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.

[MSJA]

AndrewD,

Wow, great mod, and thanks for sharing! :up:

With regards to post #1942, will you be implementing a 301 redirect? I think this would be best for SEO purposes.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by MSJA

AndrewD,

Wow, great mod, and thanks for sharing! :up:

With regards to post #1942, will you be implementing a 301 redirect? I think this would be best for SEO purposes.

Thanks for the hint - I was wondering how best to deal with this suggestion

[Alfa1]

Originally Posted by Slave

Err .. do you mean like the following ..

http://www.yaxleyvillage.com/local_links.php

This is possible by just wrapping LDM within vBa .. If you have a look in the manual for vBa it tells you how to do it .. (and you can have as many modules as you like on the page, as well as choosing if you want a 2 or 3 column layout)

Yes, that is what I mean. Now I need to get rid of the vB navbar and make LDM smaller (less wide) to fit in there.

[Tyegurl]

andrewd,

thanks for the update on this...i see you fixed a few of my problems! not that they were mine alone but i want to thank you for the extensive time you have put into this. every time i update this manager only gets better.

i will let you know (of course) if i have problems with this update but so far its been perfect. even created the thread by itself...couldn't believe it...i have been gone so maybe it was fixed all ready but this is great!!

[AndrewD]

Firstr beta withdrawn - second beta in main post to this thread.

I've sat on this for a while, but think it needs a bit of testing. I believe that it works correctly with VB35 and VB36 and that VB35 installations will survive the upgrade to VB36. To improve performance, I've split up the main code into new files, so possibly there will be broken command links.

What's new?

Handles VB3.5 and 3.6
Extras
- patch-forumhome-newlinks sets up list of new/hot links for forumhome
- two versions of lightbox addin, a simpler/more reliable and a fancier version
Moderation
- Can be enabled/disabled per category
WYSIWYG editor
- Available for add/edit/rate entry
Sorting
- By submitting user
User profile integration
- Lists user's latest entries as well as latest hits

Bugs fixed
- Attempts to access entries that have moved to another category trigger an HTTP 301 redirect
- Edits no longer trigger "new entry" message on category if latest date becomes earlier than user's last visit
- id3-handle plugins no longer kill LDM if getid3 subdirectory uploaded incorrectly
- Keywords can contain quotes
- Realmedia jukebox filetypes modified to avoid starting with characters 'rm '
- XHTML corrected in admin/settings pages

I would appreciate some testing from brave users who remember to back up their databases....

[Slave]

Hi Andrew

Can I suggest you create a new thread for the 3.6 version in the 3.6 hacks area and then put a freeze on 3.5 development (like you did with the 3.0 thread) .. Once 3.6 goes gold mind you

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Slave

Hi Andrew

Can I suggest you create a new thread for the 3.6 version in the 3.6 hacks area and then put a freeze on 3.5 development (like you did with the 3.0 thread) .. Once 3.6 goes gold mind you

Once it goes gold....

So far, I've only caught one area where we needed parallel versions of code, which was to handle the profilefields integration

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

I've sat on this for a while, but think it needs a bit of testing. I believe that it works correctly with VB35 and VB36 and that VB35 installations will survive the upgrade to VB36. To improve performance, I've split up the main code into new files, so possibly there will be broken command links.

What's new?

Handles VB3.5 and 3.6
Extras
- patch-forumhome-newlinks sets up list of new/hot links for forumhome
- two versions of lightbox addin, a simpler/more reliable and a fancier version
Moderation
- Can be enabled/disabled per category
WYSIWYG editor
- Available for add/edit/rate entry
Sorting
- By submitting user
User profile integration
- Lists user's latest entries as well as latest hits

Bugs fixed
- Attempts to access entries that have moved to another category trigger an HTTP 301 redirect
- Edits no longer trigger "new entry" message on category if latest date becomes earlier than user's last visit
- id3-handle plugins no longer kill LDM if getid3 subdirectory uploaded incorrectly
- Keywords can contain quotes
- Realmedia jukebox filetypes modified to avoid starting with characters 'rm '
- XHTML corrected in admin/settings pages

I would appreciate some testing from brave users who remember to back up their databases....

awesome!

does this version help deal with the BLANK SCREEN upload problem some of are getting?

anyword on that btw?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by GrendelKhan{TSU

awesome!

does this version help deal with the BLANK SCREEN upload problem some of are getting?

anyword on that btw?

I thought I had dealt with this - the other person reporting the problem had not installed the software correctly (partly my fault, because the code didn't pick up the mistake). The new version has some extra error checking built in for two situations where I could foresee problems. But it is possible that there are other problems at your site.

[obmob]

Oo you added more phrases to this version?

Need some spanish customisations? ^^

u.u don't know if i'm that brave... i'd love to wait till 3.6 is gold.