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.

[Dream]

can i just upload everything and install the product or am i required to go thru the installation.txt and edit files

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by Dream

can i just upload everything and install the product or am i required to go thru the installation.txt and edit files

You might want to check the instructions file out as the files get uploaded to different directories.

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Are you running this on a board that you have upgraded from VB3.0? I had a similar problem at first, because my board also included edits to some of the standard VB templates (header, for example). Suggest you take a look at the main VB admin page -> Styles and Templates -> Find Updated Templates. You may need to 'revert' some of the standard templates, because they've changed the way they handle drop downs.

If you're running this on a clean new VB3.5 install, I can't reproduce it.

It only happens when I set the links as a forum with the link in it. I notice none of the drop downs (in the nabvar or links) work when I first go into it. I checked the find updated templates and there were none listed. Strange.

EDIT: Found the problem. I have the links db mod as the link for my forum but I had it opening up in a new wondow instead of the way it is by default. I took the target part out of it and the drop downs work fine now.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Dream

can i just upload everything and install the product or am i required to go thru the installation.txt and edit files

It's explained at the start of the instructions file:

Five php files to upload using FTP, two into your main forums directory, three into the includes directory
Then you use the main VB admin CP to upload and run the xml product installer, which loads templates, plugins and phrases and runs the install/upgrade code

No code changes are needed.

[Boofo]

I think I found something else here. Sorry.

If you have links in one category and you move them to another category, when you set the display order, it defaults back to one when you view it in the new category. You have to reset the display order after you move it. Shouldn't that be set as you edit it to move it?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Boofo

I think I found something else here. Sorry.

If you have links in one category and you move them to another category, when you set the display order, it defaults back to one when you view it in the new category. You have to reset the display order after you move it. Shouldn't that be set as you edit it to move it?

You're right - will check this evening.

Thanks

[Boofo]

Now that's what I call service! Was there a smile with that?

Let me know what you find out and thank you, sir.

I'm having a blast with this Mod!

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Now that's what I call service! Was there a smile with that?

Let me know what you find out and thank you, sir.

I'm having a blast with this Mod!

A big smile Actually there was a rather subtle bug lurking in the code, which you helped me find. Just upload the revised local_links.php - no need to rerun the installed. Let me know if if's ok.

[Boofo]

That did the trick! Working fine now. Thank you, sir.

I have to know, what was the subtle bug?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Boofo

That did the trick! Working fine now. Thank you, sir.

I have to know, what was the subtle bug?

In earlier versions, suppose you had put a link into more than one category and given it a new display order in all of these (e.g. 2). If you then tried to change its display order again but in only one of its categories (e.g. to 3), all the rest would be reset to 1. Rather an obscure situation, but it took me a little while to work out what was happening.