploads
however i would like it to point to www.example.com:81/downloads/uploads

Any help greatly apprietiated

Hello again. Can I ask for some more information on how you are trying to make this work?

I tested the following:

- I set up a trial server on port 81, and constructed an entry in LDM on another server pointing to http://trial_server:81/myfile.pdf. This is accessed and downloaded correctly via LDM.

- However, I don't understand why you are running two servers on the same machine. When LDM accesses files via a full url, the access is *much* less efficient than a direct filestore link, even if it is on the same machine. There is an overhead in http access which does not exist when you do a direct file read

- If you want LDM to get at files that are on the same computer but in a different part of the filestore, the easiest way to deal with this is via the LDM *local_file_root* and *local_file_root_prefix* parameters, e.g.
- set local_file_root = yes
- set local_file_root_prefix to /home/bob/dowloads
- set upload_dir to /uploads

I'm missing something important, I'm sure.

[itsblack]

Hi Andrew, I find a new problem: the LDM search can't deal with unicode words.
When I search with english words, everything goes well. But when I search with chinese words, I got mysql error, like this

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.5:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT link.linkid AS linkid
FROM local_linkslink AS link
WHERE;

MySQL error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 3
Error Code : 1064
Date : Wednesday, April 18th 2007 @ 05:59:55 PM
Script : http://xxx.xxx.xxx/forum/local_links...&desc=1&keys=1
...

[MotMann]

Witch file i must use for a fresh install?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by itsblack

Hi Andrew, I find a new problem: the LDM search can't deal with unicode words.
When I search with english words, everything goes well. But when I search with chinese words, I got mysql error, like this

OK, will try to investigate.

Does the regular vb search work with unicode?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by MotMann

Witch file i must use for a fresh install?

This is explained in the online documentation, see http://www.eirma.org/wikis/index.php...nloads_Manager

If you want to completely remove an existing installation:

- first, deinstall via the vb admin/product page
- then, upload the file local_links_kill.php into your forums/admincp directory, and point your browser at it.

You'll find this file in the release/extras/kill-LDM subdirectory of the release

[MotMann]

Look at the top of these post. There are two files to download.

Witch one ist the last one? Or i must use all two files?

[itsblack]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Does the regular vb search work with unicode?

Yes, it works.

[itsblack]

Originally Posted by MotMann

Look at the top of these post. There are two files to download.

Witch one ist the last one? Or i must use all two files?

You should use "links 2.2.7 post2.zip", it's the newest one.