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 bchawla

I think tis MAY or MAY not be a bug in the beta:
Featured sites are shown no matter what the user permissions are -- I would think that if a user has no permission to view any of the links, then the featured sites shoudln't show either (although , when they try and click on any link, it says permission denied).

OK, I'll take a look

[JBMoney]

For the vbAdvanced module that goes with this... how can i adapt that to show number of comments as well as hits?

[Phlex]

nice hack , is there a improvment of look planned ?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Phlex

nice hack , is there a improvment of look planned ?

What do you want to see?

[caliman]

I'd like to see the stats box on the main page, bumped up to the left of the cats. I am not sure what template that is though or how to do it.

[Akagi]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

No, sorry

thanks for the reply..

btw, thanks for this mod, fantastically done.
I'm wondering if you have plan for it to be integrated (ie. eBux to download) with eBux since it's a fantastic credit system for future releases?

[Slave]

Hi AndrewD

hmm .. I've just installed the beta version onto a clean install of vB (3.5.3) and things seemed to go wrong

When trying to update the admin settings page I get ..

=======================================
Unexpected critical failure
update_admin_settings
=======================================

.. come up ..

Also .. when I add a new cat and then try to add a link to that cat I can't see the newly created cat in the "Parent Categories" box to pick the cat I want .. (in fact I can't see any cats in that box no matter how many cats I create ..

I've kept it on my new forums for the moment in case you want to take a look .. let us know and I'll PM you an admin account ..

[Slave]

Following on from that .. I've had a look at the db and the "local_linkscat" table is missing the fields "styleid" and "catsortorder" ..

Some things missing from local_links_admininclude.php perhaps?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Slave

Hi AndrewD

hmm .. I've just installed the beta version onto a clean install of vB (3.5.3) and things seemed to go wrong

When trying to update the admin settings page I get ..

=======================================
Unexpected critical failure
update_admin_settings
=======================================

.. come up ..

Also .. when I add a new cat and then try to add a link to that cat I can't see the newly created cat in the "Parent Categories" box to pick the cat I want .. (in fact I can't see any cats in that box no matter how many cats I create ..

I've kept it on my new forums for the moment in case you want to take a look .. let us know and I'll PM you an admin account ..

Yes, please PM me with an admin account - not sure what's gone wrong.

Nice to see you back here again

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by caliman

I'd like to see the stats box on the main page, bumped up to the left of the cats. I am not sure what template that is though or how to do it.

Its the links_main template. This constructs a series of tables, and the last one is the table holding the stats.

If you wanted to rearrange things, you would have to play around with that template and the relative placing and size of the tables.