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.

[obmob]

Welcome Andrew! Hope you had a nice time.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by obmob

Welcome Andrew! Hope you had a nice time.

Thanks! We had a great time, including the pleasure of your country (we were in the Pyrenees for the first week).

[zooki]

Andrew, I realise you are busy, please help .

The problem is stated few posts above, have been trying to get it to work. My new downloads which are scanned in from local directory are dated 01-01-1970 If i edit the filename and change the date, then it does show up as the latest download!

But, how do i get it to automatically give the file latest date?

Im on latest Vb3.6 and also ldm 2.25
thanks.....

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by zooki

Andrew, I realise you are busy, please help .

The problem is stated few posts above, have been trying to get it to work. My new downloads which are scanned in from local directory are dated 01-01-1970 If i edit the filename and change the date, then it does show up as the latest download!

But, how do i get it to automatically give the file latest date?

Im on latest Vb3.6 and also ldm 2.25
thanks.....

I thought you had probably used the admin scan function. The date setting is broken in that function in 2.2.5. It's fixed in 2.2.6.

[zooki]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

I thought you had probably used the admin scan function. The date setting is broken in that function in 2.2.5. It's fixed in 2.2.6.

Ok thanks, I really appreciate the mod you have made

[WritersBeat]

AndrewD I have a problem when submitting links.

When submitted it says "this page is not meant to be accessed directly" or something by the text of that. Can you help me fix this?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by WritersBeat

AndrewD I have a problem when submitting links.

When submitted it says "this page is not meant to be accessed directly" or something by the text of that. Can you help me fix this?

I can certainly take a look - send me a PM with details of your board + a username with VB admin privs and I will see what I can find.

[chorton]

I am trying to get the genres to show in vbadvanced. Everything is working fine on our test board. In the wikis you state
"By default, the ldm_hot and ldm_new modules do not show the name of the category in which the entries appear. If you want to display this, edit the modules and change $show_catname to 1 "

I can not find that code in either file. Is there a certain spot i need to add this too?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by chorton

I am trying to get the genres to show in vbadvanced. Everything is working fine on our test board. In the wikis you state
"By default, the ldm_hot and ldm_new modules do not show the name of the category in which the entries appear. If you want to display this, edit the modules and change $show_catname to 1 "

I can not find that code in either file. Is there a certain spot i need to add this too?

Sorry about that - this facility was introduced in version 2.2.6, and I suppose you are running 2.2.5.

As far as I can tell, it's straightforward to patch the change back into 2.2.5. I attach the two vba module files from 2.2.6 (the assignment to show_catname is on line 10 of the two files), and give below the modified version of the links_vbalinks template.

<tr>
<td class="alt1">
<div style="float:right"><span class="smallfont">$linkhits</span></div>
<span class="smallfont">$linktypebit<if condition="$show_catname"> $linkcatname </if><if condition="$linkstatus<=0">$linkname<else />$linkurllink</if></span>
</td>
</tr>

[WritersBeat]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

I can certainly take a look - send me a PM with details of your board + a username with VB admin privs and I will see what I can find.

Is it absolutely nessecary for admin access? Sorry a little protective. If so yes, but before I do let me give you more details.

It happens after I click "submit" and the ajax form shows up with please wait or something (the text) then the page local_link_actions.php loads with the text "this page is not supposed to be accessed directly".

And that's what happens.