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.

[MissKalunji]

/me clicks vote

Thats a hard battle tho

[|oR|Greg]

My favorite part is the "links_linkbit_greg" I'm spehshul!

[dodjer42]

Hey all, this part of the install is a little murky:

Run the Product Management System (VB admincp: Plugin System/Manage Products). Select Add/Import Product.

Does that mean running <server>/forums/local_links_admin.php

When I connect to that on my site (with a functioning vb setup) I get the error

There seems to have been a problem with the Official TouchBuddy Forum database.
Please try again by clicking the Refresh button in your web browser.

An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, whom you can also contact if the problem persists.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

Any advice? I'd like to vote for this app as well, but something just aint happening.

[dodjer42]

Ok sorry, figured it out but I have a new question relating to uploads.

I get this error on upload:
"Upload error - unable to create a user subdirectory on server. Return". I searched this forum thread and saw some mention of CHMOD for the downloads/uploads directory. Checked that and it seems fine.

I have the following settings:

local_file_root=yes
Directory Prefix=/home/username/public_html/forums/
Uploads Dir = ./downloads/

Actual PWD response from shell: /home/username/public_html/forums

From /home/username/public_html/forums: ls -la
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 7 20:44 downloads/


root@blah [/home/username/public_html/forums]# ps -ef | grep httpd
root 15820 1 0 20:23 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd

[efil]

Hi.
suddenly the sorting is not working.

can any one help?

[dodjer42]

I found that if I CHMOD 777 on my uploads directory that I could upload, but this is a big security risk. I guess I know its a permissions error at least

[dodjer42]

How about adding an EDIT button on the submitted link page? Right now I am hunting how to edit the link description, and it would be intuitive if EDIT was available as with usual VB forum posts.

[Tyegurl]

click on the pencil

[AndrewD]

Been away for a few days - all questions seem to be answered?

[Langly]

I'm using LDM v2.1.6 and want to upgrade. All I have to do is overwrite the files on my server with LDM v2.2.2b2 files and input the product-eirma_ldm.xml having it overwrite the previous files?

Will this change any of my settings or permissions I have now?

Cheers