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 Slave

hmm, possible bug in 2.1.0 AndrewD ..

At the moment I've got my settings so that a registered user can add a link but that it should should be moderated (ie that usergroup is unticked in the "can_moderate_links" option while ticked in the "can_add_link" option) ..

I've just added a link, unwittingly using one of my test accounts who is just a registered user, and it went into the listings straight away without needing moderation ..

Is this a known bug or have I missed a setting/option?

Just check - Which user could see the entry straight away? afaik, entries that need moderation are always visible to the submitting user and to moderators. It's other users that can't see it.

[Slave]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Just check - which user could see the entry straight away. afaik, entries that need moderation are always visible to the submitting user and to moderators. It's other users that can't see it.

hmm ..

For the registered user that summited the link it went directly into the listings ..

For the admin it was in the listings with no links needing moderation .. which is why I brought it up ..

It's even in the listing for unregistered users, though I've got it set that they only see the text of the link, not the link itself ..

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Slave

hmm ..

For the registered user that summited the link it went directly into the listings ..

For the admin it was in the listings with no links needing moderation .. which is why I brought it up ..

It's even in the listing for unregistered users, though I've got it set that they only see the text of the link, not the link itself ..

Alright, I'll double check for 2.1.3.

[Smiry Kin's]

[high]* Smiry Kin's saved for future use. [/high]

[Langly]

I'm not sure why but all my files show up as user Test123, which is a test account but not used to upload, submitted them. They also show up as being submitted in 01-01-1970.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Langly

I'm not sure why but all my files show up as user Test123, which is a test account but not used to upload, submitted them. They also show up as being submitted in 01-01-1970.

Another problem is that when I try to upload a 6meg file it tells me the file or url is specified. I did give it file to upload straight from my harddrive. Any ideas?

Is this with the database that you transferred from one system to another?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Langly

Another problem is that when I try to upload a 6meg file it tells me the file or url is specified. I did give it file to upload straight from my harddrive. Any ideas?

Check the values of your site's php settings for upload_max_filesize and post_max_sizecode. In the back of my head, I seem to remember that one can get the wrong error message if these are too small, or if post_max_filesize is set smaller than upload_max_filesize.

[Slave]

Quick question/suggestion ..

I've got one LDM installed on one site with lots of links in different cats .. and I've got another LDM installed on a different site with a few links and cats ..

I'd like to move some of the links from one site to the other .. but when I export I don't have any options for selecting which links I want .. therefore I have to have them all ..

When I then go to import, again I have no option which links I want, and it would appear that if I already have some links/cats in the database it doesn't really know what to do with the imported links .. ie it tries to import into the cats already there, not create new cats with the correct names ..

When you get a chance, could you have a look at the export/import options and try and beef them up a bit. Selective export/import would be good

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Slave

When you get a chance, could you have a look at the export/import options and try and beef them up a bit. Selective export/import would be good

Yes, I've been aware of that for some time. The csv export/import is too restrictive. I've begun work on an xml mechanism, which currently works fine for complete databases and needs extending to allow selective imports, including into already-existing databases.

[Langly]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Is this with the database that you transferred from one system to another?

Yes it is. good memory