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.

[tommykjensen]

I am testing this and I found an issue with the permissions.

I have one category. The category is set to use permissions from a forum. I have added one download to the category.

The permissions on the forum that is used allow no access to anybody accept admins.

On the front page local_links.php clicking on the link under "most popular..." results in a permission denied page. Thats good.

However clicking on the links what's new or what's hot displays the attachment and download is possible even for anonymous users.

...

Ok, just found out that I can prevent that by also setting a forum to control permission on the attachment itself.

So my question is this instead: Shouldn't the attachment permission as default follow the category in which it is posted? And setting a different forum on the attachment should then overide the category permission?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by tommykjensen

I am testing this and I found an issue with the permissions.

I have one category. The category is set to use permissions from a forum. I have added one download to the category.

The permissions on the forum that is used allow no access to anybody accept admins.

On the front page local_links.php clicking on the link under "most popular..." results in a permission denied page. Thats good.

However clicking on the links what's new or what's hot displays the attachment and download is possible even for anonymous users.

...

Ok, just found out that I can prevent that by also setting a forum to control permission on the attachment itself.

So my question is this instead: Shouldn't the attachment permission as default follow the category in which it is posted? And setting a different forum on the attachment should then overide the category permission?

I've wondered about that myself. At the moment, the *default* permission for links and categories is set on the admin page. Perhaps you are right that the default link permissions should be the category's permissions and the default for the category should be as set on the admin page. There are arguments both ways. One complicating factor, for example, is that a link can be a member of more than one category.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Nam

Real quick question, how do I change the embeded media window size to 320x240 for wmv files? I tried using admin mime setting and it doesn't work.

Take a look at the links_play template. You need to make several changes - in the javascript width=800,height=500, in the width parameter on the table tag and in the width= and height= tags in the embed and object tags.

[Nam]

Thanks Adrew, not all files have the same size, how to make it autodetect please?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Nam

Thanks Adrew, not all files have the same size, how to make it autodetect please?

That is possibly a big task - it will have to be put on the list of things to think about.

[Nam]

I thought it was simple, if it's a big task then forget about it, not too many people need it anyway, thanks Andrew.

Btw, another question is that how difficult to make access to link based on category? Say Registered member can access to A and not B category, but Premium members can access to both. Just a thought.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Nam

Btw, another question is that how difficult to make access to link based on category? Say Registered member can access to A and not B category, but Premium members can access to both. Just a thought.

You do this with the forum-based permissions system.

Chose (or create) two forums which have the usergroup permissions you want, let's say Forum 1 (Registered and Premium access) and Forum 2 (Premium only)

'Associate' all the links that you want to be available to your premium users only with Forum 2. You set this on the link edit form, or you can 'mass edit' all the links in a category using the Admin/Category page

Ditto 'associate' all the links you want to be available to registered and premium users with Forum 1.

You can set LDM up so that protected links are visible (or not) to other users witht he Admin/Permissions/Can see protected links on portal permissions

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

ok... I was one of the early ones to install this and it continues to be one the best most important hack out there...great job!!

and AWESOME NEW UPDATES!!! uploads WHOOHOO!!!

question:
is it possible to have it retain the original file name of an upload?

I spend a lot of time naming files properly (as do many) and really wish it would retain the file name when downloaded.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by GrendelKhan{TSU

ok... I was one of the early ones to install this and it continues to be one the best most important hack out there...great job!!

and AWESOME NEW UPDATES!!! uploads WHOOHOO!!!

question:
is it possible to have it retain the original file name of an upload?

I spend a lot of time naming files properly (as do many) and really wish it would retain the file name when downloaded.

This will be included in 2.1.1 - I coded the change this morning.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Darat

It says:
allow_url_fopen Yes
cURL Yes
GD2 Yes

David, let's have another go at debugging this problem. Can you upload the attached and let me know when it is available