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.

[TundraSoul]

It looks like you have the seo_friendly option enabled. You can disable it, which will work or you'll have to configure your apache configuration file to allow for custom mod rewrites. See the manual, click on clever stuff, choose item 8.3.

Originally Posted by GlobalFusion

Ok. I installed LDM 2.1.0 - and added some categories and a few links.

Everything looks good - except...

When I click/hover over a category link, it shows the wrong URL.

Links Show:

http://forums.designerfusion.com/local_links/links/1

Which gives a 404.

You can test it for yourself:

url: http://forums.designerfusion.com
Username: test
Password: test


Please let me know how/why etc.

I really need this fixed asap.

[GlobalFusion]

Originally Posted by TundraSoul

It looks like you have the seo_friendly option enabled. You can disable it, which will work or you'll have to configure your apache configuration file to allow for custom mod rewrites. See the manual, click on clever stuff, choose item 8.3.

Excellent!

Did the job perfectly.

Thanks for the tip.

[Johhhn]

Originally Posted by elsupremo

3. Thumbnails: I struggled to get the "thumbnail caching" feature to work. However, I realized that I need to write the correct permission for the "thumbs_dir" folder, and then it worked perfectly. You should remind people that they need to "777" the thumbs directory.

777?

Isn't this bad to do from a security standpoint?

[Langly]

Does anyone know how to make this show the total amount of files list in vbportal under the mini-stats area?

[elsupremo]

Originally Posted by Johhhn

777?

Isn't this bad to do from a security standpoint?

I do not know, to be honest, all I know is that the website has to be able to write to whatever your thumbs directory is in order to create the thumbnails. It seems that only doing it to your thumbs direc. isn't so bad, assuming that's all you use the directory for.

[Langly]

Something I've been pondering over is if this can be made into a credit system for a forum. Each user gets "X" amount of download credits to spend. They can get more credits if they upload files, post in the forums, or even get double credits if they click on a banner ads (this would be limited to given once per day per user though). Would something like this be able to done?

Cheers

[animehawk]

@Langly: I really like that idea. I think www.animeotaku.info uses a system like that. I have asked how to do it but Ranma never got back with me.

Does anyone know how to place restrictions on the number of links a user can click on in a 24 hour period? I host large downloads and need to only allow each user to download x number of files a day. Any help would be appreciated.

[elsupremo]

Originally Posted by animehawk

@Langly: I really like that idea. I think www.animeotaku.info uses a system like that. I have asked how to do it but Ranma never got back with me.

Does anyone know how to place restrictions on the number of links a user can click on in a 24 hour period? I host large downloads and need to only allow each user to download x number of files a day. Any help would be appreciated.

Yes, this is in 2.1.2 beta, in the Administration dropdown menu under "Download Quotas". You can choose file limits per day or bandwidth limits per day, based on user groups.

[Bhuwan]

Any way to disable the link checking? It always seems to fail for me.

[wdlove]

Originally Posted by Langly

Something I've been pondering over is if this can be made into a credit system for a forum. Each user gets "X" amount of download credits to spend. They can get more credits if they upload files, post in the forums, or even get double credits if they click on a banner ads (this would be limited to given once per day per user though). Would something like this be able to done?

Cheers

I would like to be able to set up a credit type of system also.