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]

2.0.6 is sweet from what i can see cheers for that andrew few questions tho.. my mp3's still dont play in the player ive enabled the player (any suggestions) also i back the bandwidth option that is cool..

theres only one suggestion ( well really a request) i have and that is a whats hot section & whats new section for every category would this be possible or ?


cheers loads andrew

benj

[Vtec44]

Okay, what do I do with this error?? I got this after installing 2.0.6 over my existing 2.0.5 version.

"Critical error: different versions of software, templates, phrases and database.
Software: 2.0.6 database: 2.0.5
Cannot continue - ask administrator to correct."

I can't get to LDM AdminCP either I can manually edit the .php file and lower the version number, but don't want to screw up.

[EasyTarget]

I haven't dug into this yet, but maybe one small thing to add could be to the sort by: feature and make it so people can sort by ratings. Then maybe the ratings would also be a bit more important/encouraged.

[Dez_U]

Man, this was just what I was looking for from my refrigeration site.

Thank you very much for a very very very very good product.

[EasyTarget]

for some reasons the rating *'s don't usually appear for me, and when they do its usually just the 2 ** selection and/or the 5 ***** selection.

[BeasTboyz]

1.) I am wondering if anyone knows why the downloads using this script would be limited to only 20KBps roughly? Any idea how to fix that (I'm guessing its in my php settings or something?

My PHP info: http://www.observedtrials.net/info.php


2.) I'm guessing upload_maxspace is set in bytes, but I figure it probably can't hurt to change:
upload_maxspace
Total filespace available for use by uploads; 0: no limit

to:

upload_maxspace
Total filespace (bytes) available for use by uploads; 0: no limit

Anyhow, just a suggestion .


3.) How about user selectable permissions for users that are allowed to upload files?

For instance, we set permissions based on forum permissions, how about a table where we would make our own name up, like "subscribed users", "regular users", "anonymous" users and set the permissions for these new groups (based on forum permissions), then the uploading users can just check off who they want it to be available for. This way they don't get confused by our forum permissions stuff. Hopefully you understand what I mean here.

4.) How about making it so users can only upload under certain categories. I see this entire upload feature being more useful for sharing the link on the forum than people actually using the downloads database, I don't want them to be able to mess with my categories.

5.) Did you set the max filesize to 200,000 bytes? If so, how can I change that?

I think those are all my suggestions/questions, but I wanted to say thanks again, because I've been a user since 1.22 and its been absolutely wonderful for me .

Matt

[EasyTarget]

I'd like to choose between the links setup, where you click on a category and see a list of live links and a downloads setup, where you click on a category and you see a list of files (with the description and/or thumbnail) but clicking on a file name brings you to a new page for that file.

So something like this if it makes sense.

Category
-Sub-Category of links
-->live link
-->live link
-->live link
-Sub-Category of files
-->file description
--->file page + live download link
-->file description
--->file page + live download link

[Benj]

ok i found out how to make the player work my fault cheers...

[Vtec44]

Benj, how did you get it to work?

[Benj]

man you need to suppy a path to your post icons in the settings something like "images/misc" well thats mine anyway then a little winamp symbol comes up next to your mp3 links and when you click on that it'll play in the jukebox