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 berayiwu5

Actually, AndrewD, the idea of giving unregistered users collectively an X amount of bandwidth usage everyday makes perfect sense to me.

I think you should keep collective bandwidth usage for unregistered users intact because of this kind of unpredictability. For registered users, bandwidth usage is more predictable. I would greatly appreciate it if you could reinstate this feature. But for file opening, I agree with you that it should be applied individually to each IP, registered or unregistered. Thank you. Please reconsider.

I changed this after a strong request from others. It will be easy to enable both approaches, perhaps by a new switch or a plugin. Hang in there.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Slave

Thanks AndrewD .. I've tried those files out and while it does look as if the display of categories and subcats are back to normal, the linkbits are still wrong.

The Tabular linkbit is still centering things (in IE only it seems) instead of aligning things to the left.

The Short linkbit is defaulting to 1 entry per row (with no setting in admin) but the details of the entry has a breakline in the middle and isn't filling in the whole row like it did before ..

http://www.yaxleyvillage.com/local_links.php?catid=62

See above to see what I mean re the short linkbit.

Hope that helps ..

Yes, same issue with the table linkbit (and also the featured bit), now fixed. I'd deliberately changed the short linkbit to make it look nicer for my own purposes, so I've reinstated the old 'short' bit and added a new 'shortcent' bit. Try these files (local_links.php; includes/local_links_include.php; and product.xml)

edited - Superseded.

[Slave]

That seems to have done the trick AndrewD .. thanks

BTW .. is it right that the report bad link image only shows when commenting on a link?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Slave

That seems to have done the trick AndrewD .. thanks

BTW .. is it right that the report bad link image only shows when commenting on a link?

You should only see the report bad link image if it's someone else's entry. If it's visible for your own entries in the comment page, that's a bug.

[Slave]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

You should only see the report bad link image if it's someone else's entry. If it's visible for your own entries in the comment page, that's a bug.

Most of my entries are entered using my admin account, it was when I was using my test account that I saw the report link image showing up, but only within the comments page.

Thinking about it, the comments page uses the Modern linkbit while I'm using the Tabular linkbit for most of my entries. So I'm guessing the report bad link image isn't working/showing on the Tabular linkbit ..

[Slave]

A little suggestion ..

Remember I asked for hits to contacts (non linked items) to be logged? This is working just fine at the moment, but when you look at the stats for hits within the admin area you get told there's been a hit, but not what the hit was for. It seems this is because it shows you the URL that has been clicked and as a contact doesn't have a URL nothing shows up. So perhaps change the stats page to show the name of the link as well as making the name click-able with the URL if there is one?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Slave

A little suggestion ..

Remember I asked for hits to contacts (non linked items) to be logged? This is working just fine at the moment, but when you look at the stats for hits within the admin area you get told there's been a hit, but not what the hit was for. It seems this is because it shows you the URL that has been clicked and as a contact doesn't have a URL nothing shows up. So perhaps change the stats page to show the name of the link as well as making the name click-able with the URL if there is one?

I realise that I could have a full time job writing software - wonder if I should quit the day job - will take a look at this, thanks.

[berayiwu5]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

I changed this after a strong request from others. It will be easy to enable both approaches, perhaps by a new switch or a plugin. Hang in there.

Thank you. I am looking forward to that.

[berayiwu5]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

I realise that I could have a full time job writing software - wonder if I should quit the day job - will take a look at this, thanks.

Andrew, you've done a terrific job with LDM. Not that you can survive on donations alone, but that I really want to donate a modest amount as a token of appreciation for the hard work you've put in. If you could set up a donation link, I'm sure other fans here would be willing to pitch in something.

[|oR|Greg]

I've donated before, it allows you into the "inner-sanctum" where thought powers LDM, not programming... it's neat. If I have time tonight to install it I will. And then I will ask 12 annoying questions about stupid little things that I should have done on my own, and then you will answer 6 of them, and I will figure the other 6 out all the while cursing you for not doing it all for me...