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 Alfa1

I have one category as the main index(forum link). Under that are many layers of sub-categories. The link in the forum only shows the latest added file in the main index. Not the latest added file of all categories.
The same goes for all categories I have linked with the forum; they only show the latest file in that categorie, not in all sub-categories thereoff.

OK, understood. You would like the forum entry to show the latest entry in any of the child categories?

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Is there a solution yet for opening the pdf's straight from the link directory?

I'm sorry - I don't understand this question.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by BPapi2004

Question: Many users on my site have really would like to show a Progress bar on the Uploads. They dont really know whats happening when all it says is processing Is there anyway you can do this? By replacing code

I believe that this is quite difficult to do. You have to have a separate process running on the web server to track how much has been uploaded, and, from what I've read, it doesn't work reliably on all systems.

[BPapi2004]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

I believe that this is quite difficult to do. You have to have a separate process running on the web server to track how much has been uploaded, and, from what I've read, it doesn't work reliably on all systems.

How about imputing a Java Uploader to the add links page

[EasyTarget]

the progress bar would be useful for me as well, not just my users lol.

[Alfa1]

Yes, I'd like the forum entry to show the latest entry in any of the child categories.

When clicking on a pdf in the LDM, it will not open. Since the earlier in this thread it was stated that there is no solution to this, I would like to know if you have found one in the mean time.

BTW; the new functions in the beta version look very promising. I will surely upgrade.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

When clicking on a pdf in the LDM, it will not open. Since the earlier in this thread it was stated that there is no solution to this, I would like to know if you have found one in the mean time

I wrote LDM mainly to handle pdfs on my site and it works just fine. The issue is about how Adobe Acrobat integrates itself with the browser. Depending on how you have set it up, the difficulty can be in triggering an Open/Save As dialogue.

[dapinard]

Getting the following error..."Fatal error: [] operator not supported for strings in /home/takeback/public_html/forums/local_links.php on line 233". I get this from a link to a specific category (local_links.php?catid=1) or from within the LDM admin panel when clicking on view within the category structure section. You can see it here. Takebackcharlotte.com

I recently upgraded to VB 3.5.3, and LDM 2.1.2b. I was at 3.07 and 1.6 for a long time with no issues. I originally let it upgrade the 1.6 db and have since uninstalled, removed the tables and re-installed from scratch and then re-imported the links. Has anyone else seen this? Hopefully I fat fingered something in the install, but I'm running out of ideas...

Heres my version info...
Links Database
Code 2.1.2
MySQL 4.1.14-standard
PHP 4.4.0
allow_url_fopen Yes
cURL Yes
GD2 Yes
open_basedir /home/takeback/:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp

Thx -Dave

[BPapi2004]

Hmm, Is there anyway to get a module for Vbadvanced that showed most downloaded files?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by dapinard

Getting the following error..."Fatal error: [] operator not supported for strings in /home/takeback/public_html/forums/local_links.php on line 233". I get this from a link to a specific category (local_links.php?catid=1) or from within the LDM admin panel when clicking on view within the category structure section. You can see it here. Takebackcharlotte.com

I recently upgraded to VB 3.5.3, and LDM 2.1.2b. I was at 3.07 and 1.6 for a long time with no issues. I originally let it upgrade the 1.6 db and have since uninstalled, removed the tables and re-installed from scratch and then re-imported the links. Has anyone else seen this? Hopefully I fat fingered something in the install, but I'm running out of ideas...

Heres my version info...
Links Database
Code 2.1.2
MySQL 4.1.14-standard
PHP 4.4.0
allow_url_fopen Yes
cURL Yes
GD2 Yes
open_basedir /home/takeback/:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp

Thx -Dave

My fault, forgetting to initialise an array, although why this hits you and not others, I don't understand.

Can you try editing local_links.php, go to line 120

$master_title = iif...

and add a line

$query = array();

I hope that will fix it. Let me know.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by BPapi2004

Hmm, Is there anyway to get a module for Vbadvanced that showed most downloaded files?

ldm_hot in the modules subdirectory. Explained in the installation instructions, section 8.5