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.

[Langly]

Andrew, how can I have it post in the forums listing the file upload date in the title before the filename? I'm using your thread plugin.

Also, I have the default setting directory to use the permissions from set in LDM but when you go to upload a file, it defaults to the first forum directory and you have to pick that forum for the permissions. Did I miss something?

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

if anyone wants (or Andrew if you want to use it as as default)...
here is the slightly modified text I use for the Auto-create thread plugin.

it makes the thread post a little clear and promotes clicking on the thread a bit more...

A New Link/File has been uploaded in the Links and Download Library!

Description:
{2}

To check it out, go to:
{1}

[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.

upgraded.

featured_linkbit setting added to enable choice of linkbit used in featured sites - actually couldn't get it work at all now. The "featured sites" category appears...but nothing in it. maybe I didn't uninstal the previous version correctly. is there something more to it then just deleting the old plugin and reuploading the new one?


category selection menu expand/collapse only shown with menu, not checkboxes - ok working

htmlspecialchars to protect quotes in links titles
profile hits list parses bbcodes - ok working

autocreate plugin creates thread url which still works ok after category move
autocreate plugin tells user that thread has been created - couldn't get it work at all now.

"I've changed it to give a different message, along the lines of 'your entry has been accepted and posted into forum XXX'"
- as above couldn't get it work so never got this message. it still just says:
"Parent Forum
Multimedia
Defines viewing permissions "

fix to stop Adobe Acrobat breaking with partial content requests - dunno. NA

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by GrendelKhan{TSU

featured_linkbit setting added to enable choice of linkbit used in featured sites - actually couldn't get it work at all now. The "featured sites" category appears...but nothing in it. maybe I didn't uninstal the previous version correctly. is there something more to it then just deleting the old plugin and reuploading the new one?

Perhaps I didn't explain well enough. When the version number doesn't change (which it didn't from 2.1.6RC2 to RC3), you have to tell VB to uninstall the product then reinstall it. Otherwise it doesn't rerun the installation code, and so doesn't make some of the new features available. Including featured sites linkbit. Sorry.

Don't worry - uninstall doesn't harm your database.

Originally Posted by GrendelKhan{TSU

autocreate plugin creates thread url which still works ok after category move
autocreate plugin tells user that thread has been created - couldn't get it work at all now.

Again, you have to reinstall the extras plugin

[Langly]

How could I get it to make the title of the thread start with the upload date?

Originally Posted by GrendelKhan{TSU

if anyone wants (or Andrew if you want to use it as as default)...
here is the slightly modified text I use for the Auto-create thread plugin.

it makes the thread post a little clear and promotes clicking on the thread a bit more...

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Langly

How could I get it to make the title of the thread start with the upload date?

I will include this in the final release - slight change to the plugin code.

[Tyegurl]

ummm i am having one last problem....i seem to not understand how to get my plugin (and which one) to make my link in the forum...i had it b4 i upgraded...now i don't. i did read but i don't understand at all what i need to do. please?

ooops two....

i can't get one of my image?(i think) paths to work...its the ./image.php when you llok at the file it deals with the time and day i do believe. i thinks its my vbad. can someone shed some light?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Tyegurl

ummm i am having one last problem....i seem to not understand how to get my plugin (and which one) to make my link in the forum...i had it b4 i upgraded...now i don't. i did read but i don't understand at all what i need to do. please?


ooops two....

i can't get one of my image?(i think) paths to work...its the ./image.php when you llok at the file it deals with the time and day i do believe. i thinks its my vbad. can someone shed some light?

I'm assuming that you want to use the new plugin which creates a new thread in a forum when a new entry is created in your LDM database?

Unfortunately, the VBulletin upgrade process deletes extra plugins, so you have to re-install the plugin.

Go to VBulletin->AdminCp/Plugins/Download and Upload Plugins
Import autocreate-plugin.xml from extras/autocreate-thread

I'm afraid I don't understand what your second question is asking.

[Tyegurl]

okay ty for that on the threads....

http://www.teamrespawn.com/vBulletin/local_links.php for the other

./image.php?u=4&dateline=1142453581 is my exact problem lol

if you need let me know and i will give you a login to use to check it out.

okay i think i figured out what part of it may be.....i think it is another hack...vbbux/vbplaza....nm lol

[Alfa1]

I recently installed 2.1.6 on the latest version of vbulletin. The search function does not work and takes me to a blank page. Any tips on how to fix that?

Edit: i just see that most of the drop downs take me to a blank page. I'll try to fix it myself first. Never mind.