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 BPapi2004

what is the max size of the file you can upload

It's determined by several parameters, some of which are set in your php.ini file.

upload_max_filesize, and post_max_size in your php.ini

The maximum filesize setting per filetype in your VBulletin/attachments table

The upload_maxspace in LDM's params.

[AndrewD]

Good news guys and gals...

There's a new beta going to appear here tomorrow or so, with the following features...

+ Categories
can now have inheritable settings defining the appearance of categories/links (i.e. you can change the appearance setting per category), including having different new/not new display icons
+ Email notifications to moderator when link submitted/to user when accepted
+ "Featured Sites" (=selected users' favourites)
+ Final tweaks to User Profile integration
+ Linkbits
New linkbit available (intended for photolibraries)
Option to display multiple columns across some linkbits
General tidying up of linkbit templates (icons, layout)
+ Thumbnail images generated whenever possible during link creation/edit, rather than on the fly.
'thumbs_dir' indicates where these thumbnails are stored
Images generated using 'resample' algorithm rather than resize algorithm to obtain better image quality
+ Admin settings page restructured into groups and new admin settings and permissions added:
'default_style' - style to use for whole LDM board
'moderate_email_submit' and 'moderate_email_accept' - enables confirmation emails
'cat_icon' and 'cat_icon_new' - alternative category icons
'cat_cols_display' and 'link_cols_display' - vary columns of categories/links
'can_link_files' - usergroups has permission to add urls (sister to can_upload_files)
'featured_user_faves' and 'featured_sites' - controls over featured sites

Bugs fixed
> 'Report bad link' works correctly
> Phrased the admin xml file
> LDM checks for some valid mimetype information for Jukebox files
> Improved image quality of thumbnails
> 'Scan' code re-written to behave more consistently

Hope you're happy.

[poliveira]

First, this is a great mod and I really appreciate the effort in providing this to the community.

When I upload a ~15MB zipped file the upload seems OK, but the file name is changed "assume normal behavior" and when it is downloaded, the file data is corrupt.

Try to unzip the file generates the following error.
Some data in your Zip file is damaged. The CRC is ... should be ...

The uploaded and downloaded file sizes are identical.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by poliveira

When I upload a ~15MB zipped file the upload seems OK, but the file name is changed "assume normal behavior"

Normal behaviour with 2.1.0 - fixed in 2.1.1

Originally Posted by poliveira

and when it is downloaded, the file data is corrupt.Try to unzip the file generates the following error. Some data in your Zip file is damaged. The CRC is ... should be ... The uploaded and downloaded file sizes are identical.

Not normal behaviour! will investigate

Thanks

[EasyTarget]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Good news guys and gals...

There's a new beta going to appear here tomorrow or so, with the following features...

+ Categories
can now have inheritable settings defining the appearance of categories/links (i.e. you can change the appearance setting per category), including having different new/not new display icons
+ Email notifications to moderator when link submitted/to user when accepted
+ "Featured Sites" (=selected users' favourites)
+ Final tweaks to User Profile integration
+ Linkbits
New linkbit available (intended for photolibraries)
Option to display multiple columns across some linkbits
General tidying up of linkbit templates (icons, layout)
+ Thumbnail images generated whenever possible during link creation/edit, rather than on the fly.
'thumbs_dir' indicates where these thumbnails are stored
Images generated using 'resample' algorithm rather than resize algorithm to obtain better image quality
+ Admin settings page restructured into groups and new admin settings and permissions added:
'default_style' - style to use for whole LDM board
'moderate_email_submit' and 'moderate_email_accept' - enables confirmation emails
'cat_icon' and 'cat_icon_new' - alternative category icons
'cat_cols_display' and 'link_cols_display' - vary columns of categories/links
'can_link_files' - usergroups has permission to add urls (sister to can_upload_files)
'featured_user_faves' and 'featured_sites' - controls over featured sites

Bugs fixed
> 'Report bad link' works correctly
> Phrased the admin xml file
> LDM checks for some valid mimetype information for Jukebox files
> Improved image quality of thumbnails
> 'Scan' code re-written to behave more consistently

Hope you're happy.

awesome job.
would the new photo library be able to be used like the other gallery hacks? That would really benefit me since your hack uses cURL functions

If this is the case (crossing fingers) then hopefully people can release vbadvanced and forumhome add ons for previews. actually maybe that's a good addon for the links/downloads right now, a horizontal box on the forumhome with what's hot or new or random. (sorry, typing what I'm thinking lol)

another feature request would be to have permissions per category so that I can allow some users to moderate one category and other users to moderate a different one. (like maybe one will be doing photos, one files, one links, one media, etc)

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by EasyTarget

would the new photo library be able to be used like the other gallery hacks? That would really benefit me since your hack uses cURL functions

If this is the case (crossing fingers) then hopefully people can release vbadvanced and forumhome add ons for previews. actually maybe that's a good addon for the links/downloads right now, a horizontal box on the forumhome with what's hot or new or random. (sorry, typing what I'm thinking lol)

The photolibrary layout works the same way as the rest of LDM, except that its linkbit template defaults to showing several items across the page rather than just one. I suspect there'll be some adjusting necessary when you guys get your hands on it, but we'll see what we can do. I changed the algorithm used to create thumbnails, so that these are better quality - that costs quite a lot of processing time, so the thumbnails are generated when the entry is added rather than when it is viewed.

Originally Posted by EasyTarget

another feature request would be to have permissions per category so that I can allow some users to moderate one category and other users to moderate a different one. (like maybe one will be doing photos, one files, one links, one media, etc)

I'm part way there with this - in the new beta, some of the admin settings can be applied per category but not yet the permissions - but the code has been changed to enable this extension on a later occasion.

[Jaynesh]

one of my users uploaded an mp3 file, but it doesnt seem to be clickable to listen to it. how do i fix it?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Jaynesh

one of my users uploaded an mp3 file, but it doesnt seem to be clickable to listen to it. how do i fix it?

a) Take a look at VBulletin AdminCP/Attachments/Extensions and Sizes. Have you set up an entry for mp3? You need to create this with - at least - information in the mimetype field (Content-type: audio/mpeg)

b) Take a look at LDM/Admin Permissions/can_play_musicbox

[Jaynesh]

I have set up an entry it works with other songs in other categorys ( linked from music )

This song was uploaded. there is no link for it.

Take a look, http://www.lyricalsoundz.com -> Music -> Deejays

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Jaynesh

I have set up an entry it works with other songs in other categorys ( linked from music )

This song was uploaded. there is no link for it.

Take a look, http://www.lyricalsoundz.com -> Music -> Deejays

Shouldn't have happened - easiest for me is (if you're comfortable), take a dump of the local_linkslink table in your database and email it to me at ad_rodin at noos.fr. I'll check what'd happened and get back to you.

By the way, nice site!