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

[hyperspin]

Wanted to thank the coder for this excellent mod. We use this on our site for a while and it is very heavily used. I really LOVE the ability to set a time between downloads for different usergroups. My members have asked for a couple of things regarding this mod... So, I have a couple small questions and also a couple of small suggestions for the next version if at all possible.
Question 1:
How would I get ALL downloads to sort by Alpha?

Request 1:
I am not sure if it has been requested or not, but for the next version my members would like to be able to have alphabetical navigation. Perhaps instead of page numbers be able to jump to jump to files that begin with the letter A for instance. A, B, C, D, E, F, etc...

Request 2:
I would also like to see a field that would be on the submission screen that can be added by the uploader tha can point to a "Support" type thread. On my site, we require users to create an announcement/discussion thread before submitting an upload. I would like to be able for people when downloading a file to see (and be able to click) the link to the "support" thread on the forums.

Request 3:
An option to create a new thread in a specific forum when a new download is added would be nice as well. I know that there is an add on for this, but official support would be nice.

Again, Thank you very much for this mod!

[Zia]

I have a req. too
downloadsII will be able to browse/listing files for external host-
i have two diff. webhost - i put files on my 2nd host..
it will be nice if this mod can import/list files from 2nd host with permission..

pls give a thought about it

[RS_Jelle]

Originally Posted by RTMdotORG

i would like to add this with vbcredits any of those, such as vbexperience etc....

can you help me out jelle?

I might be working on this after my exams, as someone else also requested this.

Originally Posted by Kadafi420

I got a few questions for v6, hope you don't mind me asking.

1. Will there be options to allow comment approval on downloads?
2. Will there be a dead link report button?
3. Will there be comment reporting?

1. No, not at this moment though. But comments will be improved (quick reply editor, better permissions, ability to edit them).
2 + 3. There will be definitely a general report button for each file. So you can use it for the comments too. I'm not sure if I'm going to add another button per comment.

Originally Posted by Robbed

Ment the downloads log

I had it set to 5 days and I still had a year of downloads in the log.

I pruned it manually, it was taking up some space. Any reason why it wouldn't clear when the hourly cron job runs?

As you may want to keep your statistics. That's the point about statistics, otherwise they would be useless
vBulletin itself is also logging registration, new thread, post, ... stats.

Originally Posted by RTMdotORG

ive searched this thread and cant find any help...
i want the top contributor and all that to show on forumhome like in the options..
but it doesnt..
can you give me the manual edits plz?

That's not possible at this moment. But there's a vBadvanced CMPS add-on and you can integrate the CMPS on your forumhome.

Some forumhome integration might be added in the future. As 5.1.0 already integrates in the navbar (button, search), postbit and user profile (stats, list).

Originally Posted by gnrx

Hello.
I have installed DownloadsII 5.1.0.
I view now that, my forum, in downloads, not appears the credits, any credit, and I don't know if this, is because I installed a translation. How can made for appears the credits?

In other "problem", I view in other forums that, when acces to Downloads and acces to category for view downloads, all downloads appears with an icon/image, with this:

And the url that call to this icon/image is:

http://www.mydomain.com/forum/images/buttons/collapse_tcat_collapsed.gif

But in my forum, not appears this icon/image, and the url that call a "some image" is:

http://www.mydomain.com/forum/images/buttons/avatar.jpg

I don't know because my url for this icon/image is different and I don't know how solved this.

Thanks and a regards.

As I said, the avatar.jpg image is nowhere in the DownloadsII code, unless you edited it yourself. Check the ecdownloads_download_pic phrase which contains the image name.

Originally Posted by hyperspin

Wanted to thank the coder for this excellent mod. We use this on our site for a while and it is very heavily used. I really LOVE the ability to set a time between downloads for different usergroups. My members have asked for a couple of things regarding this mod... So, I have a couple small questions and also a couple of small suggestions for the next version if at all possible.
Question 1:
How would I get ALL downloads to sort by Alpha?

Request 1:
I am not sure if it has been requested or not, but for the next version my members would like to be able to have alphabetical navigation. Perhaps instead of page numbers be able to jump to jump to files that begin with the letter A for instance. A, B, C, D, E, F, etc...

Request 2:
I would also like to see a field that would be on the submission screen that can be added by the uploader tha can point to a "Support" type thread. On my site, we require users to create an announcement/discussion thread before submitting an upload. I would like to be able for people when downloading a file to see (and be able to click) the link to the "support" thread on the forums.

