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.

[vrom]

Is it possible to use to show wimpy wasp (player for flv) directly in link layout?
(soe user do not need to open pop-up widnow to see video)
Thank you!

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

argh..sorry to be a pain..but www.viddler.com as well (flash sites).

again, be happy to try to add myself with instruction.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by IrPr

Andrew, another suggestion
You can integare this mod to vB AnyMedia and use anymedia class to parse all of media types to stream
Im using class_anymedia.php parsing Youtube, Megavideo and stage6 in my LDM and it rocks!

Originally Posted by GrendelKhan{TSU

argh..sorry to be a pain..but www.viddler.com as well (flash sites).

I'll work out what is the best way to do this for these sites and in the long term. I imagine that the anymedia class is similar in concept to the the LDM player parser, so I'll check if it better/simpler to replace one with the other or to keep things distinct.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by vrom

Is it possible to use to show wimpy wasp (player for flv) directly in link layout?
(soe user do not need to open pop-up widnow to see video)
Thank you!

Not currently, but I have been thinking about this for a while, either with wasp or Jeroen Wijering's mp3/flash/swf player (which is free). One question - what would you want to happen if the media dimensions are bigger than the linkbit? Should the linkbit enlarge, or should the player overlay the screen (the way the ldm lightbox extra works for images)?

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

I'll work out what is the best way to do this for these sites and in the long term. I imagine that the anymedia class is similar in concept to the the LDM player parser, so I'll check if it better/simpler to replace one with the other or to keep things distinct.

* second that. anymedia is quite good. these would do well to work together.

also, I suggestedt this long time ago, but i still think LDM would be INCREDIBLE jump up if it could:

1. convert to flash (ala all those flash sites. and thus be a way for everyone to have their own flash video hosting site). There are common license web site flash players (like you see on youtube et al) that I've seen around if that means anything.
2. directory/listings page could be set up like youtube layout.

* Overlay (but only if its moveable/draggable, so it doesn't block stuff anything underneath that may be needed)

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Not currently, but I have been thinking about this for a while, either with wasp or Jeroen Wijering's mp3/flash/swf player (which is free). One question - what would you want to happen if the media dimensions are bigger than the linkbit? Should the linkbit enlarge, or should the player overlay the screen (the way the ldm lightbox extra works for images)?

awesome! thank you!

also, maybe good to check out AME embedding which I use (in conjunction with anymedia actually) is great as its saves on serverover head and has it set up to allow for users to add xml for flash sites (which is good as there are MANY MANY of em +_+). dunno if that's helpful but just an FYI.

and um.. can you add www.divshare.com in the meantime too? ((I know I know *gk runs* ) ^^
eg: http://www.divshare.com/download/2314312-f48

as always, great work and incredible add-on.

[AndrewD]

This is now the officially supported version. Thanks to everyone for all the testing.

I have made no changes since the release candidate two weeks ago, except for updating the Chinese translation.

[Rouzbeh1]

cool
thanks for the update.
installed without any problems

[pspcrazy]

Andrew I was wondering is it normal for the upload directory to not work like it should :| For instance:

The forums are located here: http://forums.pspcrazy.com/forums/

Now the root prefix is a yes, and for it's directory i used: ./downloads

upload_dir : /files
Cannot access/create directory /files [/var/www/vhosts/pspcrazy.com/subdomains/forums/httpdocs/forums/downloads/files]

That's the directory i'm getting :| CHmod is 777 as well so that's not the issue.

also for thumbs they are in /downloads/thumbs but that doesn't work either :|

I need help to get this working , thanks in advance i do love this mod.

[Nam]

Andrew, I got the new error with 2.2.7, it seems like it has something to do with max connections, how to increase it? I got about 400 emails like this in a single hours

Database error in vBulletin

mysql_connect() [<a href='function.mysql-connect'>function.mysql-connect</a>]: User nam_nam has already more than 'max_user_connections' active connections
/home/nam/public_html/forums/includes/class_core.php on line 274

MySQL Error :
Error Number :
Date : Saturday, October 13th 2007 @ 10:21:56 PM
Script : http://www.domaincom/forums/local_li...N&pp=10&page=2
Referrer : http://www.domain.com/forums/local_links.php?catid=28
IP Address : 74.245.64.9
Username :
Classname : vb_database

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by pspcrazy

Andrew I was wondering is it normal for the upload directory to not work like it should :| For instance:

The forums are located here: http://forums.pspcrazy.com/forums/

Now the root prefix is a yes, and for it's directory i used: ./downloads

upload_dir : /files
Cannot access/create directory /files [/var/www/vhosts/pspcrazy.com/subdomains/forums/httpdocs/forums/downloads/files]

That's the directory i'm getting :| CHmod is 777 as well so that's not the issue.

also for thumbs they are in /downloads/thumbs but that doesn't work either :|

I need help to get this working , thanks in advance i do love this mod.

It is some time since I checked use of local_file_root = yes and a relative directory name, so I must recheck this.

It looks to me from your error message that the setting of local_file_root and the concatenation of local_file_root_prefix + upload dir is getting to the wrong place in the directory structure.

Remember that if you have set local_file_root to yes, then everything is based on directories relative to the server itself, rather than your web site root. If you are storing everything within directories that are actually part of the web site, then it's better and easier to set local_file_root to no.

So you have to discover the full path to the directories you want to use for uploads and thumbs, and make sure that the combination of local_file_root_prefix and upload_dir/thumbs_dir point to these directories. You can work this out by taking a look at the phpinfo output (e.g. vb/admin/maintenance) document_root.

Am happy to take a look at your site and get this working if you want - send me a PM if so.