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.

[Benj]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

This is the most-asked-for upgrade. I need to think through the details. No promises, just a strong maybe.

nice one andrew

[EasyTarget]

/me puts a vote in for uploading capabilities.

did you ever look into that fopen stuff more?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by EasyTarget

[high]* EasyTarget puts a vote in for uploading capabilities.
[/high]

did you ever look into that fopen stuff more?

You're asking about cURL support? - that's fully integrated now.

[Benj]

so andrew how do you get this built in media jukebox thing to work then? enabled it for mp3s added a link to an mp3 doesnt work :S any ideas :P playing atm lovin this so far man......

cheers

benj

[WNxWakko]

Uploaded files, installed plugin,

When I click any option for this mod in admincp or try to access the file.

Critical Error: Links and Downloads Manager not installed properly - cannot find database tables

[elsupremo]

Originally Posted by WNxWakko

Uploaded files, installed plugin,

When I click any option for this mod in admincp or try to access the file.

Critical Error: Links and Downloads Manager not installed properly - cannot find database tables

Just to make sure:
When you say "installed plugin", did you (inside AdminCP):
Click "Plugin System"
-Click "Manage Products"
--Click [Add/Import Product] (below table)
---Browse your harddrive for file: product-eirma_ldm.xml, Allow Overwrite: YES ---->IMPORT

If you are not entirely sure, I would go ahead and do it again.

[dethfire]

Moderating the links doesn't work for me. I click accept and it's still in the mod queue.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by WNxWakko

Uploaded files, installed plugin,

When I click any option for this mod in admincp or try to access the file.

Critical Error: Links and Downloads Manager not installed properly - cannot find database tables

The tables are created by the product installer, so I wonder if you installed the plugin rather than the product. Do check that you used admin/plugins/manage products and not admin/plugins/install plugin.

If the installer failed, it would have displayed some error messages during the process, but these can race by on the vb admin screen. If necessary, use the vb admin to uninstall and reinstall, don't just overwrite the product xml.

By all means pm me with details of your board - if you require help, I'll need an admin username and password

[elsupremo]

Originally Posted by dethfire

Moderating the links doesn't work for me. I click accept and it's still in the mod queue.

Unfortunately, it's true - accepting a moderated link does not remove it from the moderation queue.

However - I just checked something, I could be wrong - but if you have anything other than "0" in the Review frequency field of the link properties, then it will stay in the moderation queue. So, if you want the entries gone, put "0" in that field and it will be gone.

David

[EasyTarget]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

You're asking about cURL support? - that's fully integrated now.

wow, thanks. apart from the fopen function being disabled so I couldn't use this hack before, curl is much more secure.. thanks for the work, I'm looking forward to the updates.