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.

[|oR|Greg]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

No problem, will sort out how to make this an option.

Who's better than you?

[WebmasterSimds]

Andrew

Sir, I am having a small problem. I have had this running for a long while. I upgraded the LDM system to the latest one when it came out. now i get weird messages. I think I remember how to correct this. but I cant remember. here is the message after somone posts a download.

"This page is not designed to be access directly."

if you can, or know how to fix this, can you please give me a clue how to fix this.

There is 1 more thing. and didnt notice this till someone pointed this out to me today. it seems every time we upgrade this LDM for some reason all of the pictures of the download has dissapeared on all of them.

the only way to correct it, is to go and press edit, and then just scroll down to the bottm and press submit and it will fix it. without any edits. its a weird weird one, I tried to look for a way to make sure the paths are ok, and other tings, but it seems that its a weird problem

Just in case for your FYI

VB Version is the latest release
Your version is the lates release

also my server stats

Kernel version 2.4.21-32.0.1.EL
Machine Type i686
Apache version 1.3.33 (Unix)
PERL version 5.8.0
PHP version 4.3.11
MySQL version 4.0.27-standard

Thanks in advance.

Ray

[WebmasterSimds]

Update..

After Re - Installing the Product xml it took out the message "This page is not designed to be access directly."

That took care of it, but the problem is that it keeps doing it after so many weeks. I carry a large load of downloads in Your program like over 2500 and growing. I am wondering if that may or may not have anyting to do with it??

I remember when I had a other junk portal "xoops" it could not handle the large downloads, hence the reason I had to change. but they could not come up with a solution for larger type database for downloads.

Again I am wondering if that may or may not be a problem

Thanks again

[xadoa]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Which linkbit are you using?

HI AndrewD,

hehe good question Andrew, i am a code sucker .. hehe i don't know what linkbit i am using, can u show me which one is that? ..

XD

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by WebmasterSimds

Andrew

Sir, I am having a small problem. I have had this running for a long while. I upgraded the LDM system to the latest one when it came out. now i get weird messages. I think I remember how to correct this. but I cant remember. here is the message after somone posts a download.

"This page is not designed to be access directly."

if you can, or know how to fix this, can you please give me a clue how to fix this.

I recall your report in October. I've never seen this message - there is no such message in LDM and I can't find it in the VBulletin code anywhere either.

I did a search on Google for the text "This page is not designed to be access directly." There are two hits, your report fror LDM and this report in the VB Events Forum archive (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/archive/i.../t-123416.html)

Lionel11. Oct 2006, 05:54
When I submit the Save Event button, I am getting this error:

link: http://www.mysite.com/forums/calendar.php?do=update&e=

This page is not designed to be access directly.


It looks is missing the info on the link, any idea what could casue this problem.

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Lionel11. Oct 2006, 06:21
Anyway, Gerakus I solved my issue. It was caused by the Talker Bot hack.

edited: - I took a look at the talker bot code. The message "This page is not designed to be access directly" appears at the start of one of its files. The code reads as follows:

if (!defined("THIS_SCRIPT") || (THIS_SCRIPT!="newreply" && THIS_SCRIPT!="newthread") )
{
    die("This page is not designed to be access directly.");
}

The code is called from at least one plugin called "Talkerbot - Include The Bot", which hooks into the newpost_complete hook in VB. The newpost_complete hook is used in the code to create new posts, which is called when LDM 'autocreates' threads.

So what I think is happening is the following:
- you've installed talker bot
- you've also installed the autocreate_threads extra for LDM
talker_bot is not expecting this and gives you the error message you see.

Unfortunately, it's not a problem that I can fix - you'll have to take this up with the author of talker_bot

Originally Posted by WebmasterSimds

There is 1 more thing. and didnt notice this till someone pointed this out to me today. it seems every time we upgrade this LDM for some reason all of the pictures of the download has dissapeared on all of them.

the only way to correct it, is to go and press edit, and then just scroll down to the bottm and press submit and it will fix it. without any edits. its a weird weird one, I tried to look for a way to make sure the paths are ok, and other tings, but it seems that its a weird problem

LDM creates a thumbnail whenever it thinks it needs one. If you've set up a 'thumbs_dir' on the admin page, it saves the thumbnail as a file in 'thumbs_dir' and keeps a record in the database. The problem you describe occurs when the record in the database points to a file which no longer exists, for example if the file structure for the website changes or (perhaps ) I have made a change in the logic. I don't know which is the case for your situation.

When you edit and save an entry, LDM always recreates the thumb, in case there are any changes.

One way to fix this for all entries is to go to LDM/admin/statistics/reset thumbs

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by xadoa

HI AndrewD,

hehe good question Andrew, i am a code sucker .. hehe i don't know what linkbit i am using, can u show me which one is that? ..

XD

I tried to find out for myself, but your site is rather interesting to say the least, and protected

Go to LDM/admin/settings and look for the entry called "template_linkbit" (Style used for displaying groups of entries)

Or if you've changed the configuration in any of your categories, do ldm/edit category/control settings/template linkbit

[WebmasterSimds]

Andrew,

Your a fantastic help. Yes it was the stupid talker bot (thats now Un Installed) and hopefully no one will want it back LOL

As for the second part the thumbs, it only happend when I upgraded this script. so you may have addidently added someting to it, or changed a piece of coding. but I went to the re set thumbs part and looked at it, it had like
(1211 [1199 cached]) so I reset it and hopefully that solved that part.

I do have the thumbs set to /images/thumbs so I know thats ok. thats why it puzzeled me in why it went and did that to the thumbs for all the downloads itself.

So basically should I always keep an eye on the cache for the thumbs? or not worry about it seeing i did a reset of it?

Thanks In Advance

[Tyegurl]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Why not just copy the zip.gif file as tar.gif?

because then people would think it was a rar file, not a tar zip file. I wanted it to be different than the rest.

Originally Posted by Slave

How about this .. ?

thanks so much I am giving it a shot now. well now tar and rar look the same but tar is bigger. Appreciate the help guys thanks.

Sorry took me so long to post.

[ansuk]

Is there any chance of a paid installation service?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by ansuk

Is there any chance of a paid installation service?

Plenty of chance of a free service, if you send me a PM with site details, an ftp account and a vb admin userid...

Just as long as it's not too strange a site