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 Ian Emu-UK

I sort links by date in descending order, and when I validate all links, it forgets which ones were uploaded last and screws around with the order they are displayed. Is there a fix for this?

I realise that this was a 'feature' which I included a long time ago. When the validation finds that the file has changed size, it treats it as new and changes the datestamp. I think this is probably an unwanted feature, so will remove it in 2.0.2, so that dates of submission should not change. Version 2.0.2 also has per-category preferred sort orders.

[lttcoder]

Ok I am switching from Vbdownloads to Links and downloasd manager 2.0.1 mainly because I am tired of the support I get there. And there is a search bug that pisses me off.

[lttcoder]

I installed this.

And when I go to categories page I cannot see any "Create new category button" only this screen



And when I click on the SUBMIT button (the only button on that page)

I get this error

Invalid SQL:

               UPDATE local_linkscat SET
               catclosed=1
               WHERE catid IN (0,);

MySQL Error  : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ')' at line 3
Error Number : 1064
Date         : Monday, August 15th 2005 @ 05:05:31 AM
Script       : http://www.opensc.ws/local_links_admin.php
Referrer     : http://www.opensc.ws/local_links_admin.php?action=admin&set=categories
IP Address   : *.*.*.*
Username     : LttCoder
Classname    : vb_database

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by lttcoder

I installed this.

And when I go to categories page I cannot see any "Create new category button" only this screen



And when I click on the SUBMIT button (the only button on that page)

I get this error

Invalid SQL:

               UPDATE local_linkscat SET
               catclosed=1
               WHERE catid IN (0,);

MySQL Error  : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ')' at line 3
Error Number : 1064
Date         : Monday, August 15th 2005 @ 05:05:31 AM
Script       : http://www.opensc.ws/local_links_admin.php
Referrer     : http://www.opensc.ws/local_links_admin.php?action=admin&set=categories
IP Address   : *.*.*.*
Username     : LttCoder
Classname    : vb_database

I'll check the error - probably the link you hit was not supposed to be hit with an empty database.

To create a new category, select the drop down menu under Category (the new banner menu) and chose Home Category. That takes you to the base Category. The menu now has a new item, Add Category, which allows you to create your first category. After you create the category, the menu will have a new item on it Add Link

[lttcoder]

Andrew, I doesnt display the "ADD CATEGORY". Is there a way you can sign-up at my forums, and I'll give u privileges to create/manage links??

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by lttcoder

Andrew, I doesnt display the "ADD CATEGORY". Is there a way you can sign-up at my forums, and I'll give u privileges to create/manage links??

By all means - but where is your board? Maybe you can create me an account with administrator privs and send me a private message with the details?

[lttcoder]

AndrewD, check private message.

[lttcoder]

ok problem solved, the "add category" isnt showing on Internet Explorer 7 beta.
Else it works fine.

[AndrewD]

Version 2.0.2 uploaded - comments please.

[lttcoder]

<font color="DarkOliveGreen">* LttCoder signs petition for upload capability/integration</font>