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.

[silurius]

I have a suggestion for a future release: usergroup security by category.

Also, is this version (or a planned release) able to hand multiple instances of LDM on one vB system?

[TundraSoul]

That's similar to what I had in mind, but that file appears to work as an external XML feed of what's new or what's hot. I guess I would like something simpler. For instance a single, collapsible, table, with a working $ldm_whats_hot or $ldm_whats_new variable that we may use in the table. I could then place the table code anywhere in forum home.

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Thanks, good idea. The guts of this are written - take a look in the release/extras/xml-external subdirectory. This delivers an xml coded list of 'What's New', but it would be easy to modify for another purpose - you would make minor changes to the lines at the end and you would provide a new template in place of links_xml.

Let me know if this is along the lines you're suggesting.

[kjmz]

Hi,

I'm trying to get the SEO Rewrite to work. I'm using .htaccess because I don't know how to use http.conf because I don't have the file anywhere on my server. I tried inserting the code from the instructions file but it came up with:

"The requested URL /home/****/public_html/local_links.php was not found on this server."

That is where it located though.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks!

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by silurius

I have a suggestion for a future release: usergroup security by category.

Do you mean *in addition* to the possibility to associate the category with a forum and pick up the usergroup security that way?

Originally Posted by silurius

Also, is this version (or a planned release) able to hand multiple instances of LDM on one vB system?

This is not yet possible. The question has been asked before, and the suggestion was to use the nested subcategory system - create your different instances one level down in the tree and set up pointers in your board to these (local_links.php?catid=N) rather than to the base category.

Is there a reason why that approach is not sufficient?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by kjmz

Hi,

I'm trying to get the SEO Rewrite to work. I'm using .htaccess because I don't know how to use http.conf because I don't have the file anywhere on my server. I tried inserting the code from the instructions file but it came up with:

"The requested URL /home/****/public_html/local_links.php was not found on this server."

That is where it located though.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks!

Nice site! Is Winnepeg always so sunny?

The documentation on Apache's mod_rewrite describes the feature as "voodoo" I'm not an expert - you might be better posting the question in a general Apache forum. However - I assume your server is running under linux? If Windows, you probably need a drivename somewhere.

You may find it helpful to include a RewriteLog statement in the .htaccess to give insight into what is going on - see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html

[kadafi_alive]

Hi AndrewD,

Do you know how I can fix the report bug. The current format is:

user( mailto:user@hotmail.com ) has reported this link: http://www.domain.comlocal_links.php...d=403.\r\nThis is the reason that the user gave:\r\n\r\ntestest.

[Wachtmeister]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

They can have different styles - each category can be assigned its own style.

Yeah, but how can i set the default style for the script? It always uses my default style.

[lanc3lot]

Sorry to be a bug, but is something similar to EC Downloads 3.3?

Can i see some short of demo, from ppl that have installed this?

[Alfa1]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

I registered at your site and went into the 'Add Link' page and I can see the "Upload File" box. This should not be visible to me if you have configured your site so that other users cannot upload. Take a look at the "permissions" page - have you given registered users 'can_upload_files' privilege?

Registered members should be able to upload, but they can't. Have you tried to upload a file?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Registered members should be able to upload, but they can't. Have you tried to upload a file?

Sorry, I misunderstood your original question. Just to be clear, can you confirm:

- As admin, you *can* successfully upload files
- As a *registered user*, I should be able to upload, but I get the error message Error - unable to move uploaded file on server, and the same thing happens to your other registered users?