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.

[Benj]

well list yeah wondering if it would be possible to filter list by cat and maybe if possible by day week month...

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by benj

well list yeah wondering if it would be possible to filter list by cat and maybe if possible by day week month...

The administrator can already do this. Go to admin/statistics, then View Hits, and you can produce reports by date, IP, username - and if you have installed a particular ip-to-country database, you can even get a listing by country.

Are you wanting the normal users to see this information?

[bhxtyrant]

Hey Andrew,
Once again a small question.No errors or anything this time.I was thinking aboiut upgrading our forums to 3.5 today but of course that means updating all the mods we have installed as well including Links and Files Database.I was just wondering and hopeing that there is an Upgrade option from the old version to this newer versions so i don't have to re-add all the 1000+ links i already added to the database.Is this possible?Thanks alot.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by bhxtyrant

Hey Andrew,
Once again a small question.No errors or anything this time.I was thinking aboiut upgrading our forums to 3.5 today but of course that means updating all the mods we have installed as well including Links and Files Database.I was just wondering and hopeing that there is an Upgrade option from the old version to this newer versions so i don't have to re-add all the 1000+ links i already added to the database.Is this possible?Thanks alot.

It upgrades automatically - just take a backup to be on the safe side.

[Benj]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

The administrator can already do this. Go to admin/statistics, then View Hits, and you can produce reports by date, IP, username - and if you have installed a particular ip-to-country database, you can even get a listing by country.

Are you wanting the normal users to see this information?

yeah i am, im planning to letting users upload mp3s so they can battle it out to see who can get to the top of the "chart" so id preferably need daily weekly monthly stats which can be filtered into their respective cats... but hey not all are curial, just need a list to start with


cheers

[csidlernet]

thankyouverymuch!!!!

[bhxtyrant]

Thanks Andrew.got some more questions now that i have this mod and vB3.5 up and running.Near the top of the main page of LDM it has this text.

Links and Downloads Database
The database contains 2 categories and 0 entries that you can access/download.
During the last 30 days, 0 entries have been added [what's new] and there have been 0 hits [what's hot].
Since your last visit, 0 new entries have been added [view].

is there a way i can change what it says?

and in the main breadcrumb it says "Links and Downloads Database" i'd like to change that to just "Downloads" is this possible as well?I remember someone told me how to do it in the 3.0 version of this mod but the files are different in theis version so i can't find it.Thanks

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by bhxtyrant

Thanks Andrew.got some more questions now that i have this mod and vB3.5 up and running.Near the top of the main page of LDM it has this text.

is there a way i can change what it says?

Yes. That particular text is built in the links_introbit template, which you can edit as you wish. If you want to refer to the particular statistics that are displayed, these are built from three phrases, ll_recent, ll_lastvisit and ll_visible, which you can edit. The code that actually constructs this text is function get_ldm_summary at line 802 in local_links_include.php. Easiest is probably to edit the template.

Originally Posted by bhxtyrant

and in the main breadcrumb it says "Links and Downloads Database" i'd like to change that to just "Downloads" is this possible as well?I remember someone told me how to do it in the 3.0 version of this mod but the files are different in theis version so i can't find it.Thanks

Go to the links admin page/settings. Look for the setting database_name and enter whatever text you want to appear in the breadcrumb.

[dpkm]

Suggestion for improvement: change all php tags from <? to <?php

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by dpkm

Suggestion for improvement: change all php tags from <? to <?php

A huge task - will sweat blood for many hours. Thanks - consider it done.