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 obmob

AWW, can't make this to work... ok, here is what i've done so far.

Uploaded files as indicated -was planning to rename, but i'll do that later-

Now i scanned a folder and was able to add a couple of files, just to test.

It says file is ok... but when i try to download link appears this way and a 404 error is displayed.

http://www. site. com/local_links/jump/2/1 <-- that location doesn't exist, files are stored in a different folder, i thought i enabled some sort of protection in LDM settings to avoid hotlinkin in my files.

No broken links shown in admin... so i tried a different way and uploaded directly a different file... no luck, the same result.

Also, if i go to LDM home page i see new category, if i try to browse i see this when clicking category, also 404 error:

http://www. site .com/local_links/links/1

Have i done something wrong? Did i missed something? Files are placed correctly

Hope spmeone can help me, thanks.

From the URLs that you are showing, you seem to have switched on the seo_friendly option on the LDM admin settings page. Have you also configured apache to work with SEO links? If not, you will get exactly the errors you are mentioning

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Ian Emu-UK

Thanks Andrew, but it doesn't seem to be working, here is my settings from the file

PHP Code:

$expireusergroups = array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15);  // use this array to specify which usergroups' entries trigger an autodeletion
$expirecategories = array(18);  // use this array to specify which categories can be pruned, default all categories
$expiredays = 3; // number of days after which an entry is removed from the database 


I want it to delete everything uploaded by all usergroups in cat 18, but after 5 days the file has still not been deleted.

I have setup the sheduled task and uploaded the file into the cron directory (I can see those questions popping into your head )

Ian, I feel rather scared advising you with this, in case I tell you something wrong which kills the whole LDM database. So pls take a backup of all the LDM tables!!!

Have you tried going to the VB admincp and *forcing* the cron job to run?

If so and it still doesn't work, I'd like you to send me an email with these two items:
- a database backup of the LDM tables, and
- the modified version of the cron task php file

I'll send you a message with me email address

[Holidazed]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Have you 'associated' the category with the protected forum (LDM/edit category/parent forum)?

Yes I did, but it still lets them in.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by bitg

Yes I did, but it still lets them in.

Then I don't understand - would you send me a pm with detals of your board + an admin account?

[pumarjr]

it's funny, my post has been completely ignored

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by pumarjr

it's funny, my post has been completely ignored

I didn't ignore it - see reply at 08:40 yesterday - I said that I cannot understand how it is possible for VB and LDM to display these different values when the code is using identiocal code to read the same settings from the php.ini files. Maybe I'm overlooking something obvious. See for example these attachments which show the same value from my test board.

How big an upload will your implementation of LDM allow? What limits are set in your main VB admin/attachments table?

Latest versions of LDM places the following limits on uploads:

a) for admins, all allowed filetypes, maxsize = smaller of upload_max_filesize and post_max_size
b) for all other users, maxsize is read from the VB admin attachments table for the corresponding filetype, with an upper limit of smaller of upload_max_filesize and post_max_size

[pumarjr]

i appologize

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

Originally Posted by GrendelKhan{TSU

quick question or suggestion before I forget:


is there a way to make a PERMALINK? or have it show a copiable link so people can use this like Online Image Storage or FILE HOST source?

all the elements are there...just need a copiable link to the download.
(eg: this would be VERY useful for people who want to upload say... a signature image and link it into their signature).

again, doing so would in effect covers thses hacks and more..
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=113583
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=106127

no thoughts on this?

I thought more ppl would be interested in having show a convenient link so one could use this as online file/image storage.

[obmob]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

From the URLs that you are showing, you seem to have switched on the seo_friendly option on the LDM admin settings page. Have you also configured apache to work with SEO links? If not, you will get exactly the errors you are mentioning

:bunny: you are right, i forgot i set that and didnt check apache...

i'm such a fool

thanks Andrew, i'll test once again

[Benj]

has anyone tried to play mp3s using a flash player with this hack ??