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.

[blueberry]

hi.. i am a newbie.. hope that someone can help me out... i have one question regarding the understanding of this program.. I dont want to upload any files for the time being... but i just want people to be able to download... Is the software already linked to program databases.. or it is empty and i should add everything to it? Thanks

[MissKalunji]

if i understand properly you should have to add everything yourself

Like category etc etc

[blueberry]

after studying the manual for the LDM, i found out that you can upload an xml files with links to tv stations or music... do you have a file to link to program databse instead?? this should be great... waiting for anyone to answer me!!

[|oR|Greg]

Originally Posted by Taylor123

I am also having a problem with the image upload option
"Upload error - unable to create a user subdirectory on server."
I have uploads enabled and the upload directory is linked in the admin...

and is there a way for me to completely take off the file upload option when a user adds a link. I only need the image upload (if i can get it to work)

I set

Did you CHMOD the directory correctly?

[|oR|Greg]

Originally Posted by MissKalunji

i was able to manage

Think you have some time to do something like that? custom work perhaps? pm me

just the right part

That should actually be really easy to do. It's just a table with 2 cells, left cell has I'm guessing a nested table with a few rows, and the right cell has the thumbnail if included.

[MissKalunji]

Well if you could assist me would be greatly appreciated

[|oR|Greg]

Originally Posted by MissKalunji

Well if you could assist me would be greatly appreciated

This is the very BASIC layout code for the formatting of the template. However it's missing all the LDM variable references and associated IF statements as well as the correct width/height formatting. Hopefully it's a start? :banana:

Attached is what this basic code looks like.

<table border="1" width="586" height="255">
	<tr>
		<td height="41" width="272" align="center">File Information</td>
		<td height="41" width="298" align="center">Screenshot</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td height="204" width="272">
		<table border="1" width="294" height="145" id="table1">
			<tr>
				<td height="23" width="129" align="left">Name:</td>
				<td height="23" width="149" align="left">&nbsp;</td>
			</tr>
			<tr>
				<td height="26" width="129" align="left">Author:</td>
				<td height="26" width="149" align="left">&nbsp;</td>
			</tr>
			<tr>
				<td height="34" width="129" align="left">Submitted by:</td>
				<td height="34" width="149" align="left">&nbsp;</td>
			</tr>
			<tr>
				<td height="25" width="129" align="left">Submitted:</td>
				<td height="25" width="149" align="left">&nbsp;</td>
			</tr>
			<tr>
				<td height="3" width="129" align="left">Views:</td>
				<td height="3" width="149" align="left"></td>
			</tr>
			<tr>
				<td height="10" width="129" align="left">Downloads:</td>
				<td height="10" width="149" align="left"></td>
			</tr>
		</table>
		</td>
		<td height="204" width="298">
		<p align="center">&nbsp;</td>
	</tr>
</table>

[|oR|Greg]

MissKalunji, looking at the layout in more detail I see there is a whole bottom section I missed. Heh. Additionally, LDM isn't as extensive with tracking views versus downloads, nor can you do file notification, direct linking to a specific forum, etc...

[MissKalunji]

Thats all i needed and the comment can you add the comment at the bottom? and how do i attach it to link?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by blueberry

hi.. i am a newbie.. hope that someone can help me out... i have one question regarding the understanding of this program.. I dont want to upload any files for the time being... but i just want people to be able to download... Is the software already linked to program databases.. or it is empty and i should add everything to it? Thanks

LDM gives you and your users the means to create and access downloads. It does not come pre-configured with any databases - that is something you have to sort out. You can limit it so that uploads are possible or prohibited, etc, etc - it's all very flexible.