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 Ian Emu-UK

I sort links by date in descending order, and when I validate all links, it forgets which ones were uploaded last and screws around with the order they are displayed. Is there a fix for this?

Will take a look. Currently the sort order is not retained between accesses - it will probably need storing in a cookie or such like.

[cclaerhout]

This new version works great ! Thank you.

[TCooper]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

I avoided offering this with the VB3.0 version, but am willing to think again. Question - what is the maximum file size you would want to upload?

Why do you need to know the max file size as you are usually limited by the server setting like in you php.ini file... which we have ours set higher for the bigger uploads we do via the browser.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by TCooper

Why do you need to know the max file size as you are usually limited by the server setting like in you php.ini file... which we have ours set higher for the bigger uploads we do via the browser.

Exactly so - before coding this, I want to make sure people aren't expecting to be able to handle arbitrarily large files. Those who run on shared servers are often limited by a small upload_max_filesize and post_max_size, around 2M.

[EasyTarget]

/me signs petition for upload capability/integration

[EasyTarget]

Originally Posted by Dreamhost

The security issue for
our servers is still severe and we will still be turning off the
allow_url_fopen...
If you are currently using this functionality in your PHP code, there is
a more powerful and
flexible option available. PHP provides excellent support for curl
library and its associated
functions.

One of our own users has written a short article describing how it is
used and that can be found
here:
http://blog.unitedheroes.net/archives/p/1630/

The official PHP documentation for it is here:
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.curl.php


This change will significantly improve the security of PHP-based
applications running on our
servers

any possiblity of getting curl support in this script?


also why does it rely on the allow_url_fopen function for links/files within the same site? I added some folders inside my forums directory for the downloads and the hack picks them up in the scan but then the links to the files don't work because the allow_url_fopen function isn't allowed, but it seems that that function shouldn't be necessary for this ability.

[EasyTarget]

when trying to delete a category which still has files/subcategories in it I am brought to the Invalid delete error, but this error gives a link which is invalid.

Originally Posted by vBulletin Links 2.0

vBulletin Message
Invalid delete - category 1 still contains links/subcategories. Return

Maybe its some error on my part, but the $url address doesn't lead anywhere for me.

*edit*
I'm running 3.5 beta 4 btw.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by EasyTarget

when trying to delete a category which still has files/subcategories in it I am brought to the Invalid delete error, but this error gives a link which is invalid.


Maybe its some error on my part, but the $url address doesn't lead anywhere for me.

*edit*
I'm running 3.5 beta 4 btw.

OK, will check - probably something simple.

Also will take a look at the curl/fopen situation

[ExpertDomino]

Claps my hands and stomps my feet.........wow that was easy to install *clicks Installs*

[Boofo]

Excellent Mod! Just what I have been looking for for my new site!

One question ... is there a way to only allow links to sites added and not downloads?