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.

Please use carefully and always backup your database before upgrading. Post reports of problems and suggestions for enhancements in this thread. You can also find extensive discussion of this mod in the VB3.7 mods section.

14.06.09 Version 2.3.0 is the the officially-supported version. Works with 3.7 and vb 3.8.

14.02.10 Post-1 version uploaded with minor bug fixes, including dealing with PHP 5.2.12


Staff Note: Sadly, Andrew D, the developer of the Links and Downloads Manager has passed away after a long period of illness.

[intensecool]

Here starts the eager wait for those 5 million things to be over..
i just loved the way you helped me sort out the issue..
finally we are moving on with new things..
thanks a lot..
waiting for any new things to come up in this mod.

[Eliam]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

This weekend, I decided to start on the vb 4.0 conversion. Much has changed, and it's been an interesting/frustrating (depending on your point of view) exercise working out how to get things to work.

Anyway to show some progress, see the attached screenshot, which is of a base category display.

Only another five million things to change/understand/edit

Thanks you. It's wonderful news.:up::up::up:

Is it possible to download a beta version?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Eliam

Thanks you. It's wonderful news.:up::up::up:

Is it possible to download a beta version?

As I said, only five million more things to check/etc.

When it's ready for beta release, I'll let everyone know. At the moment, I'd say we're at a Greek letter that comes before alpha.

[abdelghani68]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

This weekend, I decided to start on the vb 4.0 conversion. Much has changed, and it's been an interesting/frustrating (depending on your point of view) exercise working out how to get things to work.

Anyway to show some progress, see the attached screenshot, which is of a base category display.

Only another five million things to change/understand/edit

Thanks very mush. very good.

I have a little problem with the long title of the name of the categories in firefox. It's written on two lines.

But in internet explorer, it's good, it's in one line.

Must I modifie cat_name_colwidth for the long titles are in one line in firefox ?

thanks

[abdelghani68]

There is an othere little bug. The sorts of entries in categorie is :

Filename 09
Filename 10
Filename 101
Filename 11

It's not now :

Filename 09
Filename 10
Filename 11
Filename 101

I have some suggesitons :

a popup for download time estimation

Notify Submitter on New Comments

The Height and wight of Shadowbox's popup is as the height and width of the image.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by abdelghani68

There is an othere little bug. The sorts of entries in categorie is :

Filename 09
Filename 10
Filename 101
Filename 11

It's not now :

Filename 09
Filename 10
Filename 11
Filename 101

This isn't a bug - there was a discussion some time ago about the 'correct' ordering of titles that have numbers in them, and the view was that (in your case) 101 comes after 11, not before it. The change was made in version 2.3.0.

If you really want the old behaviour, edit includes/local_links_include.php and find (line 1341 or thereabouts):

PHP Code:

    uksort($optbit, create_function('$a,$b', 'return strnatcasecmp($a, $b);')); 


and change it to

PHP Code:

    uksort($optbit, create_function('$a,$b', 'return strcasecmp($a, $b);')); 


Originally Posted by abdelghani68

I have some suggesitons :

a popup for download time estimation

Notify Submitter on New Comments

The Height and wight of Shadowbox's popup is as the height and width of the image.

Thanks, will be taken into consideration for the vb 4.x version of LDM, but I'm not sure whether the first suggestion is possible from the server side. There will be no further development of the 3.x code other than serious bug fixes.

[abdelghani68]

Thanks.

For the first suggestion, if it's not possible, I think we can do that :



other suggestion : we can read the comments in a popup or ajax (when we clics, all of the comments are displays below the entrie without redirection in another page) if it's possible.

[abdelghani68]

what is this error please ?

Invalid SQL:

                                       UPDATE vb_session
                                       SET lastactivity = 1260459714, location = '/forum/local_links.php?action=jump&catid=16&id=77'
                                       WHERE sessionhash = '29bcb6c95046ec0627edb2a9f1871a54';

MySQL Error   : MySQL server has gone away
Error Number  : 2006
Request Date  : Thursday, December 10th 2009 @ 04:41:54 PM
Error Date    : Thursday, December 10th 2009 @ 04:42:45 PM
Script        : http://www.home.fr/forum/local_links...catid=16&id=77
Referrer      : http://www.home.fr/forum/local_links.php?catid=16
IP Address    : ***
Username      : Non inscrit
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by abdelghani68

what is this error please ?

Invalid SQL:

                                       UPDATE vb_session
                                       SET lastactivity = 1260459714, location = '/forum/local_links.php?action=jump&catid=16&id=77'
                                       WHERE sessionhash = '29bcb6c95046ec0627edb2a9f1871a54';

MySQL Error   : MySQL server has gone away
Error Number  : 2006
Request Date  : Thursday, December 10th 2009 @ 04:41:54 PM
Error Date    : Thursday, December 10th 2009 @ 04:42:45 PM
Script        : http://www.home.fr/forum/local_links...catid=16&id=77
Referrer      : http://www.home.fr/forum/local_links.php?catid=16
IP Address    : ***
Username      : Non inscrit
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

It's caused by a timeout in MySQL. Depending on your system settings (which are outside LDM's control), large/lengthy downloads can take longer than the database system is configured to wait.

[ctrlbrk]

Is there a way to restrict download access by minimum post count? I don't want to create a whole usergroup, I just to say "You can't download unless you have 5 posts".

Mike