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.

[Tyegurl]

Originally Posted by |oR|Greg

What's the problem? What are you trying to do? I code a little with vBA, not much though, maybe I can help.

i want the side modules on the page when you upload but i can't get that.

nm the updated zip fixed it.

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Attached zip should fix the reported bugs with 2.1.6RC2.

Administration
featured_linkbit setting added to enable choice of linkbit used in featured sites
Bugs fixed
category selection menu expand/collapse only shown with menu, not checkboxes
htmlspecialchars to protect quotes in links titles
profile hits list parses bbcodes
autocreate plugin creates thread url which still works ok after category move
autocreate plugin tells user that thread has been created
fix to stop Adobe Acrobat breaking with partial content requests

Those testing the autocreate forum plugin - please note that you will need to remove the existing plugin manually and reinstall it.

Grateful for a quick check on these problems.

thank goodness for bad inflight movies. lol
<< runs off to install fixes. THANKS!~!! I'll let ya know how it goes.


btw... anyone know what to do with this...?

Is there any way to control the column widths for the Title, Description, and number of entries?

My title is all smooshed up while the description takes up waaaaaaay too much width unneccessarily.


I don't want to change the templates either just to have it wiped out with next update. (but I will cause it looks fugly as is. ) where would I go to change that anyway?

(along the same line: is there a way or how would go about controlling how the subforum categories links are displayed?)
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[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by GrendelKhan{TSU

btw... anyone know what to do with this...?

I need to think some more about this. It really needs a new module in LDM to allow the admin to set some style vars for LDM - like in the VB styles and templates editor. But I haven't really got the time to write one.

[Langly]

I was reading one of your earlier posts about upgrading and having to redo some stuff to your present install (I don't recall what it was off hand) I'm using v2.1.3b1, or b2. I want to upgrade to the 2.1.6r2 but wanted to make sure of what I do beforehand. So far, I have about 2000 downloads which I've had to manually add, descriptions as well, 3 times. All due to host providers though.

Basically, I just overwrite my present install with whats in the 2.1.6r2 zip and then import the xml product, selecting overwrite? Does this sound right?

BTW, hows the "credit system" for LDM coming along?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Langly

I was reading one of your earlier posts about upgrading and having to redo some stuff to your present install (I don't recall what it was off hand) I'm using v2.1.3b1, or b2. I want to upgrade to the 2.1.6r2 but wanted to make sure of what I do beforehand. So far, I have about 2000 downloads which I've had to manually add, descriptions as well, 3 times. All due to host providers though.

Basically, I just overwrite my present install with whats in the 2.1.6r2 zip and then import the xml product, selecting overwrite? Does this sound right?

That's right - you won't lose anything. It's always a good idea to take a backup of your database before doing any upgrade.

If people have installed some of the optional extras, which are provided as extra plugins, then these need to be deleted and reinstalled, but this probably doesn't apply to you.

Originally Posted by Langly

BTW, hows the "credit system" for LDM coming along?

The 'hooks' are there, but it isn't one of my priorities to write the interface to a points management system.

[sickboy6ths]

Ehrm guys, where the hell is 6rc2 ?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by sickboy6ths

Ehrm guys, where the hell is 6rc2 ?

Exactly where the link in the first post tells you to look.

[louis_chypher]

Database error in vBulletin 3.5.4:

Invalid SQL:
;

MySQL Error : Query was empty
Error Number : 1065
Date : Friday, March 31st 2006 @ 05:48:52 AM
Script : http://www.bbdsms.com/forums/local_links.php
Referrer :
IP Address : Xx.XXX.XXX.XXX
Username : XXXXXXXXXX
Classname : vb_database

Is what I get when I go th the local_links.php page. Its probablly something I did. I uninstalled and reinstalled several times to no avail. Hints?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by louis_chypher

Database error in vBulletin 3.5.4:

Invalid SQL:
;

MySQL Error : Query was empty
Error Number : 1065
Date : Friday, March 31st 2006 @ 05:48:52 AM
Script : http://www.bbdsms.com/forums/local_links.php
Referrer :
IP Address : Xx.XXX.XXX.XXX
Username : XXXXXXXXXX
Classname : vb_database

Is what I get when I go th the local_links.php page. Its probablly something I did. I uninstalled and reinstalled several times to no avail. Hints?

First time I've seen this! TO ask the obvious, did you run the product installation process or just upload code?

[louis_chypher]

I ran the product installation process. On the last few installs I've followed, carefully, the install instructions as laid out on http://www.eirma.org/devel/LDM/index.html?title.html&0. I also have ran the local_links_kill.php to delete the db tables and then did several complete reinstalls.

Your suggestion of completly removing the files, downloading a new zip and reinstalling from scratch worked. Thanks for your time and effort with this issue.