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.

[EasyTarget]

ok, my apologies.. I'm hiding under a rock now.

I had the 2 zips and I kept using the wrong one. 2.1.1b2 instead of 2.1.2b1

seems to be back up and working great. thanks again for putting up with people like me.

[EasyTarget]

regarding permissions, is there a way I can make it so one group can upload to one category and not another?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by EasyTarget

regarding permissions, is there a way I can make it so one group can upload to one category and not another?

That's coming in the next beta - permissions to add links and to upload will be available per category in the same way as the style settings (on a third tab on the category edit).

[EasyTarget]

oh ok.. I thought I was going to have to hide under a rock again, cuz I was reading in the online manual about it

can_add_link user group can add new entries to the LDM database. This can be set of a per-category basis.

but then I couldn't figure out how to do it ahha.

anyways.. enough of my noobishness, have a good day.

[EasyTarget]

ok, I lied, I'm back lol

I'm getting this error on some thumbnails. (remember I'm the one guy using cURL)

Warning: curl_error(): supplied argument is not a valid cURL handle resource in /includes/local_links_resize.php on line 82

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/.......forum/includes/class_core.php:2983) in /local_resize.php on line 61;CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v62), quality = 90

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by EasyTarget

ok, I lied, I'm back lol

I'm getting this error on some thumbnails. (remember I'm the one guy using cURL)

Yes, that one was down to me.

Edit includes/local_links_resize.php and change line 82 from [code]$error = curl_error($ch)[/conn] to [conn]$error = curl_error($conn)[/conn] Sorry

[dapinard]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

My fault, forgetting to initialise an array, although why this hits you and not others, I don't understand.

Can you try editing local_links.php, go to line 120

$master_title = iif...

and add a line

$query = array();

I hope that will fix it. Let me know.

Yes, that fixed it. Thanks for the quick reply!

I also changed local_links_search.php as it was having the same error.

-Dave

[sydude]

A quick possible bug in the beta:

There are a few layout problems with Internet Explorer for Mac. In the the full Links Bit template setting, the 'collapse' arrows in the category header goes off the header and inches to the right, making the screen double wide and introduces a horizontal scrollbar. Also, in the category bit the 'Category' header is aligned to the left, and the collapse arrows align to the center. These problems don't occur with Safari or Firefox.

Andrew, I can't stress enough how awesome you are and how great this product is. Thanks!!

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by sydude

A quick possible bug in the beta:

There are a few layout problems with Internet Explorer for Mac. In the the full Links Bit template setting, the 'collapse' arrows in the category header goes off the header and inches to the right, making the screen double wide and introduces a horizontal scrollbar. Also, in the category bit the 'Category' header is aligned to the left, and the collapse arrows align to the center. These problems don't occur with Safari or Firefox.

Andrew, I can't stress enough how awesome you are and how great this product is. Thanks!!

I'm afraid that I don't have any way to debug this - no Mac in the house. As far as I know, IE for the Mac is no longer a supported product, and I've no idea what functionality works and not. Is this a big deal?

[sydude]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

I'm afraid that I don't have any way to debug this - no Mac in the house. As far as I know, IE for the Mac is no longer a supported product, and I've no idea what functionality works and not. Is this a big deal?

No, definitely not. Especially considering that IE is going to be disappearing! Thanks again. You are the BEST.