Request 3:
An option to create a new thread in a specific forum when a new download is added would be nice as well. I know that there is an add on for this, but official support would be nice.

Again, Thank you very much for this mod!

Q1. Try setting "Sort by Weight" to no.
v6 has serious improved sorting (category based, each category can have different sorting, ascending/descending on all possible fields).
R1. This is not going to make it - I think -. That's more something for a glossary mod (or the vB memberslist).
R2. The add-on can add automatically such a discuss link to the description field of a file.
R3. The add-on is "official" as its coded by CyberRanger, coauthor of DownloadsII.

Originally Posted by Zia

I have a req. too
downloadsII will be able to browse/listing files for external host-
i have two diff. webhost - i put files on my 2nd host..
it will be nice if this mod can import/list files from 2nd host with permission..

pls give a thought about it

The storage and download part is the last unfinished thing of v6. I was basing it on the attachment system, but with vB 4 coming soon, I stopped working on it. vB 4 will have the new asset manager, so I'm going to look how integration with that goes.

I also hope they are going to fix the lightbox integration

[hyperspin]

Originally Posted by RS_Jelle

Q1. Try setting "Sort by Weight" to no.
v6 has serious improved sorting (category based, each category can have different sorting, ascending/descending on all possible fields).
R1. This is not going to make it - I think -. That's more something for a glossary mod (or the vB memberslist).
R2. The add-on can add automatically such a discuss link to the description field of a file.
R3. The add-on is "official" as its coded by CyberRanger, coauthor of DownloadsII.

Ahh, ok... I was looking for a way to sort each category differently. My main cats are done by weight, but I'd like my subs to be sorted by alpha. Sounds like I am really looking forward to v6 sorting options.

Which add-on are you talking about above that adds this functionality? I swear I've looked at everything with DownloadsII.

[RTMdotORG]

in the first post of this threads, towards the bottom, look where it says add-ons...

[RS_Jelle]

Originally Posted by hyperspin

Ahh, ok... I was looking for a way to sort each category differently. My main cats are done by weight, but I'd like my subs to be sorted by alpha. Sounds like I am really looking forward to v6 sorting options.

Which add-on are you talking about above that adds this functionality? I swear I've looked at everything with DownloadsII.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=130995

[Robbed]

RS Jelle - I think we're talking about different things.

Prune Download log entries
Set to 0 (zero) if you want to maintain all the download log entries (found in the dl_downloads table). Otherwise, enter a positive integer (1,2,5, etc). Log entries OLDER (in DAYS) than the value entered will be deleted. This item is run hourly be the "Hourly Cleanup" scheduled task.

I set this setting to a few days, but it doesn't clear.

[deetwelve]

Originally Posted by RS_Jelle

1. No, not at this moment though. But comments will be improved (quick reply editor, better permissions, ability to edit them).

Great to hear!

Originally Posted by RS_Jelle

2 + 3. There will be definitely a general report button for each file. So you can use it for the comments too. I'm not sure if I'm going to add another button per comment.

I believe that would be a huge asset to the mod. Reporting per comment and have it auto create threads just like the report thread option.

I am glad you are putting a report dead links option in there as it's very good to have. Maybe if you can, have an option to auto create threads just like the above suggestion.

[m!dn!ght]

Thank you , useful hack
i have one Request
Can You Add Resume Support Please ?

[RS_Jelle]

Originally Posted by Robbed

RS Jelle - I think we're talking about different things.


Prune Download log entries
Set to 0 (zero) if you want to maintain all the download log entries (found in the dl_downloads table). Otherwise, enter a positive integer (1,2,5, etc). Log entries OLDER (in DAYS) than the value entered will be deleted. This item is run hourly be the "Hourly Cleanup" scheduled task.

I set this setting to a few days, but it doesn't clear.

Ah, now I see

It seems that the vB devs changed the name of one of the plugin locations. Go to the plugin manager, find the downloads_cron_script_cleanup plugin and click edit. Set the hook location to cron_script_cleanup_hourly (previously it was called cron_script_cleanup).

Will be fixed in the next release

Originally Posted by Kadafi420

Great to hear!


I believe that would be a huge asset to the mod. Reporting per comment and have it auto create threads just like the report thread option.

I am glad you are putting a report dead links option in there as it's very good to have. Maybe if you can, have an option to auto create threads just like the above suggestion.

There will be plugin locations, so there could be an add-on made for this.

Originally Posted by m!dn!ght

Thank you , useful hack
i have one Request
Can You Add Resume Support Please ?

Probably in v6, but I'm not sure.