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.

[obmob]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

This caused me to lose a bit more hair (not much left).

The attached file modifies the import process to process kanji, etc, provided these are being handled in the form of extended html entities. (This is the default behaviour, as far as I can tell, but I'm not an expert on utf8 and the like.)

If you want to give it a try, be my guest. I'd appreciate a report. Just replace this file in your forum/includes directory. It doesn't change the export file; just processes the import file with a little more intelligence.

NB: This will only work if your php installation supports the *mbstring* extension (you can check by going to vb/admin/maintenance/phpinfo and scrolling down to look for that section).

Andrew is baldy now? >.<

I'm glad to tell you it worked perfectly! ^^

Thanks!!

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by sparklywater

Is it possible to run multiple 'LDM databases/directories' at the same time using a single installation of LDM, ie. one for 'links', one for 'downloads', one for 'picture-gallery', etc? I don't see the option to do this, can someone please direct me to the relevant info?

LDM is not set up to run completely separate directories at the same time from the same code files, although I think it could be hacked to do so without much difficulty.

Why not simply set up separate base categories for links, downloads, photos, etc, and then provide direct url links into these categories? You can easily set up different access permissions, settings, etc for teh different categories.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by obmob

Andrew is baldy now? >.<

Increasingly so

Originally Posted by obmob

I'm glad to tell you it worked perfectly! ^^

Thanks!!

I'll find a way to incorporate this into the next release as a standard feature.

[dkny]

Hi
first off I love your product, it's great and have been using it for a year on 3.6.

I upgraded my forum over the weekend and uploaded your product to the latest version. I cant get it to work though, in settings it under where my files are stored (which I didn't change), it gives me the following error:

upload_dir : /forum/uploads/99/
Cannot access or create directory /forum/uploads/99/ [/forum/uploads/99/ not within permitted open_basedir /home/ncc: /usr/lib/php: /usr/local/lib/php: /tmp]

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by dkny

Hi
first off I love your product, it's great and have been using it for a year on 3.6.

I upgraded my forum over the weekend and uploaded your product to the latest version. I cant get it to work though, in settings it under where my files are stored (which I didn't change), it gives me the following error:

upload_dir : /forum/uploads/99/
Cannot access or create directory /forum/uploads/99/ [/forum/uploads/99/ not within permitted open_basedir /home/ncc: /usr/lib/php: /usr/local/lib/php: /tmp]

From the look of your error message, you've got the LDM admin setting *local_file_root* turned off (i.e. store files outside the web directory), and your web server has open_basedir set, so that PHP is only allowed to access files in the named directories. The message says that your upload directory is not within the space allowed by open_basedir.

If everything was working before and none of these settings have changed, I find that strange.

I imagine that you mean to have *local_file_root* turned on (presumably you want to store your uploads in a subdirectory of your forums directory). Easiest approach is
* clear the upload directory and save the settings
* set local_file_root on and save the settings
* reset the upload directory

[roymogg]

Hi Andrew

This mod went in a treat - still playing with the layouts before I go live.

I have had a problem with using the mod to include asx media files get a white screen when I select a media file - have uploaded the product as normal from the extras director and all seems OK (also added the asx to attachments).

However I cannot access the 'import radio-stations admin tab as I (as administrator) am advised I do not have permissions. I cannot see where this is set in the settings permissions area.

Can you help point me in the right direction.

cheers

Roy

[Bexter]

Ok, so i've got this installed on my site, it's great.
However, im also an admin on another site which has this installed. The main admin installed it there. Now when adding files to them both I've noticed that on his site, I'm able to upload an image as well for the file, but I cant get that on my site. Ive looked through all the settings on both sites and changed pretty much all the settings, except the ones which I want customised for my site and I know have nothing to do with it. They dont have any extra plugins installed, I downloaded the latest version thinking that could be why, but nope, still dont get the upload an image option. Is there something I might be missing :S.

[dkny]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

From the look of your error message, you've got the LDM admin setting *local_file_root* turned off (i.e. store files outside the web directory), and your web server has open_basedir set, so that PHP is only allowed to access files in the named directories. The message says that your upload directory is not within the space allowed by open_basedir.

If everything was working before and none of these settings have changed, I find that strange.

I imagine that you mean to have *local_file_root* turned on (presumably you want to store your uploads in a subdirectory of your forums directory). Easiest approach is
* clear the upload directory and save the settings
* set local_file_root on and save the settings
* reset the upload directory

thank you that helped, works fine now.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Bexter

Ok, so i've got this installed on my site, it's great.
However, im also an admin on another site which has this installed. The main admin installed it there. Now when adding files to them both I've noticed that on his site, I'm able to upload an image as well for the file, but I cant get that on my site. Ive looked through all the settings on both sites and changed pretty much all the settings, except the ones which I want customised for my site and I know have nothing to do with it. They dont have any extra plugins installed, I downloaded the latest version thinking that could be why, but nope, still dont get the upload an image option. Is there something I might be missing :S.

The 'Add Entry' form has up to four fields for url/url upload/image/image upload, see attached picture. Check which of these are visible for you.

The two Image fields only appear when the setting *link_imagesize* is >0.

The two Upload fields only appear when uploading is both enabled and allowed for the current user. It's enabled if the *upload_enabled* setting is on; it's allowed if the LDM permission *can_upload_files* is on for the curent user group.

Get back to me if this doesn't help.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by roymogg

Hi Andrew

This mod went in a treat - still playing with the layouts before I go live.

I have had a problem with using the mod to include asx media files get a white screen when I select a media file - have uploaded the product as normal from the extras director and all seems OK (also added the asx to attachments).

White screens usually mean a php error which gets caught up with vbulletin's screen handling. To find out if this is the case, go to vbulletin/admin/options/cookies and html headers and unset the 'gzip html output' option. Then try again and see if you get something other than the white screen. I'll also investigate.

Originally Posted by roymogg

I cannot access the 'import radio-stations admin tab as I (as administrator) am advised I do not have permissions. I cannot see where this is set in the settings permissions area.

My mistake - I've been too rigorous with the error checking. Will post a fix as soon as possible. Sorry.