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 sduckie2k5

Is there a way to require a post count before members can download files?

This needs a plugin, which others have also asked for, so I intend to provide it. All being well, a new release should be available this weekend.

[Slave]

Cool .. just in time for me to come back off Holiday

[AndrewD]

I have uploaded the release candidate of LDM for VB36 into the VB36 thread. This also works fine with VB35. The thread explains what's new/what's been fixed. I'd appreciate some tests and reports - thanks.

When VB36 goes gold and there has been some testing of this new code, it will become the supported release for both VB35 and VB36.

[EasyTarget]

I've been gone for awhile but I'll be sure to get caught up.. thanks for the continued work and support.

[Raul7]

First i would like to thank you for this great mod, i tried searching this thread but couldnt find an answer to this, sorry if it was answered before, is there anyway to have MORE than one URL in the post? for example sometimes, my files are part 1, part 2 . bla bla, and i dont wana make a new post for each, anyway i can have one post with more links?
Thank you.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Raul7

First i would like to thank you for this great mod, i tried searching this thread but couldnt find an answer to this, sorry if it was answered before, is there anyway to have MORE than one URL in the post? for example sometimes, my files are part 1, part 2 . bla bla, and i dont wana make a new post for each, anyway i can have one post with more links?
Thank you.

Unfortunately, this is not currently possible - the question has been asked before but I haven't yet had time to deal with it.

[Raul7]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Unfortunately, this is not currently possible - the question has been asked before but I haven't yet had time to deal with it.

Thank you for your quick reply, i am just wondering, is it going to happen anytime soon? i think its a GREAT feature. Thanks in advance.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Raul7

Thank you for your quick reply, i am just wondering, is it going to happen anytime soon? i think its a GREAT feature. Thanks in advance.

If 'by soon' you mean the next few weeks, I'm afraid not. This needs a redesign to the database structure,

There is a way to achieve nearly what you want: use the description field for the entry and place the second and third, etc, files there using VBulletin url bbcodes. The problem is that this approach does not hide and protect the file location from the prying user.

[hydn]

When surfing to the downloads page users get:

Database error in vBulletin 3.5.4:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM local_linksadmin;

MySQL Error : Can't open file: 'local_linksadmin.ibd' (errno: 1)
Error Number : 1016

What should I do?

Thanks

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by hydn

When surfing to the downloads page users get:

Database error in vBulletin 3.5.4:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM local_linksadmin;

MySQL Error : Can't open file: 'local_linksadmin.ibd' (errno: 1)
Error Number : 1016

What should I do?

Thanks

I've not seen this problem before, but a quick google search suggests that part of your MySQL installation is corrupt. (The *.ibd file is part of the file structure used to hold the table data.)

It seems that to fix this, you will need to delete and recreate the linksadmin table. If you can delete it, the LDM installation script will automatically recreate it - simply uninstall and reinstall the product. (You will not lose the rest of your LDM data). But actually deleting the table can be difficult when this error occurs - see e.g. http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?22,...2933#msg-52933