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Posted: 30 October 2008 11:13 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 19 ]  
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Thanks for this Brad. I’ve been off doing other projects away from EE, but will be coming back to some EE projects (and this module) fairly soon I imagine. Glad to see you got the final version finished!

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Posted: 02 November 2008 01:39 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 20 ]  
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OK, a really, really dumb question. Where do I get LinkLocker 2? It is just the solution I need right now. But I am a bit of a noob and don’t know where to find the module download.

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Posted: 02 November 2008 01:47 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 21 ]  
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Just send a PM to Brad Street (see first message in thread)

Please PM if you’d like to purchase. License is just $30 per site and includes the LinkLocker 2 module and LinkLocker Stats plugin. Note - if you don’t require click tracking or member download tracking, save some money and use the ”free” version.

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Posted: 04 November 2008 05:46 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 22 ]  
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Are the stats accessible in a central location in the CP?

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Posted: 04 November 2008 06:03 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 23 ]  
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Yes - Clicking on Linklocker in the Modules section brings up the CP which has 3 areas - Documentation, Link Statistics, and Member Statistics.
Documentation:
Shows documentation and usage examples.
Link Statistics:
Shows each “actual” link to a file separated by group/label, along with how many “locked” links have been generated for that link/group/label, how many downloads have been made of the file, broken down futher to downloads by members and downloads by guests.
Member Statistics:
Shows each “actual” link to a file separated by group/label, the member who a download link was provided to, when the link was created, when the link expires, how many times the link has been downloaded, time and date the file was last downloaded, and a link to “reset” which effectively removes the entry from the database, allowing a link to be regenerated for the user.

Hope that helps somewhat.

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Posted: 07 November 2008 02:13 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 24 ]  
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Brad,

One of the things I want to do is to embed videos in a few EE pages—QuickTime and Flash—and hide the links so that the video files (served from Amazon S3) cannot be hijacked by other sites.

Is that something LinkLocker does?

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Posted: 07 November 2008 04:26 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 25 ]  
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Ron,

That’s difficult to say. It is something that you should be able to test with the free version of LinkLocker, my guess is that it would depend on whether the quicktime/flash player would use the encrypted links. As of yet, I have not tested such a solution, but would welcome input from anyone else who may have.

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Posted: 12 November 2008 10:37 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 26 ]  
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Can we also have an additional small feature which can actually make this module a great one? smile

I want redirect URLs as encrypted URLs..so that if I want to display an affiliate URL on a blog post, and I dont want to show to the user the actualy affiliate URL..linklocker will encrypt it the same way, and checks on clicking that if its simply a URL, redirects.

For example _ I used this:

a href ” {exp:linklocker url http://yahoo.com expires=“0” iplock=“off” target=“_New” title=”{title}” 

Then my URL is encrypted properly but when I click on it, it asks to save the file..where as it should simply go to that domain.

Is it possible?

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Posted: 12 November 2008 10:52 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 27 ]  
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Never mind..I did it myself by adding a new MODE in the mod file. It worked awesome smile

Thanks for a great module..

Deep Arora - 13 November 2008 03:37 AM

Can we also have an additional small feature which can actually make this module a great one? smile

I want redirect URLs as encrypted URLs..so that if I want to display an affiliate URL on a blog post, and I dont want to show to the user the actualy affiliate URL..linklocker will encrypt it the same way, and checks on clicking that if its simply a URL, redirects.

For example _ I used this:

a href ” {exp:linklocker url http://yahoo.com expires=“0” iplock=“off” target=“_New” title=”{title}” 

Then my URL is encrypted properly but when I click on it, it asks to save the file..where as it should simply go to that domain.

Is it possible?

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Posted: 13 November 2008 11:25 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 28 ]  
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Glad to hear you manged to find a solution smile  Thanks for using the module.

