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Links and Downloads Manager · **Released**: 06-25-2005

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.

EasyTarget · #**1042** 01-17-2006, 05:09 AM

just a small thing for the readme.

the sidebar has 4.4 listed as favorites and 4.5 as thumbnail images, but they should be switched.

AndrewD · #**1043** 01-17-2006, 05:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EasyTarget

just a small thing for the readme.

the sidebar has 4.4 listed as favorites and 4.5 as thumbnail images, but they should be switched.

Fixed in the on-line manual - www.eirma.org/devel/LDM

EasyTarget · #**1044** 01-17-2006, 05:27 AM

I just realized that I had changed the php file names in earlier versions, I then upgraded without changing the file names and it seemed to mess up the statistics links and what's new and all that. I just upgraded again, this time changing the file names listed but those links still just give me the category does not exist, return message.

Is there a way I can fix that?

AndrewD · #**1045** 01-17-2006, 05:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EasyTarget

I just realized that I had changed the php file names in earlier versions, I then upgraded without changing the file names and it seemed to mess up the statistics links and what's new and all that. I just upgraded again, this time changing the file names listed but those links still just give me the category does not exist, return message.

Is there a way I can fix that?

Have you edited includes/local_links_init.php to set the script names?

EasyTarget · #**1046** 01-17-2006, 05:36 AM

yes. but the version in between did not have it editted.

EasyTarget · #**1047** 01-17-2006, 05:55 AM

also I'm using 2.1.2b1 now but in the information box it still lists 2.1.1, I also don't see a way to enable the photo linkbit.

Also, regarding the linkbits would it be possible to set at the category creation level so that one category can be a picture gallery and another can be a list of links, and for however the admin wants to set it up?

AndrewD · #**1048** 01-17-2006, 06:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EasyTarget

also I'm using 2.1.2b1 now but in the information box it still lists 2.1.1, I also don't see a way to enable the photo linkbit.

Also, regarding the linkbits would it be possible to set at the category creation level so that one category can be a picture gallery and another can be a list of links, and for however the admin wants to set it up?

In 2.1.2b1 you achieve this by editing the category. You will find lower down on the page (in the next beta, these will become tabbed items) the key display options which can be set for the category, and which are inherited by its children. This includes setting the preferred linkbit template

AndrewD · #**1049** 01-17-2006, 06:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EasyTarget

also I'm using 2.1.2b1 now but in the information box it still lists 2.1.1, I also don't see a way to enable the photo linkbit.

I think you've got mixtures of files and databases set up somehow. I recommend uninstalling (doesn't kill the database), then reuploading everything and reinstalling through the product installer

EasyTarget · #**1050** 01-17-2006, 06:18 AM

ok, I've done this 2 times now and the same result.. keeps saying 2.1.1, and allow overwrite is set to yes.

AndrewD · #**1051** 01-17-2006, 06:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EasyTarget

ok, I've done this 2 times now and the same result.. keeps saying 2.1.1, and allow overwrite is set to yes.

Maybe I go crazy

I've just taken a look at the zip file on the site and the contents seem to say 2.1.2 in all the right places. Usually, the failure to update the version number means that the VB installer has not run the installation code, and the only way to fix that it to uninstall

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