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.

[SwissPegasus]

Hy

I got a problem with uploading larger File. I always get a File Size to big error when i try to upload larger File than 8 MB.

The php.ini parameters upload_max_filesize and post_max_sizecode limit the maximum size of files that can be handled using the upload feature of LDM, irrespective of the limits set within vBulletin and LDM.

This 2 parameters are set to 20M in php ini File.

The Limit in vb Attachments is set to 20Mb too.

Do Anybody have a idea?

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SwissPegasus

[Langly]

Peoples browsers will typically time out after 8megs which is why most host providers max the uploads to 8megs. How I got around this was to split larger file into under 8meg files. It also makes your file database look larger than it is

[kontrabass]

Great hack, installed.

Couple concerns: It appears that when a non-mod/non-admin submits a link, he's able to choose the "When Submitted" date. IMO this shouldn't be allowed - anyway to disable it? Same goes with the "Review Frequency". I don't want me reg users to decide how often their link needs moderating... And also the display order can be chosen? Am I missing a setting or something?

TIA.

[Akagi]

is it possible to include a screenshot with a non-image upload? instead of having it as a url, have it as a upload. is that possible?

btw, is this hack still being supported?

edit:

im wondering if it's possible to edit the local_links.php so that it will allow the user to upload an image instead of specifying a url for the location of the image. here is the part that needs editing in local_links.php:

PHP Code:

    if ($linkimg) {
        $imgcheck = check_url($linkimg);
        if ($imgcheck == $LINK_NO_ACCESS) {
            $err = $vbphrase['ll_error_protocol'].' '.$linkimg.'. <a href='.$url.'><b>'.$vbphrase['ll_return'].'</b></a>';
            eval(standard_error($err));
            exit;
        } elseif ($imgcheck == $LINK_NO_REMOTE_DOWNLOADS) {
            $err = $vbphrase['ll_error_remote'].' '.$linkimg.'. <a href='.$url.'><b>'.$vbphrase['ll_return'].'</b></a>';
            eval(standard_error($err));
            exit;
        }
    } 


can anyone help?

[Fusion.nl]

I'm pretty sure this hack will get my vote over ecdownloads. This one looks way nicer and seems to have much more functionality. One question though:

Is it possible to extract some variables that displays download stats? Smth like this:



I'm pretty sure that total files, downloads (hits) and catagories arent much of a problem, since I've seen screens that display them. Its the total traffic I'm mostly interested in. :cheeky: And will I then be able to display those stats on any page? Preferably the front page of a vbadvanced portal.

Thnx in advance for answering this.

[Bhuwan]

Also, the "what's hot", "whats new",etc. functions don't seem to work for me!

[caliman]

huh. works for me. fantastic mod.

/me installed it today and pumped in 40 links. Tomorrow maybe I'll get off my ass.

[yessir]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Seems like a bug - there is no per-category setting - I'll check what's going on - but am going on vacation today for a couple of weeks. Thanks for letting me know.

Andrew's taking what I imagine is a much needed break.

[Ninosport]

Originally Posted by Ninosport

I'm currently running LDM and my site has two styles, the "Default" style and the "Approx" style which I installed after installing LDM. Well, I have a problem that when I view my site in the Approx style, I cannot see the "Last Post" information on the Category Link I created to connect to the LDM main page (Category: Exhaust Sound Clips Collection). The "Last Post" info DOES appear when I use the Default style, however. I tried reinstalling the LDM product with overwrite but it did not fix the problem. Any ideas on how to fix this issue?

http://www.mustangexhaust.com/forums/index.php

-Nino

Fixed it. It was a conditional in the Approx template that would not allow lastpostinfo to appear if the category was a link. Took the conditional off and all is well.

[Bhuwan]

Does anyone if it would be possible to disable the "local_stream.php" fucntion? I want to use this in correlation with Htaccess anti-hot linking, but becuase of stream.php (http referrers not passed), it does not work properly.

I want to use a direct link -- would that be possible?