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.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by hydn

We would like to be able to accommodate Over the air downloads via mobileof jad and jar files. Both files would need to be uploaded and one be able to call the other when accessed for download. possible?

Saw this post yesterday Not sure I understand the consequences which is why I had not answered yet

[tamborinegal]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

It's a combination of reasons - partly sloppy coding by me. I think you must have installed another hack recently which is setting a variable ($forum) that LDM uses.

You can get rid of the warning as far as LDM is concerned by editing local_links_admin.php and adding the line

$forum = array();

immediately before line 343

But it would be worth find out out which hack has added this stray variable in case we're leaving problems for the future.

Thanks Andrew,

I did that and then it threw up the same error at line 689. I did the same for that line and that fixed it. I also had the problem when clicking the Moderate link. I fixed it in two places that needed changing and all is well now.

I think I have only installed vbispy recently and that's not a product. so I don't think that would have caused the problem. If I remember installing anything else I'll let you know.

Thanks again,

Clancy

[Ophelia]

Hi Andrew.

We would like to add to Joomla the function of showing the most recently added thing to a category.

I have a module installed now that allows you to just copy/paste PHP, HTML, JS, CSS into it and it will show the code in that module. Is there specific code that I can use that will grab either the text link or the image from the most recently added item to a category?

Thank you Andrew!

[CamJM]

Just wondering if the vbAdvanced modules work on vbA Dynamics the same way they do on the CMPS.

[josiespencer]

Heya, Andrew! I haven't been here to yank your chain for awhile.

I have a problem with your amazing mod - some of my users seem to be able to download more than their daily allowance. Here is an example:





Any clue?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by josiespencer

Heya, Andrew! I haven't been here to yank your chain for awhile.

I have a problem with your amazing mod - some of my users seem to be able to download more than their daily allowance. Here is an example:

Any clue?

Not off the top of my head. Have you taken a look at what the LDM admin thinks they are downloading? - ldm/admin/hits and then use the menus and links to drill down and see what the user is recorded as accessing. Have you also tried creating a new user in this group and seeing what happens when you try to go over the allowance limit?

It may be a real problem with accesses or it may just be something strange in the presentation of the hits

**Edited**

After looking at the code, it's possible that the report given on the LDM/admin/bandwidth page is not accurate. Not all 'hits' count against allowances - only those which actually require LDM to take control of the file transfer. So accesses to offsite links are not actually 'countable' against the allowances. I think the allowance rules are working correctly, but am ready to be proved wrong.

[Ophelia]

Hi Andrew I posted about wanting the download manager to show up in Joomla. Is this possible? Hope you're have a great day!!

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Ophelia

Hi Andrew I posted about wanting the download manager to show up in Joomla. Is this possible? Hope you're have a great day!!

Sorry - haven't had a chance to think about this - will try to give you an answer at the weekend.

[gibigbig]

great modification, works in this forum perfectly!
everything was as explained in this post, no hacks involved and works in vB 3.6.8 Level Patch 2.
the admin panel was a bit confusing though :P

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Ophelia

Hi Andrew.

We would like to add to Joomla the function of showing the most recently added thing to a category.

I have a module installed now that allows you to just copy/paste PHP, HTML, JS, CSS into it and it will show the code in that module. Is there specific code that I can use that will grab either the text link or the image from the most recently added item to a category?

Thank you Andrew!

If I understand correctly, a php file in your main forums directory (let's call it ldmgrabber.php) with this content:

PHP Code:

<?php

require_once('./global.php');
require_once(DIR . '/includes/local_links_init.php');
require_once(DIR . '/includes/local_links_include.php');
require_once(DIR . '/includes/local_links_vbafunc.php');

$pagenumber = max(intval($_REQUEST['ldmnew']), 1); 

$filter    = array("link.linkmoderate = 0");
$order    = "linkdate DESC ";

$show_catname = 1;

list ($links, $nhits, $q) =
    ldm_vba_links($filter, 0, $order, "adv_portal_custom_ldm_new_one",
        "",
        10, // number of entries to show
        1, // entries per line
        0,
        1);

$collapseobj_custom_ldm_hot = $vbcollapse['collapseobj_custom_ldm_new'];
$collapseimg_custom_ldm_hot = $vbcollapse['collapseimg_custom_ldm_new'];

eval('$content .= "' . fetch_template('adv_portal_custom_ldm_new') . '";');
unset($filter, $order, $links, $nhits, $q, $collapseobj_custom_ldm_hot, $collapseimg_custom_ldm_hot);

echo "<table>$content</table>";

?>

then do a call to yourforum/ldmgrabber.php

This will deliver a table set out rather like the block in vbadvanced (actually, this is pretty well the code for the vbadvanced module).