Extensive Download Manager for Joomla! with special functions!
Update: Now also with norwegian and bulgarian languages. You find this files in my download area!
Here is the next release! Please read the changelog for information to the 1.3 release!
NEW:
- all language are now files in two formats (ANSI for Joomla 1.0 and utf-8 for Joomla 1.5)
- new config option for JComments integration.
- integration the JComments functionality in the downloads details view (thanks to com.ua).
- new paramters in config: now you can config the plugin mos_jdownloads_file when its installed. (Thanks for the excellent plugin by pelma.)
- new parameter in config: for the Supervision function from the download folders: only listed file extension are monitored
- new option in config: auto publish new found downloads yes/no
- new placeholder in downloads details view: {created_by_title} {created_by_value} {modified_by_title} {modified_by_value} {modified_date_title} {modified_date_value}
- new option in config for default category symbol
- new option in config for default download symbol
- new option in config: view categories in alphabetical order: default/asc/desc
- new placeholder in layout: downloads detail {download_time}. When you use this placeholder - Visitors will see the estimated time for the downloads (thanks to Markus Daugs (
http://www.game-check.de) for this function). NOTE: this is not supported as multilanguage.
- new feature in downloads list (backend): you can copy marked downloads to other (or self) categories
- you can use files from external servers as download source (e.g.
http://www.myServer.com/files/file007.zip). It will add the downloads number and send emails after download. If you use the collected download function, the extern downloads is not included in the download and musst be downloaded seperatly
- now, you can add two external mirror links for the download. This can be used in the download details view.
- two new mini symbols added for the downloads layout - price/filesize (thanks to pelma for the pics).
CHANGED:
- all language definitionen are changed from .xml to install.php. So this version is the first multilanguage installation release!
- corrected default layout for download details view
- jD versions control has been moved from language files to the config params
- layouts the sample images are updatet- the joomfish content .xml files are renamed
- for compatiblety with joomfish 2.x version
FIXED:
- included a little security fix in the summary function
- menu pic (jD symbol) has transparent background
- bug in the check the url function (
http://) (thanks to pelma)
- bug with Download is "NEW" (thanks to pelma)
- unfrequently problems with "logout" after download
- bug in sended mail over downloads (missing user data in mail)
- warning: Call-time pass-by-reference
- number of subcategories only show when it exists in the category list on the frontend
- problems with edit descriptions in backend with Joomla 1.5 (added slash characters)
- problems with open short tags
- unfrequently problems with download zip files with IE 7 users
- after update no download layout is active
- to short maxlength defined in some input fields
- and many other little things...
The new mos_jdownloads_file plugin is in the moment only for Joomla 1.0 and you can it download on my Site.
Feature list from jDownloads 1.2
* Using of subcategories/subdirectories
* Directory structure similar to the category structure
* Detail view for downloads
* Revising of download function
* Protection of the download-directories
* Layout managment for easy customizable
* Frontend Upload-Formular
* Sitenavigation on frontend
* Searchfunction on frontend
* highly customizable with jD configuration parameters
* optional: user can select all files from a categorie for "mass-downloads" (the user can select downloads: they will be packed in a single temp download zip file).
* optional: View download summary before downloading
* optional: e-Mail notification for done downloads including user-data and filelist
* Backup of the jDownloads database
* Restore of the jDownloads database
* Access rights for categories (including subdirectories)
* Frontend could be set offline in administration mode
* Edit language file in the backend
* Edit CSS-file in the backend
* included JoomFish xml-files for multilanguage websites
* and many more
Fixed in this Release:
* sum files in categories list
* Access right in view of the Subcategories in the Frontend not always correctly.
Included english, turkish, german, russia, dutch, french and brazilian_portuguese language files.
*) The function for a update from 1.1 alpha works only, when subdirectories have not the same name, as the categories - have you not subdirs in 1.1 or with other names as the categories titles, you must nothing note! Please use not a backup file from 1.1 alpha for a restore in v1.2.