Links and Downloads Manager

LDM extends VBulletin to manage a library of documents, files and links to other web sites. Documents can be stored on your own web site, stored on your server separate from the web site, uploaded by your user community, or held somewhere else altogether. So you can use LDM to provide your user community with access to your own files and allow them to share files with each other.

12/08/06 - Versions that work with vb36 are available and supported in the VB36 thread. Version 2.2.1, which works with VB 3.5 but not with VB 3.6, remains available here.

Thanks to everyone who has helped with all the design, testing, etc.
Translations are provided (thanks dLutt and LeeWicked) into German, (thanks to Allan) into French, and (thanks to Hugo) into Spanish. Harry1951 has handled the Dutch translation.

Screenshots, Instructions and How to Install

Full details and instructions are available as a Wiki at http://www.eirma.org/wikis/index.php...nloads_Manager

LDM installs as a VBulletin product. There are no modifications required to standard VB code.

Basically - upload php files and run the installer through VB's Product installer. No changes needed to VB code. Remember to BACKUP YOUR DATABASE. By default, LDM prefixes its database tables 'local_'. Edit the configuration file, local_links_init.php, if you need/wish to change this.

LDM can handle an essentially unlimited number of categories and nested subcategories, and an unlimited number of entries (hyperlinks or downloadable files). Each entry can be placed in one or several categories. Categories can have styles. Descriptions and titles can optionally include BBcodes, smilies, images and html, giving the possibility to add images, colouring, etc. File types can be flagged using icons and individual entries can also have associated thumbnail images.

Standards templates are provided for libraries of links, files, documents, and photographs.

Users can offer comments and rate the links/downloads. Each user is allowed one rating and many comments per entry, and can freely edit these if they change their mind.

Permission to use specific features is established via the product's admin page, where the administrator specifies which usergroups can add and edit entries, comment and rate these entries, moderate, etc.

By default, all entries are visible to all users. You can restrict visibility/access to links and categories by using the permissions masks from your board's forums.

Moderation of new entries is available but turned off by default.

Users can report bad links to the relevant moderators/administrators.

Each user can flag links as his/her "Favourites".

Modules are provided for VBAdvanced.

Hooks are provided in suitable places in LDM and sample plugins are included in the release (see extras directory), for example to integrate with ID3 tags in mp3 files, for slideshows, to autocreate new threads in your forums, etc.

Plus much more.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by johnim

In usegroups I created new usergroup "users download".

Then I created user "Test" and I set his his primary group "registered users" a secondary group "users download". In LDM settings is for this "users download" group set, they can add and edit links, but it isn't works. When I set group "users download" like his primary group and "registered users" like secondary, feature add & edit links works fine. Where is the problem? Must be a group, which is set in LDM always set like primary in VB settings dor this user "Test"?

My version LDM is 2.1.6

thx

I've checked - there is a bug in the code - it's not correctly checking the secondary usergroups. Thanks for reporting this - I'll fix it in the next release

[Tyegurl]

okay andrewd i have a problem....just got notified....not sure if it has anything to do with what you fixed earlier but figured i would ask...

mySQL query error: SELECT * FROM games_settings

mySQL error: Table 'Tyegurl2.games_settings' doesn't exist
mySQL error code:
Date: Thursday 06th of April 2006 04:19:53 PM


my games are gone

nm just checked my plugins on a whim and somehow it got deleted....i have it back or should at least...darn yep but all my scores are gone.....oh well nm ty anyways

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Tyegurl

okay andrewd i have a problem....just got notified....not sure if it has anything to do with what you fixed earlier but figured i would ask...

mySQL query error: SELECT * FROM games_settings

mySQL error: Table 'Tyegurl2.games_settings' doesn't exist
mySQL error code:
Date: Thursday 06th of April 2006 04:19:53 PM


my games are gone

nm just checked my plugins on a whim and somehow it got deleted....i have it back or should at least...darn yep but all my scores are gone.....oh well nm ty anyways

I hope that this was nothing to do with me .. what I did was install a new plugin into LDM which is independent of other hacks .. sorry if I have contributed to a new problem

[johnim]

Is possible to make no upload limit in LDM for admin, or some usergroup?
Now is limit defined from VBulletin.

[dilbert]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

For Tyegurl and Grendelkhan - I've patched your boards to fix the problem with broken avatars.

For anyone else who has this problem (broken images in the linkbit when you enable avatars in LDM), please install the attached plugin as a temporary fix.

Hi Andrew,

I applied this patch and I still am missing the custom avatar.
Here is a test post to look at.
http://www.bloodbanktalk.com/forum/l...ks.php?catid=9

Thanks, Cliff

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by dilbert

Hi Andrew,

I applied this patch and I still am missing the custom avatar.
Here is a test post to look at.
http://www.bloodbanktalk.com/forum/l...ks.php?catid=9

Thanks, Cliff

Thanks, Cliff. I'd overlooked another way of handling avatars. Will be fixed.

Unfortunately, I can't safely solve this with the plugin, so bear with me a while.

[Tyegurl]

change it in your php.ini file i did...

lol forgot to say what i was talking about,...

Upload size!! lol change it in the server root php.ini file..

i had to make my own and put it in the root. but it works.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by TheSonic

Andrew, PM sent.

Thanks

Take a look at the can_link_files permissions on the LDM admin page - and if these seem ok, take a look at them by doing an 'edit category' and viewing the third tab.

If the code is working properly, the only way you can get the behaviour you are seeing with 'add link' is when this permissions is turned off for the relevant user groups.

[|oR|Greg]

Andrew... my "issue" with file names is back. Even though I'm running 2.1.6 After I upload a file, it works for a while if you right-click save as, but then after a little bit of time passes, you right click save as, and it reverts to the "protected name" with all numbers. What's even more confusing, is that it only happens with some files, not all of them. In order to see it, you'll have to sign up on the site, and I'll give you access to the members downloads, then you'll see some of them save as the wrong names, some don't.

www.limmac.org

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by |oR|Greg

Andrew... my "issue" with file names is back. Even though I'm running 2.1.6 After I upload a file, it works for a while if you right-click save as, but then after a little bit of time passes, you right click save as, and it reverts to the "protected name" with all numbers. What's even more confusing, is that it only happens with some files, not all of them. In order to see it, you'll have to sign up on the site, and I'll give you access to the members downloads, then you'll see some of them save as the wrong names, some don't.

www.limmac.org

OK, will do.