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.

[nohuhu]

AndrewD,

i guess i'm not the first to have problems with swfuploader extra. i tried to install it on my test forum and it doesn't seem to work at all. i mean, i see "browse" button in the add entry form but it doesn't press. actually, it does press in msie6 but does nothing. it doesn't even press in firefox. i suspected there's a problem with my browser but when i tried swfuploader demo at their site it worked. i see no settings for this extra plugin so there's nothing i could have misset. multi-upload is turned off. if i turn this extra off and upload files the old hard way everything's ok so it's not permission or any other problem. what can be wrong?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by nohuhu

AndrewD,

i guess i'm not the first to have problems with swfuploader extra. i tried to install it on my test forum and it doesn't seem to work at all. i mean, i see "browse" button in the add entry form but it doesn't press. actually, it does press in msie6 but does nothing. it doesn't even press in firefox. i suspected there's a problem with my browser but when i tried swfuploader demo at their site it worked. i see no settings for this extra plugin so there's nothing i could have misset. multi-upload is turned off. if i turn this extra off and upload files the old hard way everything's ok so it's not permission or any other problem. what can be wrong?

Sorry to hear of this problem. I've had one or two reports of difficulties with swfuploader, but I think they were all sorted out.

If the "browse" button is there but not doing anything, it suggests that one or more of the swfuploader files is missing or corrupted. Take a look on your site in the forum/clientscript/swfupload directory. There should be five files:

swfupload.swf - 13kb
swfupload.js - 38kb
swfupload.queue.js - 4kb
handlers.js - 7kb
fileprogress.js - 7kb

With firefox, it's worth installing the Firebug addon (from the firefox site). That way, if there is a problem with one of the javascript files, it will give you a warning down in the bottom right corner of the browser. By clicking on that warning, you should get a more detailed error message.

[nohuhu]

AndrewD,

thanks for the firebug tip, i never knew such a great tool existed. i've been able to find the problem with button, it appears that there's a line containing relative path to the actual flash object in links_swfuploader_header_one template and somehow this line was set to "/forum/clientscript/swfupload/swfupload.swf". i adjusted it for my setup and flash object begun working but there's a new problem now, after pressing submit button the local_links_actions.php just gives out blank screen. there's nothing in error_log and it appears that the problem may be somehow linked to file size: it successfully added 14kb gif but choked after uploading 0.5mb and 5mb jpegs.

[nohuhu]

AndrewD,

oopsie, it seems this bug is not actually yours. first i tried to upload 4.7 mb zip archive and it worked just fine and then i tried to upload smaller picture and it also worked. the final test was with that 5mb jpeg (12 mpix 2848x4288) but with optional thumbnail image (small one) filled in and it also worked. hence my conclusion: it seems that the problem is in ImageMagick that chokes on large images while trying to make thumbnails.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by nohuhu

AndrewD,

There's a line containing relative path to the actual flash object in links_swfuploader_header_one template and somehow this line was set to "/forum/clientscript/swfupload/swfupload.swf".

Ouch, sorry about that. Will fix in the next upload.

Originally Posted by nohuhu

AndrewD,
It seems that the problem is in ImageMagick that chokes on large images while trying to make thumbnails.

By default, LDM uses the GD image package (even if you are using imagemagick elsewhere). GD has a serious problem with making thumbnails from large files - I found once that it used over 50Mb memory to process a 5Mb image.

There is a new add on with version 2.3.0 so that LDM will use ImageMagick instead of GD. You may want to give this a try (test-newimagecode). The intention is to make this standard with the next release.

[nohuhu]

AndrewD,

i tried this extra and indeed it worked. thanks.

[Slave]

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Blimey, I've not been here for ages! I'm still stuck on 3.6 (Got the site just as I want it, no more changes until 4.0 I think) so I can't test anything at the moment but I just wanted to say it's lovely to see this mod still going.

Well done AndrewD!!

[AndrewD]

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Glad to hear from you again...

[ctrlbrk]

Please help. I've spent three days off and on pulling my hair out! I'm trying to get the hit parade to show the most popular entries and newest entries for *ALL* categories combined. One list, but it pulls data from every category.

It is only showing it from one category. So...to explain... on my main downloads page (the root of downloads) it shows the hit parade next to the entire category list, but the hit parade is only for one particular category --- not all of them combined.

I for the life of me cannot find where to control this or where I have set this.

Live hit parade on root:
http://forum.bigmiketrading.com/free_downloads/

The hit parade list is all from this one category:
http://forum.bigmiketrading.com/free...er/indicators/

Please help before I go completely mad!

Mike

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by ctrlbrk

Please help. I've spent three days off and on pulling my hair out! I'm trying to get the hit parade to show the most popular entries and newest entries for *ALL* categories combined. One list, but it pulls data from every category.

It is only showing it from one category. So...to explain... on my main downloads page (the root of downloads) it shows the hit parade next to the entire category list, but the hit parade is only for one particular category --- not all of them combined.

I for the life of me cannot find where to control this or where I have set this.

Live hit parade on root:
http://forum.bigmiketrading.com/free_downloads/

The hit parade list is all from this one category:
http://forum.bigmiketrading.com/free...er/indicators/

Please help before I go completely mad!

Mike

Happy to help, Mike. It will be easiest for me if I can do a bit of debugging on your site to find out where the error is happening. Would you send me a PM with details of an account with full vb admin privs (i.e. the ability to access the vb acp and install plugins).