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 AndrewD

OK, will do.

Have registered, tell me where to look

[|oR|Greg]

Ok, you have access.

On April 4th, I put this up, and it works fine if you right-click save as:
http://www.limmac.org/vb/local_links...id=3&linkid=76

On that same day I put this up, and it doesn't work right if you right-click save as:
http://www.limmac.org/vb/local_links...id=3&linkid=80

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by |oR|Greg

Ok, you have access.

On April 4th, I put this up, and it works fine if you right-click save as:
http://www.limmac.org/vb/local_links...id=3&linkid=76

On that same day I put this up, and it doesn't work right if you right-click save as:
http://www.limmac.org/vb/local_links...id=3&linkid=80

OK, I see. I'll need to think about this.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by johnim

Is possible to make no upload limit in LDM for admin, or some usergroup?
Now is limit defined from VBulletin.

There are two types of limit for uploads:

a) Some come from VB, from the attachments table, per filetype
b) Some come from PHP

I can adjust LDM so that admins can override the VB settings but not the php settings.

Let me know if this is what you mean.

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

For Tyegurl and Grendelkhan - I've patched your boards to fix the problem with broken avatars.

For anyone else who has this problem (broken images in the linkbit when you enable avatars in LDM), please install the attached plugin as a temporary fix.

thanks Andrew.

I sent you a PM about this...but it seems now that the avatar issue only works for custom avatars, but if someone has a "standard" one its still broken. :/ dunno if that's just me.

[Tyegurl]

andrewd ... not sure what this is... well i know what it is i just don't understand why.... i moved a folder to another category and ever since i get this error...

Database error in vBulletin 3.5.4:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT * FROM local_linksdownloads
WHERE linkid='510' AND userid='32' AND usertime>'1144511097'
LIMIT 1;

MySQL Error : Lost connection to MySQL server during query
Error Number : 2013
Date : Saturday, April 8th 2006 @ 08:45:45 AM
Script : http://www.teamrespawn.com/vBulletin...d=510&catid=16
Referrer : http://www.teamrespawn.com/vBulletin...N&page=4&pp=10


now the downloaders are telling me they download without a problem....which is what i don't understand. can you possibly shed some light on it?

[tnguy3n]

from what I see, nothing is wrong with the query. The message you see is probably because your mysql server was down at the time you sent the request.

[Tyegurl]

ty tnguy3n

secondly now....

is there anyway to integrate this gif when uploading or downloading instead of just seeing the page?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Tyegurl

ty tnguy3n

secondly now....

is there anyway to integrate this gif when uploading or downloading instead of just seeing the page?

Having a progress bar with uploads is a real pain to get to work correctly.

With downloads, there are also some funny tricks that one has to watch out for, so if it's ok, I'll simply put this on the list...

Thanks anyway

[Tyegurl]

yep np i was just curious....i hate looking at the page and wondering.....my ie progress bar only moves so far b4 it stops and i start crossing my fingers....