Major Additions - DownloadsII

There's a vB4 version of this mod available: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=231427

DownloadsII

DownloadsII is a download database that integrates into vBulletin. It allows you to upload files, add images to them, create categories, link to external files - and more. It is very flexible and has many options.

Because a lot of people keep on asking this:
This mod works with any version of vBulletin 3.7.x and 3.8.x!

It's also coded 100% XHTML 1.0 Transitional valid, just like vBulletin itself.



Instructions & Support

You can find an installation manual in the zip package (Readme-Install.txt).

We try to answer most questions asked in this thread. Please don't send any pm's if we don't ask for them, as we said we try to give a high level of support in this thread. Don't forget to click the install link, so you will receive important update notifications.

Screenshots & Live demo

At the bottom of this post, you can find 6 screenshots of the front-end and back-end (AdminCP part) of the DownloadsII software. You can see the newest version in action at the Minatica.be Downloads (Dutch).

Changelog (version 5.1.2)

Jelle

• Backported CSRF security fix from the vB 4 release
• Added permission check for Update Counters
• Fixed PHP warnings when running PHP 5.3
• Removed the imagecreatefrombmp() function. It doesn't exist.
• Added permission check for rating submissions

You can find all the changelogs of this and older versions here.

Help!!! I can't upload large files??

This is probably the second most asked question. Have a look at this post for the solution.

It doesn't work with GARS?!

If you also use the latest version of GARS, you will get the "Fields marked in RED must be filled in!" error when uploading a file. I provided a fix here on the GARS forums.

Addons

We are offering 3 addons for this mod at the moment (have a look at the bottom of this post for them). DownloadsII contains 5 hook locations for the vBulletin plugin systems, so you can add extra functionality without file edits.

Do you want to help expanding DownloadsII (if you are a coder)? Check out this post!

Notes

• ecDownloads Buddy is NOT compatible with this version. If you are using the Buddy, you should UNINSTALL it before installing DownloadsII ver 5.x.x. The Buddy's features are now integrated into DownloadsII.
• DownloadsII is a direct derivative work from Ron1n's ecDownloads.

Addons

• DownloadsII ver 5.0 vbAdvanced Add-On
• DownloadsII PM moderation notification
• DownloadsII Create New Thread Add-On
• DownloadsII Simple RSS Feed Add-On
• DownloadsII[Add-On] - Upload Rules

[jer2eydevil88]

Thanks :-D that works.

I Googled it shortly after asking on here but still for those of us who are not accustomed to modding vbulletin it would be nice to have that in the readme.

[maidos]

also can u please answer my second msg

[Stifmeister2]

Originally Posted by RS_Jelle

@Stifmeister2: Does it work for you?

Yes it does. Thanks!

[Black Tiger]

I got a problem. I moved my site from servers and uploaded all the files which already were in Downloads II via FTP with the according numbers in the filename like: 15567-arioner.zip
There was a problem downloading via the site so my provider activated php-suexec and now downloads are possible but another error occurs.
When downloading files via the site, the zip and rar files have errors or a map in a rar file shows as a file.
When downloading via ftp however, the file comes in correctly.

So something must be wrong but I don't know what.
Files imported and uploaded either with ftp or via the web can be downloaded without problems.

So it looks as if the files which were already present before the server move, can't be downloaded without errors anymore. Is there a fix for this?
Did I forget something or did something wrong?

Edit: Just discovered another thing when clicking in the ACP on import, it says:
The absolute path to this script is /home/mydomain/domains/mydomain.org/public_html/bbs/admincp/
It should be /home/mydomain/public_html/bbs/admincp but i don't know where to change that.
Re-imported the downloads II product but that did not change anything... help?

[maidos]

also the scriptdoesnt work on the browser AOL please check it

[Black Tiger]

About my edit: No problem in the paths, I just discovered that they're both the same bot the second one is a symlink to the other one.
I would like however quick help with the download problems.

[logofreax]

Questions about Confirm on Deleting Files.

I read that at Version 5.0.4 there will be a Window which I have to confirm, when I am deleting Files. But at my Version 5.0.4 there is no one.

How can I activate it?

cu
logofreax

[maidos]

feature request: instead of restricting size limits can u instead set amount of download restrictioninstead ?

