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.

[rfairbairn]

Can a form be created to allow users to add links, but not going into too much detail as the add link form currently does, i.e. just a description, url and name of site ? no other settings, they would be added on moderation?

[elsupremo]

Andrew - here is the includes file I Pm'd you about. I know it's sloppy and I don't know what I'm doing, but here it is anyways.

For anyone else who's curious, I am adding a lot of .jpg's to my site using the "Scan" function, and I wanted the hack to automatically create a thumbnail whenever I added a .jpg. Andrew was going to do it, but I decided to try it myself. It is expandable to other file types by modifying the preg_match string pattern.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by rfairbairn

Can a form be created to allow users to add links, but not going into too much detail as the add link form currently does, i.e. just a description, url and name of site ? no other settings, they would be added on moderation?

To do this, you would edit the link_addnewlink template. Surround the fields that you want to have as optional with a test

<if condition="$linkmod">..</if>

. You would have to add a hidden input field to provide the initial default value for the missing fields, although this can be blank for everything except the category - which would need to have an acceptable value.

[Meltingfire]

Why did all my dates get set with todays date when upgrading?

Now everything is f*ckedup in "latest links"...

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Meltingfire

Why did all my dates get set with todays date when upgrading?

Now everything is f*ckedup in "latest links"...

Maybe if you gave me more information and less expletive, I could work out the answer.

[dethfire]

any way to import the 3.0 links into this new 3.5 links hack?

[Vizionz]

why is there so many damn files included and its so unorganized i couldnt even figure out what is what to try to install this

[Vizionz]

where does it install the database tables ? i ran the product after uploading all the files and now it says its missing a table in the database

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by dethfire

any way to import the 3.0 links into this new 3.5 links hack?

The installation script should smoothly upgrade you from the 3.0 version to the 3.5 version. Just follow the instructions.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Vizionz

why is there so many damn files included and its so unorganized i couldnt even figure out what is what to try to install this

Actually, the files are extremely organised, and if you read the instructions.txt, it tells you precisely what to do.

There are so many files because during the last year, people have asked for so many options.