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.

[hydn]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

I've not seen this problem before, but a quick google search suggests that part of your MySQL installation is corrupt. (The *.ibd file is part of the file structure used to hold the table data.)

It seems that to fix this, you will need to delete and recreate the linksadmin table. If you can delete it, the LDM installation script will automatically recreate it - simply uninstall and reinstall the product. (You will not lose the rest of your LDM data). But actually deleting the table can be difficult when this error occurs - see e.g. http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?22,...2933#msg-52933

Got the database restore. But I can now confirm after w week of testing that that this app crashing IIS running PHP in ISAPI mode:

(W3SVC) A process serving application pool 'DefaultAppPool' terminated unexpectedly. The process id was '664'. The process exit code was '0xc0000005'.

once I password the download php file that no one can access it never crashes. We just moved from running php.exe to running php4isapi.dll MUCH FASTER!

This plugin is a core part of our site. Any idea why it causes the error above?

Andrew if you PM or email me i'll give you accrss to our server.

[lexx27]

I am using the feed but no one recognizes it. I think the problem is the extension. It should not be .php but .xml

Is there a way to fix it?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by lexx27

I am using the feed but no one recognizes it. I think the problem is the extension. It should not be .php but .xml

Is there a way to fix it?

I'm sorry - you'll have to remind me which feed you are talking about?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by hydn

Got the database restore. But I can now confirm after w week of testing that that this app crashing IIS running PHP in ISAPI mode:

(W3SVC) A process serving application pool 'DefaultAppPool' terminated unexpectedly. The process id was '664'. The process exit code was '0xc0000005'.

once I password the download php file that no one can access it never crashes. We just moved from running php.exe to running php4isapi.dll MUCH FASTER!

This plugin is a core part of our site. Any idea why it causes the error above?

Andrew if you PM or email me i'll give you accrss to our server.

I'm happy to take a look, but I'm not sure what I will be able to find out. When you say "this app is crashing IIS running PHP in ISAPI mode", it may be a bug in LDM itself, or in the particular version of PHP you are using, or in IIS, or in the actual actions that your user community is performing with LDM, etc. Do you have any specific information that might help?

php.net have, apparently, a spate of bug reports about php's (in)stability with IIS, and they're having difficulties finding out the problem. See for example, http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=37483, which includes discussion up to 22nd July.

There are, also, MS related fixes: e.g. see http://www.iis-resources.com/modules...d=4367&forum=5

[lexx27]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

I'm sorry - you'll have to remind me which feed you are talking about?

8.6 External feeds

Preliminary code is provided in /release/extras/xml-external to drive an XML feed from your LDM database. Take a look at the code to see what is available.

This is the feed im talking about.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by lexx27

This is the feed im talking about.

OK, I'll take a look - I haven't checked this for some time.

[lexx27]

Thank You

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by lexx27

Thank You

The feed script still works, but I realise that I have not provided much explanation of how to use it. I will try to give you some examples during the weekend, and include these in the final release for VB36.

[q8-star]

Attached is an arabic translation as far as I could do so far .

[efil]

Hi,
suddenly i have this problem when i try to upload an image:

Warning: fopen(/Ldm_Images/49561154767932.jpg): failed to open stream: Permission denied in \includes\local_links_resize.php on line 166

efil.