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Links and Downloads Manager · **Released**: 06-25-2005

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.

Joep11 · #**1282** 03-01-2006, 08:50 PM

Hi Andrew!

This is a great hack! :smoke:

Is it possible to have featured sites per catagory? So that favourites are shown as featured only in the catagory/catagories that favourite is in....

That would be great because it does not make sense to have a featured dog in a cat catagory :lick:

Langly · #**1283** 03-02-2006, 03:15 AM

I logged in a test account that was a registered user and tried to upload a file. I have uploads enabled and permissions set to allow registered users to upload. The upload tried to complete but at the end it said "I did not have a catagory set for the upload" so it didn't accept it. The funny thing is that I tried uploading from the directory I was uploading to. When setting the info for the upload there was no option for a catagory. Is this normal? When logged in as Admin I have catagories to choose from but registered users don't.

Any clues?

AndrewD · #**1284** 03-02-2006, 03:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Karri

Got another one for you. We were having troubles with the titles of the link forums that show up on the forumhome page. After going over it with my techie mod to see if it was another hack causing the trouble he says

Thanks!!!

OK, will investigate. Thanks.

AndrewD · #**1285** 03-02-2006, 03:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Joep11

Hi Andrew!

This is a great hack! :smoke:

Is it possible to have featured sites per catagory? So that favourites are shown as featured only in the catagory/catagories that favourite is in....

That would be great because it does not make sense to have a featured dog in a cat catagory :lick:

I'll add that as an option. Thanks.

AndrewD · #**1286** 03-02-2006, 03:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Langly

I logged in a test account that was a registered user and tried to upload a file. I have uploads enabled and permissions set to allow registered users to upload. The upload tried to complete but at the end it said "I did not have a catagory set for the upload" so it didn't accept it. The funny thing is that I tried uploading from the directory I was uploading to. When setting the info for the upload there was no option for a catagory. Is this normal? When logged in as Admin I have catagories to choose from but registered users don't.

Any clues?

Are you using forum-based permissions? If so, there's an annoying little bug that Ophelia discovered. See a few posts back for a modified version of local_links_include.php that fixes this bug. I have not yet had the chance to upload this as part of the full package.

Langly · #**1287** 03-02-2006, 03:31 AM

I know you have a lot on your plate; what are the chances of having a way for having files added to the downloads also having their descriptions and/or a link to them added to a specified forum. Like have LDM use a default "user" to post a new thread in a specified forum. The forum admin can preset certain ways it can be displayed and posted.

Langly · #**1288** 03-02-2006, 03:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Are you using forum-based permissions? If so, there's an annoying little bug that Ophelia discovered. See a few posts back for a modified version of local_links_include.php that fixes this bug. I have not yet had the chance to upload this as part of the full package.

DOH! Sorry about that, I must have missed it earlier.

AndrewD · #**1289** 03-02-2006, 03:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Langly

I know you have a lot on your plate; what are the chances of having a way for having files added to the downloads also having their descriptions and/or a link to them added to a specified forum. Like have LDM use a default "user" to post a new thread in a specified forum. The forum admin can preset certain ways it can be displayed and posted.

I can see the use of this - I'm beginning to think that the best way to handle suggestions like yours is to place a full set of 'hooks' to LDM (like in VB), so that people can easily create these sorts of patches without having to modify the central logical of LDM.

However, interplay between LDM and forums is potentially risky as I don't want to trigger the destruction of someone's bulletin board! Connecting LDM with the posts table might have side effects that I don't realise.

sinoeu · #**1290** 03-02-2006, 06:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AndrewD

I can see the use of this - I'm beginning to think that the best way to handle suggestions like yours is to place a full set of 'hooks' to LDM (like in VB), so that people can easily create these sorts of patches without having to modify the central logical of LDM.

Wonderful!!! That's what we are always waitting for! Please don't forget to add a hook for the point systems

testpig · #**1291** 03-03-2006, 05:29 AM

Hi Andrew.
Is it still possible to do a mass import into LDM from the server? I cant find the option.

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