Major Additions - DownloadsII

DownloadsII

DownloadsII is a download database that integrates into vBulletin. It allows you to upload files, add images to them, create categories, link to external files - and more. It is very flexible and has many options.

It's also coded 100% XHTML 1.0 Transitional valid, just like vBulletin itself.



Instructions & Support

Requires vBulletin 4.0.4 or higher. Not fully compatible with lower vB 4 versions.
It works fine with both the new editor in vB 4.1.4 or higher and the old one in previous vB versions.

Read the instructions in the next two posts before installing/upgrading this mod!

You can find an installation/upgrade manual in the zip package (Readme.txt).

I try to answer most questions asked in this thread. Please don't send any pm's if I don't ask for them. Don't forget to click the install link, so you will receive important update notifications.

Screenshots & Live demo

At the bottom of this post, you can find some screenshots of the front-end and back-end (AdminCP part) of the DownloadsII software.

You can find a live demo on my own site: Minatica.be Downloads (Dutch).
Though keep in mind that we are running a restyled and modified version of it.

Changelog (version 6.0.9)

Jelle

• Added support for vB 4.1.8 bit processing with 'each' construct (backwards compatible)
• Fixed comma listing for vB 4.1.8 (using "old" method)

Older changelogs are included in the zip package.

Help!!! I can't upload large files??

This is probably the most asked question. It's mostly caused by some default PHP settings: check "PHP Max Post Size" and "PHP Maximum Upload Size" at your AdminCP home.

Then have a look at this post for the solution to up these values.
Also have a look at this post at vB.com (but ignore the MySQL part as DownloadsII is only using the file system).

Add-ons

There are currently no official add-ons. Unofficial add-ons are listed below.

[Hippy]

Originally Posted by rexxxy

Anyone can tell me how to do this?

search your template set for
#sidebar_container youll find this stylevar "forum_sidebar_width"
then find it in the stylevar
it's to 270px I believe
youll have to play with the settings

you may also have to decrease
#content_container #content same stylevar with some vb:math and some padding..
good luck

[Nelson58]

Received this message trying to upload files of 17M:
"The file(s) uploaded were too large to process."
File is a PHP file.

Maximum limit for PHP filesize on the server is 64M
Maximum limit for PHP files on my VB is set for unlimited (0)
Maximum limit for my group Admin is set to -1 (unlimited).

What am I missing please to fix this?

Thanks!!

Nelson

[sadaar]

First of all, GREAT mod and I appreciate all your hard work. Thank you.

Is there a way to export all the downloads information and then import it into another site? I am recreating my site and this is some important data I wish to be able to keep.

[Marios858]

Hello , i use this mod more than a year , iam very happy , i have two questions.

1) Is there any option to set the path to server different for some categories i need ?
2) Is there any limit on the folder i have in server for the files ? For example i have 1 folder more than 5 GB , and almost 2000 files , is that affect the stable of the download center ?

Thanks A lot

Regards Marios.

[ub.ch]

Heya!

Thanks for the great Addon, but unfortunately I can't seem to get it to work...

I installed everything and added some extentions, but everytime I try to add a new file I get a "blank" error message.
It just says: "The following errors occurred when this file was submitted:" and then nothing

can you help me out please?

THANKS!

[ub.ch]

Found it! I forgot to add the mime type - now everything works
thanks!

[the_bolo]

Hi, Hoping you can help me.

We had been using Downloads on our site for quite some time, however I think since upgrading to VB4.2 it appears the menu items for 'manage files' etc have gone missing.

Can you advice what I can look at to fix the issue? I've seen other resorted to create nav items themselves but that can't be the official method to enable this product to work on 4.2 is it ?

Also my moderators have told me that unapproved posts used to appear in red and approved in blue, this feature also seems to have been lost somewhere.

Thanks.

[Mobo]

The navbar stuff has to be manually created as per this post.

[fai99al99]

if just this HACK become friendly with SEO thats would be realy great
like adding tags . friendly urls ... etc

[SnaKe |WiH|]

Hey all,
I need some help I have been trying to get this to work and it is busting my stones! For some reason, I can not upload files even though I have permissions. Let me elaborate.

Permission group 1: Full permissions, unlimited up/download
Permission group 2. View permissions, no up or down (right now), but up/down set at 100/250
Permission group 3 and 4: same as 2

If I remove permission groups 2-4 I can upload without issue. If I change permission group 2-4 up/download to 10000/250 I can upload.

My issue is that I want ONE permission group (Downloader/Uploader permission group) to rule over the others. Does this mod not let one group override the other? Or, does this group take the lowest permission group?

Finally, in the permission usergroup settings for up/download, MB should mean megabyte?....and when I try to upload a 4.3kb file is when it is telling me I have exceeding the daily limit (but when changed to 10000, I can upload that same file).