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.

[Alfa1]

Does this add on work well with PHP5.2?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Does this add on work well with PHP5.2?

yes

[|oR|Greg]

So I guess this is just useful for a website links directory then?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by |oR|Greg

So I guess this is just useful for a website links directory then?

I read your original message, but you seem to have edited it.

The LDM data entry form includes a field for an image. If this is filled in, the linkbit then displays a thumbnail. In a few cases, LDM will 'auto-complete' that field, e.g. if the main entry points to an image, or if it points to an mp3 file and the getid3 code available as an extra has been uploaded.

When LDM is being used as a links directory, the request was to 'auto-create' a thumbnail image of the site itself, using one of the available web services.

There are quite a number of these services - I picked three, just to try out the range of possibilities.

[obmob]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

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

Andrew is the man or what?

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Sorry, I don't quite understand your question.

Do you mean the title bar at the top of the browser? - maybe you could post a screen shot to show me.

Oh, i think he want's to display the title of the file in the browser title bar.

So far, if you enter to the details of an entry, you see "LDM - Category - Website Name"

He wants to show something like "LDM - File Title - Website Name" o think so

[Zowners]

Hey andrew when I create a new usergroup and change a users primary usergroup to it users get an error when viewing the downloads pages. Error is shown below.

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /includes/local_links_include.php on line 1792

Doesnt show for the default usergroups i.e registerd users and if I make the created usergroup and additional usergroup to a member the problem doesnt appear.

[|oR|Greg]

Andrew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I got a new JukeBox image for you. I made it approx same size. 1 is a GIF, and 1 is an alpha transparent PNG.

Enjoy!

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by |oR|Greg

Andrew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I got a new JukeBox image for you. I made it approx same size. 1 is a GIF, and 1 is an alpha transparent PNG.

Enjoy!

Thanks - that's just great

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Zowners

Hey andrew when I create a new usergroup and change a users primary usergroup to it users get an error when viewing the downloads pages. Error is shown below.

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /includes/local_links_include.php on line 1792


Doesnt show for the default usergroups i.e registerd users and if I make the created usergroup and additional usergroup to a member the problem doesnt appear.

Thanks for the report. It's triggered by the bandwidh/downloads code, which works on a per-usergroup basis.

You can fix the problem by doing LDM->admin->download and bandwidth quotas->go which will re-size the relevant information array. I'm put a proper fix into the next upload.

[WebmasterSimds]

Andrew,

I think I may have found a small problem with someting, that you may want to look into, for some reason, Some people who were crazy enough to download IE& because Microsuck said so. I have found that some people are having problems with downloads, they get a extensive code. Here are a few screenshot for ya



No looking at that it almost looks like its a IE problem. or some settings. what do you think??