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 obmob

o.o ok, i'm struggling with the CVS importer, is there a way to add more info into this?

As an example, creation date... or current hits, i have all this info in my old script, and would love to paste it directly and not modify every file induvidually u.u

Or... i'd love to know if there is some tool to create sql queries out of CVS files? Oo

I remember once trying to do this with excel, but when i exported as text, there were some spaces between variables and the code never ran into phpmyadmin ><

The csv import/export code is very old - it was more or less the first thing written for LDM before it was even called LDM. There is also XML import/export code, which handles everything in the LDM database, I'd recommend, if you need to make changes, that you start with that code.

The XML exporter in built in as LDM/admin/import and export
The importer is in the 'extras' directory in the release

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by lexx27

Sorry if I wasnt clear. When I link an mp3 file the code generates a broken thumbnail.

In case this is the same problem just solved on another site - have you installed the LDM 'id3-handles' extra in order to tag/scan mp3s?

If so - if you upload the getid3 code into the wrong place, you get this 'blank screen' bug when uploading files.

The getid3 subdirectory has to be directly in the forums directory:
yoursite->forums->getid3
Not, e.g.
yoursite->forums->getid3->getid3

For what it's worth!

[lexx27]

ok, I ll try it and tell you. Thank you very much

[rogersnm]

when do you think a vb3.6 compatible version will be out? and will it keep all the listings all ready entered?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by rogersnm

when do you think a vb3.6 compatible version will be out? and will it keep all the listings all ready entered?

I guarantee () that you will not lose anything.

As for when it will be ready, that all depends on how much of the base code I discover that the VB guys have changed. These things tend to be buried in the undergrowth. I hope that it's not going to be anything like as big a job as the move from vb3.0 to 3.5.

[lexx27]

Its working. Thank you!

[rogersnm]

it shouldn't be becuase it's "mainly a feature feast"

[Axl-Rose]

got a problem with LDM...

I've got 2 servers! one with the forum on it and the other with the files...
my forum server is daly out of traffic...

but if i set force_redirect to 2 (a standard html hyperlink is shown) no traffic comes up....

what can i do, to use the link protection?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Axl-Rose

got a problem with LDM...

I've got 2 servers! one with the forum on it and the other with the files...
my forum server is daly out of traffic...

but if i set force_redirect to 2 (a standard html hyperlink is shown) no traffic comes up....

what can i do, to use the link protection?

Bit of a problem, this one...

If you want to keep the file location completely hidden, then the LDM script has to handle file reading and writing. There is no alternative, as far as I know.

It is reasonably efficient to do this provided the script can use built in file handling routines. However, if you put LDM and the files on different servers (using http as channel of access between the two), then the reading/rewriting process becomes expensive.

By setting force_redirect to 2, you remove all the server load at a price of making the file location visible.

Why do you want to place the files on a different server?

[maroceve]

i am really having troubles seting up for people to upload the files ..they can oly link ...

if anyone can please help me, my msn is hamzaalami@gmail.com

thanks.