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. The recent revision history is given in the first post of this thread.

Please use carefully and always backup your database before upgrading. Post reports of problems and suggestions for enhancements in this thread.

14.06.09 Version 2.3.0 is now the the officially-supported version. Works with 3.7 and vb 3.8. Please post comments in this thread

22.06.08 Version 2.2.9-post1 - This is the previous supported version. Works fine with all versions of vb 3.6 and vb 3.7. All standard features except profile integration and forum prefix selection work fine with vb 3.8.

[webspider]

Thanks for the reply.

So Usergroup permissions won't work. Okay no biggy.

[dilbert]

Andrew,

This continuies to be a terrific mod.
I just updated my site to 3.7, and I reinstalled all of LDM, and re-imported the xml.

I have two issues.

My footer seems to be stuck with info from an older footer. Isn't it using the vB footer?

Also, I have Ultimate Side Columns 2.0 installed and they don't show on the LDM pages. Any thoughts on why?

Thanks, Cliff

[RikiB]

Sorry to bring this back up but I just wanted to be clear. If I stream an external link through ldlm it will count against my bandwith on my host server? I switched to a VPS with bandwidth limits and I just need to make sure. Thanks!

Riki

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by webspider

Thanks for the reply.

So Usergroup permissions won't work. Okay no biggy.

Sorry if this is unclear. Usergroup permissions certainly do work. It's just that you have to use one of the LDM permissions systems - in-built and forums-based. LDM does not automatically extend specific forum permissions such as 'rights to download attachments'

In-built

Suppose you want to block 'unregistered users' from being able to see anything. You would go to LDM/admin/permissions and remove *can_view_category* and *can_access_link* from that usergroup.

If you wanted to block these users only from seeing anything in category XYZ. Then you would go to that category, edit it, go to the permission tab and remove the same permissions from this usergroup

There are a whole series of LDM permissions, and they all work on a usergroup basis.

Forums-based

This was the original permissions system built into the early versions of LDM. To use it, you choose one of your forums which has the correct access rights: LDM looks at the *can_view_forum* and *can_view_others_threads* forum permissions.

Then you use the add/edit category, add/edit entry forms and 'associate' your categories/entries with this forum using the relevant box on the form.

Subsequently, when a user tries to access that category/entry, LDM will look up these permissions from the forum and deny/grant access accordingly.

This mechanism will also pick up forum passwords - if the category/entry is asociated with a password-protected forum, then the user will be asked for that password.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by dilbert

Andrew,

This continuies to be a terrific mod.
I just updated my site to 3.7, and I reinstalled all of LDM, and re-imported the xml.

I have two issues.

My footer seems to be stuck with info from an older footer. Isn't it using the vB footer?

Also, I have Ultimate Side Columns 2.0 installed and they don't show on the LDM pages. Any thoughts on why?

Thanks, Cliff

Yes, LDM uses the vb footer, which gets included in the links_footer template. Have you patched that template by any chance - you may need to revert it.

I don't know about UIltimate Side Columns, but will check what is the problem.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by RikiB

Sorry to bring this back up but I just wanted to be clear. If I stream an external link through ldlm it will count against my bandwith on my host server? I switched to a VPS with bandwidth limits and I just need to make sure. Thanks!

Riki

If the LDM setting force_redirect is set to 0, then I imagine you will be charged for 2x the size of the external file - reading and writing, and 1x for local files but the location of the files stays hidden

If force_redirect is set to 1 or 2, then you will be charged no bandwidth for external files, but still 1x for local files, and you will also lose the security of hidden file handling

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by dilbert

Also, I have Ultimate Side Columns 2.0 installed and they don't show on the LDM pages. Any thoughts on why?

Thanks, Cliff

I did a clean install of Ultimate Side Columns 2.0 and it shows up straight away in LDM. Haven't dug around to look for possible reasons why it would fail.

[tekguru]

Andrew just been preparing to go live on the main site and just doing final testing on the test site.

We needed to change the style that the L&D uses for its theme and got the:

"Your submission could not be processed because a security token was missing or mismatched."

Any ideas?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by tekguru

Andrew just been preparing to go live on the main site and just doing final testing on the test site.

We needed to change the style that the L&D uses for its theme and got the:

"Your submission could not be processed because a security token was missing or mismatched."

Any ideas?

Did you have a pre-RC version installed with any of the templates patched? All the security tokens were added into the RC templates.

[tekguru]

Fixed in the config it was still set to use an old 3.6.9 style so in the end I reverted the templates in that style and then that allowed me to change the setting so all is fine now with the 3.7.0 skin