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 civil78

Here is the idea.

I have a site with subtitles, and sometimes I replace a subtitle with some corrections or changes. I use LDM and I see in the stats keeps the log of the downloads and users.

My problem is that if I make a change in the file the users they don?t know for that and I don?t have a way to inform them.

So my idea is if it?s possible to add in a future version of LDM the possibility to send a personal message for the change to all users that they download the specific file. I think that is useful and if it?s possible to add in the file description a field that it says the file version.

Thanks for listen me, I hope AndrewD that you find that is a great idea and to add it in future versions.

Let me make sure I understand you correctly.

When an entry in the LDM database is edited, you would like an option so that the person making the edit can send a message to all users who are recorded as having accessed/downloaded that entry.

[civil78]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Let me make sure I understand you correctly.

When an entry in the LDM database is edited, you would like an option so that the person making the edit can send a message to all users who are recorded as having accessed/downloaded that entry.

Yes, you understand it very well. An option that it sends a message to all users that have downloaded the specific file. It’s not necessary to make that automatically... you should just add a button or an option that sends a message like this “The file that you downloaded have some changes, please if you want the last version of this file download it again”.

In my site only the administrators have the possibility to upload files, not the users. So this is very useful for us.

[Langly]

Everything is working great on the stable version for me. I only have one problem and that is the announcer script that announces newest uploads in a certain forum. Mine works but it doesn't work on uploads that have to be moderated. Once the file is approved, there is still no mention of the file in the forum as being uploaded. Is there a way to fix this?

Cheers

[amnesia623]

I can't get any way for users to be able to upload any files, pictures, or anything. I have reviewed all the setting in LDM for this and still can't get anything. I don't see anything about uploading or upload files.

Am I missing something?

[amnesia623]

Originally Posted by amnesia623

I can't get any way for users to be able to upload any files, pictures, or anything. I have reviewed all the setting in LDM for this and still can't get anything. I don't see anything about uploading or upload files.

Am I missing something?

Good lord man - Nevermind! I found the problem. "Enable uploads for all usergroups.."

:cross-eyed:

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Langly

Everything is working great on the stable version for me. I only have one problem and that is the announcer script that announces newest uploads in a certain forum. Mine works but it doesn't work on uploads that have to be moderated. Once the file is approved, there is still no mention of the file in the forum as being uploaded. Is there a way to fix this?

Cheers

In the stable release (2.2.1), there is no hook at the right place in LDM to tie this script to. I have changed that in the beta software, but have not yet modified the announcer script/tested it to work with moderation. I will do so.

I'm getting pretty close to releasing this as the next stable release. Thanks.

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

is there a to change the little [+] for the lightbox to something else (more noticable) like a little magnifying glass image or something?

[amnesia623]

Works good in RC 2 -- thanks!

[tamborinegal]

Hi Andrew,

I'm using the latest beta version and all is working perfectly. I'm just wondering about the max_textlength - does this not apply to link descriptions now that it's using the $messagearea instead of textarea?

I'd really love to limit the link description part. Is there still a way of doing this?

Thanks for all your work.

Clancy

[ReadOrDie]

Nice hack. I can definetly tell you have put alot of effort into it. However I think the manual should break down the steps a little more. It was good up until the part where you have to set all this stuff then it gets extremely confusing for those who have no experience.