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.

[puregraf]

which template do I go to if I want to edit the navigation bar for the links directory? Where it says : categories, show, search, add link.
I want to add images instead of links for those links.

thanks

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by puregraf

which template do I go to if I want to edit the navigation bar for the links directory? Where it says : categories, show, search, add link.
I want to add images instead of links for those links.


thanks

links_header

[puregraf]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

links_header

hey, i went in that template and searched for the Categories Show Search Add Link

where i can edit the text, but i could not find it? can you maybe help me out and post the code where I go to edit the ADD LINK so i can add a image button if possible, or make the font bigger?

because people have a hard time seeing that, its so small.

thanks allot

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by puregraf

hey, i went in that template and searched for the Categories Show Search Add Link

where i can edit the text, but i could not find it? can you maybe help me out and post the code where I go to edit the ADD LINK so i can add a image button if possible, or make the font bigger?

because people have a hard time seeing that, its so small.

thanks allot

This is the relevant part of the headre template for add link

<if condition="$links_permissions[can_add_link]">
	<td width="12%" class="vbmenu_control">
	<a href="$LINKS_SCRIPT.php?catid=<if condition="$viewcatid">$viewcatid<else />-1</if>">$vbphrase[ll_menu_addlink]</a>
	</td>
</if>

[Eagle Creek]

Where can I find screenshots?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Eagle Creek

Where can I find screenshots?

See the online help facilities at http://www.eirma.org/devel/LDM/index.html

[Eagle Creek]

Aah, now it's loading.

Last time I check page wasn't working.

I'll take a look.

Does it work with 3.6?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Eagle Creek

Aah, now it's loading.

Last time I check page wasn't working.

I'll take a look.

Does it work with 3.6?

See version 2.2.5 in the VB36 forums. It's currently in "Release Candidate" stage - there are a few reported bugs in the version that is on the forum. These have been fixed and will be uploaded in a few days when I've finished testing.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Marsupilami

Consider the following setup:

1. Forum URL = "www.teflon1.net/forum"
2. Homepage URL = "www.teflon2.net/"
3. thumbs_dir = "../thumbs/"

The URL to the thumbs shows up to be something like: "www.teflon2.net/../thumbs/63721154952051.jpg"

One cannot rely on the Homepage URL to point at the web root for the forum.
That must be found using proper PHP system variable.

Can this be solved?

Just to be clear on this:

a) In this situation, the LDM code uses an internal VB function construct_full_url() to produce a full url. That uses the value of $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] or similar, depending on server, to build the url.
b) The ../dir syntax is not valid for the thumbs_dir directory. (In fact, it is only valid in LDM for local_file_root_prefix and upload_dir and only when local_file_root is set to 1)
c) The strange problem - thumbnail displaying with Opera and not with IE - was probably not a browser issue. LDM creates different urls for the thumbnail, depending on whether it thinks it has cached the file or not. Before it has cached it, the url points to the thumbnail generator script.
d) You can always make this work (at least when I've uploaded a fix to someone else's problem...) by turning off thumbs_dir

[AndrewD]

I have uploaded what I hope is the official release 2.2.5 of LDM in the VB36 forums here. The same code works with both VB35 and VB36.

These are the fixes/changes between the RC and this version:

Add/Edit Link
Fields that are not available to user are not displayed
Protocols
Supports mms protocol
RSS2 feed
New 'extra' - old 'local_links_external' script withdrawn
User bandwidth/download allowances
New 'extras' which illustrate how to tie allowances to user reputation and to number of posts
Bugs fixed
- htmlspecialchars_uni used consistently, avoids messing up unicode fonts
- extra information added to admin info table to help debug
- Report of 'invalid email' when editing enties submitted by unregistered user
- No longer crashes when moderator accepts entry and email notification to user is turned on
- Additional tests within 'report link' and 'send to friend' to block spammers
- linkbit_short template fixed
- Product update no longer wipes out customised templates
- VB function cache_styles() copied into LDM because of problems on some sites

Partial translation into arabic provided in the development/phrases directory

If anyone experiences problems, please report them quickly!