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.

[MissKalunji]

welcome back andrew

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Been Told

Sorry if this has been posted already, but the umlauts in the german translation don?t work and should be replaced with their respective HTML codes. I.e. ? = ä ? = Ü and so on.
I have done this. Please find the updated file attached.

Thanks for this.

I think the problem is to do with utf8 and latin1 character encodings, and we keep getting different messages from German sites as to the preferred approach.

As far as I understand (I may be wrong), the released translation displays correctly when the board's database tables are utf8 and the vb language HTML character set is also set to utf8. However, if the tables are latin 1 or the vb language HTML character set is to ISO-8859-1, then one needs to spell out the umlauts, etc, using the latin-1 escapes. Spelling them out will always work (including with a full utf8 board), so it may be the best approach. I'd welcome other people's comments.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by MissKalunji

welcome back andrew

It's nice to be here

[abdelghani68]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Send me a PM with your site details and an account with vb admin privs. Otherwise we're going to spend forever on this.

thanks very mush for your job. It works very good now.

[abdelghani68]

as usual, I have suggestion... But if it's a lot of works, you can ignore it please.

When wimpy butons is active, we can open the audio in the jukebox when we visit the entree with clic in the link (because in the lecteur we have the option for do back and advance...).

We can have the playlist with wimpy as jw player.

Take your time, I know the priority now, it's to the version 2.3 of LDM.

Thanks very mush.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by abdelghani68

as usual, I have suggestion... But if it's a lot of works, you can ignore it please.

When wimpy butons is active, we can open the audio in the jukebox when we visit the entree with clic in the link (because in the lecteur we have the option for do back and advance...).

We can have the playlist with wimpy as jw player.

Take your time, I know the priority now, it's to the version 2.3 of LDM.

Thanks very mush.

Thanks. I take note, but as you say, the priority is to finish version 2.3.0.

1) You can do this quite easily yourself (if you feel adventurous). Edit (vb admincp) the plugin "Links and Downloads Manager - Use Wimpy Button to play mp3 media" which is attached to the "ldm_linkbit_create" hook. Find the line which reads

PHP Code:

$linkurljump = $linkname; 


and put two // at the front of the line, i.e.

PHP Code:

// $linkurljump = $linkname; 


2) Be aware that Wimpy's playlists do not use the same format as JWPlayer.

[abdelghani68]

okay thanks, I will do that.

I have a little problem. Wasp doesn't works for me. I don't understand why it's write : Extra; currently not installed, but I have imported the plugin wimpyplayer-flash-plugin.

Can you help me please ?

[Alfa1]

Regarding the ldm_forumstats plugin: I would like to show how many GB of files I have in my file archive. How can I add this? Could you add this function to a forthcoming release?

Does anyone know how to add 'files to moderate' and 'comments to moderate' to the vbulletin notifications menu?

I am using some categories as main categories(similar to forum categories, which hold only forums, no threads). The only solution for this that I have found, is close a category. Unfortunately, that will show a message: 'This category is closed for posting'. My members conclude that all children are closed as well and stop uploading to the category. Is there a better solution?
Could you please add a function to have main categories?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by abdelghani68

okay thanks, I will do that.

I have a little problem. Wasp doesn't works for me. I don't understand why it's write : Extra; currently not installed, but I have imported the plugin wimpyplayer-flash-plugin.

Can you help me please ?

Fixed and tested on your site.

[abdelghani68]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Fixed and tested on your site.

It works very good now. Thanks.