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.

[|oR|Greg]

Sounds like a job for Andrew the mighty.

[Taylor123]

i thought i just responded again but guess not...

i turned the local_file_root option from no to yes and i did not get the same error but when I tried uploading an image it still didn't upload and went to a cannot find server page.

When i turn local_file_root to yes will i have to link the upload directory differently.....it is not telling me "/upload" (how i have it linked) is wrong

[MissKalunji]

Originally Posted by |oR|Greg

Best I can do on short notice... see attached image.

<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<div style="margin-top:3px">

<table width="100%">
	<tr>
		<td class="thead" width="50%" align="center" colspan="2"><if condition="$linknew">$linknew </if><span class="smallfont">File Information</span></td>
		<td class="thead" width="50%" align="center"><span class="smallfont">Screenshot / Thumbnail</span></td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td width="50%" colspan="2">
		<table width="100%">
			<tr>
				<td class="alt2" width="50%" align="left"><span class="smallfont">Name:</span></td>
				<td class="alt1" width="50%" align="left"><span class="smallfont"><strong>$linkurljump</strong></span></td>
			</tr>
			<if condition="$linkimg">
				<tr>
				<td class="alt2" width="50%" align="left"><span class="smallfont">File type:</span></td>
				<td class="alt1" width="50%" align="left">$linktypebit</td>
				</tr>
			</if>
			<if condition="$linksize">
				<tr>
				<td class="alt2" width="50%" align="left"><span class="smallfont">File size:</span></td>
				<td class="alt1" width="50%" align="left"><span class="smallfont">$linksize $vbphrase[ll_kb]</span></td>
				</tr>
			</if>
			<if condition="$links_permissions[can_view_names]">
				<tr>
				<td class="alt2" width="50%" align="left"><span class="smallfont">Submitted by:</span></td>
				<td class="alt1" width="50%" align="left"><span class="smallfont"><a href="member.php?u=$linkuserid">$linkusername</a></span></td>
				</tr>
			</if>
			<tr>
				<td class="alt2" width="50%" align="left"><span class="smallfont">Submitted:</span></td>
				<td class="alt1" width="50%" align="left"><span class="smallfont">$linkdate</span></td>
			</tr>
			<if condition="$links_permissions[can_view_hits]"><tr>
				<td class="alt2" width="50%" align="left"><span class="smallfont">Hits / Downloads:</span></td>
				<td class="alt1" width="50%" align="left"><span class="smallfont">$linkhits</span></td>
			</tr></if>
		</table>
		</td>
		<td class="alt2" width="50%"><p align="center">$linkimgjump<br><br><if condition="$linkimg">$linkimgmag</if></td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td class="thead" width="50%"><span class="smallfont">Description:</span></td>
		<td class="thead" align="right" width="50%" colspan="2"><span class="smallfont">$linkfavbit $linkeditbit <if condition="$links_permissions[can_send_tofriend]"><a href="$LINKS_SCRIPT.php?action=sendtofriend&amp;catid=$linkcatid&amp;linkid=$linkid" target="_blank" title="$vbphrase[ll_sendtofriend]">Send To Friend<img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/sendtofriend.gif" alt="$vbphrase[ll_sendtofriend]" border="0" /></a></if> <if condition="$links_permissions[can_report_link] and $linkuserid != $bbuserinfo[userid]"><a href="$LINKS_SCRIPT.php?action=reportlink&amp;linkid=$linkid&amp;catid=$viewcatid&amp;page=$pagenumber" title="$vbphrase[ll_report_bad_link]">Report Bad Link<img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/report.gif" alt="$vbphrase[ll_report_bad_link]" border="0" /></a></if></span></td>
		</tr>
	<tr>
		<td class="tcat" width="100%" colspan="3"><span class="smallfont">$linkurljump&nbsp;&nbsp;$linkdesc</span></td>
		</tr>
</table>

</div>
</td>
</tr>

Perfect man! thanks! now lol how do i add this? sorry im new to this

[MissKalunji]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Here's a new version of the file includes/local_links_include.php which I hope fixes the reported security bug when uploading mp3s.

Grateful for confirmation, after which I will update the main release file.

That did the trick!

thank you!

[MissKalunji]

i figured it |oR|Greg thanks a lot!

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Taylor123

i thought i just responded again but guess not...

i turned the local_file_root option from no to yes and i did not get the same error but when I tried uploading an image it still didn't upload and went to a cannot find server page.

When i turn local_file_root to yes will i have to link the upload directory differently.....it is not telling me "/upload" (how i have it linked) is wrong

I think I will need to see your board. Pls can you send me a PM with details of your board's url, plus a username and password that has full VB admin privs.

[AndrewD]

v2.2.1 re-uploaded, fix to uploads of mp3 and a small correction to the html where it was not fully xhtml compliant

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by q8-star

I'm having an Internal Server Error ,with the following message :

It only happens when I try to save any new changes in the LDM setting ONLY .

I need some more information. Does this always happen with LDM admin setting changes - and which values are you trying to change? Does your site use htaccess files or have mod_redirect working, etc?

Am happy to take a look at your site (although the arabic is a bit difficult for me( - if you PM me a username/password with admin privs.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by |oR|Greg

More features! More features! More features!

Hey big Andy! How about a template that allows mass uploads!

What would you like this to do? Create multiple new entries, one per upload? Or have multiple files with the single entry? etc, etc.

No guarantees, but will add it to the wish list

[shiva]

hey AndrewD,

I just moved to a new host, but because of the differences, i will have to do a new install, as LDM refused to work when I just copied over the database. It's now php 5.1.4 , so if you haven't been able to test with php5, be happy to let you in, as it's not gonna be open for a while.