[TheFixx]

After looking through this Mod (great job btw!), I could not find the answer to my question, and did not feel like reading all 121 pages.... lol, anyway here is the question. What I would like to do is have the download section show another box, containing the actual URL. I am using this as a place for clan members to upload files and then embed them via bbcode into the actual forum.

Unfortunately I am still in the process of learning actual coding and this is beyond me for the time, so any help would be highly appreciated.

[RS_Jelle]

Originally Posted by maidos

also can u please answer my second msg

I'm sorry, but I really don't understand the problem. I checked your downloads and I can see an Anime category. Categories can't disappear, or you should have deleted them (as that's the only existing query which can delete them).

Originally Posted by Black Tiger

I got a problem. I moved my site from servers and uploaded all the files which already were in Downloads II via FTP with the according numbers in the filename like: 15567-arioner.zip
There was a problem downloading via the site so my provider activated php-suexec and now downloads are possible but another error occurs.
When downloading files via the site, the zip and rar files have errors or a map in a rar file shows as a file.
When downloading via ftp however, the file comes in correctly.

So something must be wrong but I don't know what.
Files imported and uploaded either with ftp or via the web can be downloaded without problems.

So it looks as if the files which were already present before the server move, can't be downloaded without errors anymore. Is there a fix for this?
Did I forget something or did something wrong?

Edit: Just discovered another thing when clicking in the ACP on import, it says:
The absolute path to this script is /home/mydomain/domains/mydomain.org/public_html/bbs/admincp/
It should be /home/mydomain/public_html/bbs/admincp but i don't know where to change that.
Re-imported the downloads II product but that did not change anything... help?

Check the chmod of newly uploaded files and compare it with the chmod of old, existing files in the downloads directory on your FTP. Possibly you didn't change the chmod of the files after moving servers.

Originally Posted by maidos

also the scriptdoesnt work on the browser AOL please check it

I don't know if there's anyone else here using that browser to confirm this? I'm only testing with the major browsers: Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari.
AOL Browser seems to be built upon Internet Explorer, so it should work normally. Normally all modern browsers should work with DownloadsII as we aren't using any exotic code.

Originally Posted by logofreax

Questions about Confirm on Deleting Files.

I read that at Version 5.0.4 there will be a Window which I have to confirm, when I am deleting Files. But at my Version 5.0.4 there is no one.

How can I activate it?

cu
logofreax

That should work. Have you reverted all downloads templates to get the newest version of them (if you edited them)?

Originally Posted by maidos

feature request: instead of restricting size limits can u instead set amount of download restrictioninstead ?

That's already an existing usergroup permission: "This is the maximum number of files that a user can download in one day. Set this to -1 for there to be NO limit."

Originally Posted by TheFixx

After looking through this Mod (great job btw!), I could not find the answer to my question, and did not feel like reading all 121 pages.... lol, anyway here is the question. What I would like to do is have the download section show another box, containing the actual URL. I am using this as a place for clan members to upload files and then embed them via bbcode into the actual forum.

Unfortunately I am still in the process of learning actual coding and this is beyond me for the time, so any help would be highly appreciated.

You could edit the downloads_file template and add something like this:

    <tr> 
     <td class="alt1">Direct file link:</td>
     <td class="alt2" colspan="3" valign="middle" align="left"><input type="text" class="bginput" name="directlink" size="50" value="<if condition="$file['link']">{$directlink}<else />http://www.yoursite.com/downloads/{$directlink}</if>" /></td>
    </tr>

after:

    <tr> 
     <td class="alt1">{$vbphrase['ecdownloads_downloads']}:</td>
     <td class="alt2" colspan="3" valign="middle" align="left">{$file['downloads']}</td>
    </tr>

Change http://www.yoursite.com/downloads/ to your actual site/downloads folder url. Note that hotlinking can be problematic (everyone can link to the content on your server, so they are consuming your bandwidth).

Finally open downloads.php and find the second instance of:

PHP Code:

$downloads = vb_number_format($file['downloads']); 


Add the following on the next line:

PHP Code:

$directlink = htmlspecialchars_uni($file['url']); 


This is necessary for protection against an XSS security issue.