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Posted: 21 November 2008 06:41 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 29 ]  
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LinkLocker has been updated to version 2.2. Features in this version include pagination for Link Statistics and Member Statistics areas (for those who have a LOT of links), configuration information is moved from the database to the config file, numerous bug fixes, and the ability to integrate with my soon to be released “Digital Commerce” module to lock links of purchased downloadable files (sshhh…it’s a “secret”). If you have any questions or comments about the module, please post them to the LinkLocker 2 thread. To purchase the module ($30 USD) please PM me. All of those who have purchased the module, please check your paypal registered email address for the updated files.

Oh, and of course, thanks for using LinkLocker 2!

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Posted: 02 December 2008 05:26 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 30 ]  
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OMG I’m SO excited to have found out about this module!!  Can’t wait to try it.  Sweeet!

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Posted: 22 December 2008 11:48 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 31 ]  
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Coming January 2009 - version 2.4 of the LinkLocker Module. It has been coded and I’m finishing up testing. One of the most noticeable improvements is that LinkLocker will no longer require allow_url_fopen to be set in the php.ini file. Now, if it is not set, the module will attempt to use curl() functions to get the file.

I’ve also added a new parameter to the tag: path. With this, you may simply specify the path to the file (relative to the site root) instead of a url. This is now the recommended way of using the module if the files are maintained on the same server as the site, as it avoids any issues with allow_url_fopen, curl overhead, or .htaccess complications.

Thanks to all of you who have made great suggestions for improving this module.

Happy Holidays!

Brad

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Posted: 26 December 2008 11:40 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 32 ]  
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Brad,

I am looking forward to 2.4. In the meantime I am having some issues with 2.2. I had to move my client’s site to a new server and in the move have encountered a couple of issues. I ended up removing and reinstalling LinkLocker to restore the function. It now correctly hides the file location, but when I click on the file to download the browser opens another window and nothing further happens. The file does not download as expected.

Any assistance you can provide will be greatly appreciated.

thanks.

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Posted: 26 December 2008 12:33 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 33 ]  
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Brad,

False alarm. Another person actually changed the directory names on a few of the files. Having corrected that, everything is working fine now. Keep up the good work.

Forrest

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Posted: 26 December 2008 04:44 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 34 ]  
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Forrest,

Glad to hear you got it sorted so quickly! Thanks for purchasing and using the module - and happy holidays!

Brad

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Posted: 02 January 2009 02:50 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 35 ]  
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I cannot get two parameters to work correctly: restricted_groups and restricted_url.

I’m embedding my link inside an exp:query tag, and passing it a couple parameters - which works perfectly fine as long as I’m not using those two parameters. Here is an example of how I’m using it (this is simplified and stripped-down for the example):

<table id="transactions" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<
tr>
 <
th>Item</th>
 <
th>Purchase Date</th>
 <
th>Download</th>
</
tr>
{exp:query sql="SELECT fields FROM table WHERE condition"}
<tr {switch="|class='alt'"}>
 <
td><a href="/path-to/docs/{q_url_title}/" title="Read Docs">{q_entry_title}</a></td>
 <
td>{q_purchase_date format="%Y-%m-%d"}</td>
 <
td>{embed="group/_file" file="{q_file}" label="{q_url_title}"}</td>
</
tr>
{/exp:query}
</table

Then in the embed I have this:

<a href="{exp:linklocker url='http://www.mysite.com/secret/path/{embed:file}' 
expires='0' iplock='off' deny_hotlink='on' label='{embed:label}'}"
>Download</a

That works perfectly fine. I’d prefer to have a little more protection, must to make sure that only members from the right groups have access, however, the following does not work:

<a href="{exp:linklocker url='http://www.mysite.com/secret/path/{embed:file}' 
expires='0' iplock='off' deny_hotlink='on' label='{embed:label}' 
restricted_groups='1|7' restricted_url='http://www.mysite.com/member/signup/'}"
>Download</a

The minute I add those, the URLs always show as the restricted URLs, whether I’m logged in as a super admin, or logged in as a member of group 7. This isn’t a dealbreaker for how I’m using Linklocker right now, but I would like to know why those two parameters are not working when I try to use them.

Any thoughts? Am I missing something obvious?

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Posted: 02 January 2009 03:00 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 36 ]  
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At first glance it looks like a typo in the docs. Try restricted_level instead of restricted groups.

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