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 silurius

Another request: Could you look into integration with James' Redirect hack?

Yes, there is another request to provide an intermediate page before redirecting, so I'll find a way to include this (or something like it)

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Ian Emu-UK

Andrew, would it be possible to make LDM auto delete uploaded files from a set category. I was thinking about adding a requests section for small files, obviously these files wouldn't be needed forever so if they were pruned after 7 days and deleted from the server by the script it would save me a bit of time and sever space as I know full well I'd forget to delete things.

I only updated to a version that allowed uploads a couple of days ago and it's great. Your efforts are appreciated, thanks.

Will do. Perhaps better than 'prune after N days' is 'prune after N days with no hits'?

[Ian Emu-UK]

That would be better your right

[mariannet]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Marianne, I'm at a bit of a loss to help you, since this hack doesn't touch the customavatar table, nor the list of userids. What else have you installed?

Ohh.. I'm cursing like a man these days!
It seems to happen everytime I install og uninstall something through plugin system.
Same error everytime!

SELECT dateline, userid FROM customavatar WHERE userid =;

on forum home, everything else works fine

[mariannet]

Originally Posted by mariannet

Ohh.. I'm cursing like a man these days!
It seems to happen everytime I install og uninstall something through plugin system.
Same error everytime!

SELECT dateline, userid FROM customavatar WHERE userid =;

on forum home, everything else works fine

FIXED IT!!
Had both Honorable Member CMPS (only) and Honorable Member installed, removed one and all my problems went away

[fortnox]

Hi!

I use this tool only for Linkdatabase. User can write links and comments.

Now i have a problem and i don`t know how i can do this.

I have a main categorie -> next kategories -> next kategories -> here users can put a Link.

The problem is, that Users can put links after the Main Categorie, thats not good. Users should only put links in the last Kategorie.

I hope you can understand what i mean :nervous:

My next Question is:

How can i make it that comments always show ?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by fortnox

Hi!

I use this tool only for Linkdatabase. User can write links and comments.

Now i have a problem and i don`t know how i can do this.

I have a main categorie -> next kategories -> next kategories -> here users can put a Link.

The problem is, that Users can put links after the Main Categorie, thats not good. Users should only put links in the last Kategorie.

I hope you can understand what i mean :nervous:

Yes, I think I understand. I will experiment a little and will try to give you an answer tomorrow.

Originally Posted by fortnox

My next Question is:

How can i make it that comments always show ?

I'm afraid I don't understand this question - do you want all the comments to be visible in the main category display, so that users do not need to click on 'view comments' to see them?

[mccollin]

I'm looking for a links and downloads module, and this looks pretty good. One question I have on this. How hard would it be to import files from a download forum that we've been using for a while. The downloads are attachments in that forum, and the thread titles are the name of the downloads... body is the comments. Has anyone done this?

[fortnox]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Yes, I think I understand. I will experiment a little and will try to give you an answer tomorrow.




I'm afraid I don't understand this question - do you want all the comments to be visible in the main category display, so that users do not need to click on 'view comments' to see them?

Very thanks for your experiment :classic:

With my second Question i mean:

If i open a Link, on right side stand: show rates and comments. so i must klick on it to see all rates and comments. Is it possible to can see rates and comments always under the link ? :nervous:

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by fortnox

Very thanks for your experiment

The easiest way to achieve this at the moment is to 'close' all the categories in which you do not want your users to add new entries. Leave open the categories where you want them to be able to add new entries. You do this with Administer/Categories/open and close. Closed categories will accept entries from the admin but not from other users.

The next release will provide separate 'add link' permissions for each category, making it easier to do what you want.

Originally Posted by fortnox

With my second Question i mean:

If i open a Link, on right side stand: show rates and comments. so i must klick on it to see all rates and comments. Is it possible to can see rates and comments always under the link ? :nervous:

No, this is not possible at present, because a) it would probably make the display look a mess and b) it makes the database query more complicated and expensive to perform. I'll give it some thought.