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 mathias

is there also a way for me to set permissions on who can delete links like make mods?

LDM/admin/permissions/can delete link allows you to set this permission by usergroup

[SherryG]

Hiya guys,

I'm getting the following message when trying to add an image:

Warning: fopen(/home/stamkcom/public_html/images/thumbs/35491169421067.jpg) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /includes/local_links_resize.php on line 166


Can anyone help me out? I would sincerely appreciate it

[Martyh]

installed ,, thank you,,, works fine.

If you have time could you tell me how I would make it upload an excel or a visio file

Thanks, I see an area where I can enter this but it sounds like I might be overriding all the other ones that it uploads,,, sorry to be a pain, I am a novice here

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Martyh

installed ,, thank you,,, works fine.

If you have time could you tell me how I would make it upload an excel or a visio file

Thanks, I see an area where I can enter this but it sounds like I might be overriding all the other ones that it uploads,,, sorry to be a pain, I am a novice here

There are several steps:

a) You need to tell VBulletin how to recognise excel and visio files. You do this by going to VB/admincp/attachments and adding the file type and 'mimetype information':

File type - xls
Mimetype - Content-type: application/vnd.ms-excel

File type - vsd (?? - I don't use visio)
Mimetype - application/vnd.visio

b) Then you enable uploads in LDM. 1) You need to tell LDM where it can store the uploads, e.g. create a directory called "ldm-uploads" on your site, give the web server write access to the directory (in unix, this requires permissions 777), and then on the LDM admin page, enter /ldm-uploads as the upload directory and enable uploads.

c) then everything should work

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by SherryG

Hiya guys,

I'm getting the following message when trying to add an image:

Warning: fopen(/home/stamkcom/public_html/images/thumbs/35491169421067.jpg) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /includes/local_links_resize.php on line 166


Can anyone help me out? I would sincerely appreciate it

Two things to check:

a) Maybe you need to give your web server write access to the /images/thumbs directory (mode 777)

b) Maybe your web server is running php with a restriction on the 'open_basedir' setting. You can check this by going to any of the LDM admin pages and taking a look at the box down the bottom left of the screen. If this parameter is set, you are only allowed to access files in the part of the web server's directory tree that are explicitly authorised in the setting of open_basedir.

Get back to me if you need more help.

[josiespencer]

I searched and looked through both this website and the LDM documentation but cannot find this one: I want my scan to search all subdirectories within the directories. How can I do this?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by josiespencer

I searched and looked through both this website and the LDM documentation but cannot find this one: I want my scan to search all subdirectories within the directories. How can I do this?

Are you using VB 3.5/LDM 2.2.1 (this thread) or are you using LDM 2.2.6 or .7 (the VB 3.6 thread)?

I take it that you want the searching of subdirectories to be automatic. This feature was first included in version 2.2.6 and improved significantly in 2.2.7, currently in the final stages before becoming official. I describe this new feature ands the 2.2.7 controls.

There are two steps:

- First, create/edit a category that knows that it is to synchronise with one of your website directories. This is done on the add/edit category page, where there is a box "Synchronise with" (see first image). This should hold a path to the local directory (this value is modified by LDM according to the current settings of the local_file_root and local_file_root_prefix settings.) Please note - if the category "synchronises", it won't at the same time accept manual entries - it's one or the other, although you can always change its state later (and if you go from sync to non-sync, it will retain the entries that are already there).

- Then go to the LDM admin settings and find the sync controls (see second image). Switch on synchronisation and enable the populate categories box. Choose a username who will be treated as creator of the entries. The other entries should be ok.

Then visit the new category, and by magic it should start synchronising. Depending on number of files and directory depth, it may not (probably will not) finish the job the first time, but on each successive visit until complete, and then once a day, it will improve the synchronisation.

OK?

[josiespencer]

Thank you very much! I upgraded to 2.2.7RC and it seems to be working fine except for the directories like cbi-bin, extras, etc. that were scanned and added as categories. When I try to delete them - they show on the Category Structure list with "0 [mass edit][scan]", I keep getting a message saying "Cannot delete a category which still contains links/subcategories". So how do I delete links when the counter says there are 0 there? And the search comes up with nothing?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by josiespencer

Thank you very much! I upgraded to 2.2.7RC and it seems to be working fine except for the directories like cbi-bin, extras, etc. that were scanned and added as categories. When I try to delete them - they show on the Category Structure list with "0 [mass edit][scan]", I keep getting a message saying "Cannot delete a category which still contains links/subcategories". So how do I delete links when the counter says there are 0 there? And the search comes up with nothing?

Good point, I'll take a look. I don't think LDM should create subcategories if there's nothing in the corresponding directory, and it should be possible to delete them again anyway.

[benjaminkramer]

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Wow........

thats the best Download Mod I'd ever seen. Thank you for this and the great german translation.

Is it possible to show the latest Downloads on my Joomla Page?

Thx