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]

I saw your site, but not the new style... no love?

[MissKalunji]

Originally Posted by |oR|Greg

I saw your site, but not the new style... no love?

yeah i applied it to the screen saver / wall paper

look

http://www.dancehallareaz.com/forum/...ks.php?catid=6

http://www.dancehallareaz.com/forum/...ks.php?catid=5

[MissKalunji]

How can i prevent access to certain usergroup example if they click on the link they see an error page?

Thanks

[|oR|Greg]

can_access_link setting under permissions

I set mine to go to the register page.

Set that with protected_link under settings.

[MissKalunji]

But i dont want them to be able to see it at all! you understand what i mean?

[|oR|Greg]

Well, you have to set the categories to a forum that they cannot see then. For example a regular user cannot see the LIMMAC Downloads section on my site, but LIMMAC Members can, because the category is set for a protected forum that the LIMMAC Members only can access, hence the category is not visible in LDM.

[|oR|Greg]

You could also wrap your template(s) with an IF statement, and filter usergroups that way. Doing so will result in a member seeing like.. a category has 10 things, but when they look in it, they only see 5 things cause the other 5 are hidden from the usergroup. This way gets more granular results because they might be able to see the category, but not the item.

[|oR|Greg]

Wrap your template with this from before the <table> and right after the </table>:

Replace what usergroups you want to allow with the numbers.

<if condition="is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 5,6,7,9,10)">

</if>

Example:

<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<div style="margin-top:3px">
<if condition="is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 5,6,7,9,10)">
<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
...template code...
</table>
</if>
</div>
</td>
</tr>

[MissKalunji]

Nice thanks lemme try

and how would i wrap up an error message like

<if condition="is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 5,6,7,9,10)">

else

error message
</if>

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by MissKalunji

Nice thanks lemme try

and how would i wrap up an error message like


<if condition="is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 5,6,7,9,10)">

else

error message
</if>

It's not clear to me what you are trying to achieve.

Do you want the existence of the private entries to be visible to the restricted usergroups or not?

If not, when would this error message be triggered?

You can easily make a category visible to everyone but only have certain of its entries visible

You can also easily make the category and all its entries visible but trigger an error message when a user tries to access those which are resticted.

or

You can make the category itself invisible to general users.