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 Boofo

Now I'm getting this error:

That is not something I get - which version of VB are you using?

I'm out of time with my internet connection - should be back on line tomorrow evening.

[Boofo]

3.5 Rc 3.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Boofo

3.5 Rc 3.

Will have to investigate - I don't understand at the moment.

[Boofo]

Ok, I got it working. I cleared my cache and that seemed to fix it for some reason. It must have been using the old file.

I noticed the What's Hot table at the top seems to be a little off. But other than that, it look ok so far.

[elsupremo]

<very thankful>Andrew - I'm loving the comments system. Thank you. Loving the whole new release, actually.

</very thankful>

[elsupremo]

One bug popped up - I used the scan function to bring in about 24 files. However, now when I navigate to that category, when I get into the category, the dropdown menus do not work. This was only the case for that one category. Then I changed attributes of all of the links in that category, essentially moving them to a different category. Now, THAT new category had the problem (no dropdowns available), and the old link that used to have the problem now had fully functional drop-downs. Whatever directory has the links that I scanned in (mpg's, avi's and wmv's) now has no drop-down functionality. The standard link buttons still work fine (Moderate, Addlink, etc.)

I also replicated the problem in both Mozilla Firefox and IE, including clearing my cache and trying again. It did not fix it.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by elsupremo

One bug popped up - I used the scan function to bring in about 24 files. However, now when I navigate to that category, when I get into the category, the dropdown menus do not work. This was only the case for that one category. Then I changed attributes of all of the links in that category, essentially moving them to a different category. Now, THAT new category had the problem (no dropdowns available), and the old link that used to have the problem now had fully functional drop-downs. Whatever directory has the links that I scanned in (mpg's, avi's and wmv's) now has no drop-down functionality. The standard link buttons still work fine (Moderate, Addlink, etc.)

I also replicated the problem in both Mozilla Firefox and IE, including clearing my cache and trying again. It did not fix it.

Can I hazard a guess? The category in which you have imported the entries now has more than one page of entries - so there is a page navigator section?? And you have customised some of the standard VBulletin templates (I think the header or navbar template?) This combination kills the drop downs, because of some incompatibilities between the javascripts. You have to revert the standard VB templates then reimplement your changes into the VB3.5 templates.

Let me know if I'm wrong - I had this problem myself a month or so back, but it doesn't happen now that I've fixed the standard templates.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Ok, I got it working. I cleared my cache and that seemed to fix it for some reason. It must have been using the old file.

I noticed the What's Hot table at the top seems to be a little off. But other than that, it look ok so far.

I wonder if you have other hacks installed that use the adminfunctions_template code. In any case, I'm modifying the code to trap the 'multiple loading' bug.

Not sure what you mean by the table seeming a little off? Wrong counts or what?

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

I wonder if you have other hacks installed that use the adminfunctions_template code. In any case, I'm modifying the code to trap the 'multiple loading' bug.

It seemed to work fine after I emptied my IE cache. It gave me the error one time right after emptying it and then started working ok.

Not sure what you mean by the table seeming a little off? Wrong counts or what?

No, the header table that has What's Hot in it. It looks like it has a blank <tr> in it at the bottom. I haven't looked it it yet, but it looks like the is an extra line at the bottom of it. Just a cosmetic thing.

[elsupremo]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Can I hazard a guess? The category in which you have imported the entries now has more than one page of entries - so there is a page navigator section?? And you have customised some of the standard VBulletin templates (I think the header or navbar template?) This combination kills the drop downs, because of some incompatibilities between the javascripts. You have to revert the standard VB templates then reimplement your changes into the VB3.5 templates.

Let me know if I'm wrong - I had this problem myself a month or so back, but it doesn't happen now that I've fixed the standard templates.

Exactly correct. Bravo, bravo. Thank you.