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 LoOnEyToOnZ

Hi.

I am getting upload limit error
(Error - upload larger than maximum size allowed.)
when i try to upload files into the system.

I already added the filetype into the attachments part of Admin CP and also given it a big size limit, but still doesnt help...

Check each of the following:

* file is smaller than maximum filesize specified in VB attachment table for the given filetype
* file smaller than the values in your php.ini for the parameters upload_max_filesize and post_max_sizecode

[DKN]

Does anyone know how to be able to upload more than 3MB with this? My file size limits in the ACP are high. My upload_max_filesize, post_max_size, and memory_limit are all high. When I use a simple php upload script, which basically uploads a file to a temp folder and then moves that file to another folder, allows anything over 3MB to be uploaded. But for some reason this mod and attachment do not allow anything higher than 3MB to be uploaded. What happens when I upload a file that is over 3MB, is that it only uploads 35KB of that file. I noticed that the error messages that I recieve in my email, shows that it uploads the filedata into the database, which is pretty long. :ermm:

[DKN]

I found the fix. If anyone has the same problem as me, make sure you go to vBulletin Options - > Message Attachment Options and change the limit in Limit Space Taken Up By Attachments (Total).

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by DKN

I found the fix. If anyone has the same problem as me, make sure you go to vBulletin Options - > Message Attachment Options and change the limit in Limit Space Taken Up By Attachments (Total).

I'm a little :ermm: confused, as LDM does not use (as far as I know) the code and limits that VB uses for attachments

[Code Monkey]

I seem to find this in my error logs a lot now.

File does not exist: /home/blah/blah.com/html/forums/local_links

Everything seems to work fine. Though I am not using a lot of the features so maybe I missed something. I simply upgraded the old one which I am only using for links. Is that a directory I am supposed to create for the file features?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by JumpD

I seem to find this in my error logs a lot now.

File does not exist: /home/jsr_admin/joystickrequired.com/html/forums/local_links

Everything seems to work fine. Though I am not using a lot of the features so maybe I missed something. I simply upgraded the old one which I am only using for links. Is that a directory I am supposed to create for the file features?

I think you should check the links admin page - take a look to see if the setting seo_friendly has got itself set to 1. Set it to 0. Your home page has a lot of 'search engine' friendly links in the 'Hot links' group which are all broken and will trigger this error.

Someone else reported this - I'm not sure how, but it seems that people are inadvertently (or my code is inadvertently) changing this setting.

[Code Monkey]

I set it that way. I obviously misunderstood it's intent.

[Code Monkey]

Works now. Thanks. I got the idea that it would make the links function in a seo friendly way. Obviously, it has a different function.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by JumpD

I set it that way. I obviously misunderstood it's intent.

For LDM's seo_friendly to work, you also have to configure apache -see section 8.3 in the instructions.txt

[Code Monkey]

Yes, I understand the configuration issues.

If you ever get time, you might want to make the configuration pages actual CP home pages and add the help button feature. Might eliminate silliness from dummies like me.