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 Ophelia

Andrew, I'm back again. We are having this with a couple members.. not sure if it's the manager or the person.
Any ideas?

Yes, it's probably the download manager. Some of these seem to insist on creating the filename from the hyperlink that was originally clicked, rather than obeying the header information that is being sent to them. Maybe there is a way round it - can you let me know which download manager?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Langly

patch-showthread
patch-forumhome

Will either of these make a post in a certain forum?

No, neither of these creates posts. They just manipulate the display data before it gets sent to the user's browser

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Langly

Not sure if this is a bug or just my settings but it seems that if someone changes the site style then the LDM style still stays the same. How do I make it so that the style in LDM changes with the rest of the site?

Not sure I understand. By default LDM displays use the same style as the user sees, e.g. on the VB home page. If the admin changes the default site style, then both will change for users who have not made their own choice. If the user has made a choice (e.g by selecting a style a some stage), then I think that that choice is held in a cookie.

There are choices inside LDM admin/settings and category/edit/display settings that allow you override the style selection and to use a different default style for LDM and for individual categories than for the rest of the board.

Let me know if I'm missing something

[Langly]

Good lord. I had it set to a certain site style in the settings and not set to default. Sorry for the waste of time on that one.

[Viks]

Originally Posted by Slave

AndrewD answered this a couple of pages back ..

"allow_null_links box on the admin settings page"

If you make it "1" this will allow you to make an entry without the need for a URL

I did.
I get an error: UPLOAD Failed

Remember, im not uploading anything.. only adding TEXT in the description field which is adress of the clinic. :ermm:

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Viks

I did.
I get an error: UPLOAD Failed

Remember, im not uploading anything.. only adding TEXT in the description field which is adress of the clinic. :ermm:

I don't understand - I've just tried this and it works fine for me.

Which version of LDM are you running?

[Slave]

Just found a small bug in 2.1.0 AndrewD .. worth checking in 2.1.3

When looking at who's online while someone is looking at LDM it comes up as "Viewing Links and Downloads Manager" even though I've changed the name to just "Links" .. so it's not picking up the name change.

Also .. I've noticed that when they are looking at a cat, the cat's name shows up as the link. That's fine. But when they are looking at the Home Cat it comes up as "Home Page" .. this is a little confusing, perhaps have the name of the LDM instead as per the settings?

[kompakt]

Oh there is a bug I've discoverd as well. This applies to 2.1.2, I havent tested on 2.1.3. But when you create a new category, it doesn not assign it the new icon you give it. You'll have to edit the category after creating it to assign an icon.

[Langly]

I thought 2.1.3b2 uploads retained the orginal file name instead of changing the upload name to a string of numbers.

[Ophelia]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Yes, it's probably the download manager. Some of these seem to insist on creating the filename from the hyperlink that was originally clicked, rather than obeying the header information that is being sent to them. Maybe there is a way round it - can you let me know which download manager?

I'm assuming you are asking for the version we are using? We are using 2.1.3. If this isn't what you were asking for, let me know please