Major Additions - DownloadsII

There's a vB4 version of this mod available: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=231427

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.

Because a lot of people keep on asking this:
This mod works with any version of vBulletin 3.7.x and 3.8.x!

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



Instructions & Support

You can find an installation manual in the zip package (Readme-Install.txt).

We try to answer most questions asked in this thread. Please don't send any pm's if we don't ask for them, as we said we try to give a high level of support in this thread. 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 6 screenshots of the front-end and back-end (AdminCP part) of the DownloadsII software. You can see the newest version in action at the Minatica.be Downloads (Dutch).

Changelog (version 5.1.2)

Jelle

• Backported CSRF security fix from the vB 4 release
• Added permission check for Update Counters
• Fixed PHP warnings when running PHP 5.3
• Removed the imagecreatefrombmp() function. It doesn't exist.
• Added permission check for rating submissions

You can find all the changelogs of this and older versions here.

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

This is probably the second most asked question. Have a look at this post for the solution.

It doesn't work with GARS?!

If you also use the latest version of GARS, you will get the "Fields marked in RED must be filled in!" error when uploading a file. I provided a fix here on the GARS forums.

Addons

We are offering 3 addons for this mod at the moment (have a look at the bottom of this post for them). DownloadsII contains 5 hook locations for the vBulletin plugin systems, so you can add extra functionality without file edits.

Do you want to help expanding DownloadsII (if you are a coder)? Check out this post!

Notes

• ecDownloads Buddy is NOT compatible with this version. If you are using the Buddy, you should UNINSTALL it before installing DownloadsII ver 5.x.x. The Buddy's features are now integrated into DownloadsII.
• DownloadsII is a direct derivative work from Ron1n's ecDownloads.

Addons

• DownloadsII ver 5.0 vbAdvanced Add-On
• DownloadsII PM moderation notification
• DownloadsII Create New Thread Add-On
• DownloadsII Simple RSS Feed Add-On
• DownloadsII[Add-On] - Upload Rules

[Hornstar]

Originally Posted by RS_Jelle

I thought about adding a "most popular downloads this week" function in v6

A timeline would be more difficult, then you should keep storing ALL the downloads in your downloads log. For large sites this is impossible.

That would be really good to have, most popular downloads this week.

[blind-eddie]

I am having no problems with this in 3.6.4, works flawlessly.

[cookiepants]

Ack!

I tried to import this product and when it did, my whole forums have gone to white -- nothing. Any idea what happened? This is the ONLY thing I did.

edited to add:
Totally blank on FireFox.
I can see it on explorer, but I can't log in or get to the admin panel.

[Matt6908]

Originally Posted by Matt6908

I seem to be having trouble when I try to change a usergroup's permission. I get an SQL error, this is a screen shot of what it looks like.

http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/9...a9c90bcgb7.jpg

Any ideas???

Any help is appreciated.

[blind-eddie]

Originally Posted by cookiepants

Ack!

I tried to import this product and when it did, my whole forums have gone to white -- nothing. Any idea what happened? This is the ONLY thing I did.

edited to add:
Totally blank on FireFox.
I can see it on explorer, but I can't log in or get to the admin panel.

I had this same problem add another hack, whole site went white, couldnt log in to site or adminpc. I contacted vbulliten, they inreturn told me it was from a plugin I added and they dont support sites using mods not approved by vbulliten. But they did tell me to go to my site via ftp and to do the message below, but that didnt work. I then find out that somehow I overloaded my servers hard drive & it failed. To make matters even worse all my backups had corrupt files. Server hard drive was going bad way before I enter it. I tried everything to get it back, but ended up having to re-build. I lost 1000's, & 1000's of hours of work. Everything was rebuilt without being able to use any files from my old site folder,because they were corrupt. I was upset needless to say, but what could I do?
Listed below is what vbulliten.com told me to do, Hopefully this will help you pin point which plugin crashed your site. Good Luck.

from vbulliten:
Please disable all plugins on your board and tell us if the problem
persists.

Edit your config.php file and add the following line after <?php

define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true);

Then reupload config.php to your forum's includes folder.

As for reading line numbers, there ae several free programs that allow
this. My text editor of choice is TextPad. http://www.textpad.com


You should be able to log into your admincp, reactivate each plugin seperatly and refreshing your site after each reactivation to see if that particular plugin was the one causing the problem. Once you find it un-install it. Good luck, Hope this will help you out.

[cookiepants]

Thanks so much! My web admin restarted the server and it seemed to help. now I'm scared to reinstall the Downloads II, but they are really an important part of our site so I guess I'll give it a try.

[SKULL1985]

Very nice mod would like to use it but befor i install this can any one confrem this works for version 3.6.4?

[blind-eddie]

I use it on 3.6.4 , no problems

[cookiepants]

Okay. My web provider rebooted the server. Then I uninstalled the previous version of Downloads II. I reinstalled it, and all is well. However, it no longer recognizes the directory of downloads. The path is:

/public_html/b/downloads/

Then for the Download URL, I put in for the relative path:
/downloads
and I get:

Warning: is_dir() [function.is-dir]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/downloads/) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/sewmama/:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp) in /downloads.php on line 157

If I put:

Then I get:

The download directory does not exist!

I have these files in this folder, which I chmodded to 777. They are all .pdf files. I can link to them directly so I know they are there.

Any help? Thanks ever so much!!

[blind-eddie]

I think You need to re-read readme & start over.