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.

[DJ XtAzY]

hey how do i allow someone to submits a link without extension, like url's rapidshare downloads... i have limited space on my server and have all my users to use rapidshare to store like psd or huge graphic files. I want to allow those type of links but the extension is only limited to the one configured in the admin area.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by XtAzY

hey how do i allow someone to submits a link without extension, like url's rapidshare downloads... i have limited space on my server and have all my users to use rapidshare to store like psd or huge graphic files. I want to allow those type of links but the extension is only limited to the one configured in the admin area.

Currently, this is not handled in LDM. It requires another setting on the admin page. I will add this to the list of things to do.

[hugo]

Excelent extension, this is exactly what i was looking for.

Just one request:

Has anyone translate this excelent extension into spansih language?

Thank you in advanced for your help.

Greeting from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

*Clicks Install

[TundraSoul]

Looks good, no problems here.

Here's a suggestion. Can you change the When submitted date format to read mm/dd/yyyy instead of dd/mm/yyyy or just use whatever date format vB is using so everyone will be happy.

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Here is the second beta for 2.0.7. It fixes/adds the main points discussed in the last two days.

I hope there are no serious bugs - I'm going away this weekend and will be pretty busy for three weeks.

[DJ XtAzY]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Currently, this is not handled in LDM. It requires another setting on the admin page. I will add this to the list of things to do.

woot thanks XD

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by hugo

Has anyone translate this excelent extension into spansih language?

Not as far as I know! - Would you like to volunteer? :tired:

Originally Posted by hugo

Greeting from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

And from Paris, France

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by TundraSoul

Can you change the When submitted date format to read mm/dd/yyyy instead of dd/mm/yyyy or just use whatever date format vB is using so everyone will be happy.

Everyone will never be happy! You foreigners - you keep wanting to change the world... Months before days, next thing, tea will be made from little paper bags.

*Edited* - I assume that you want the entry box for 'When Submitted' to follow the site's settings - the dates listed in the linkbits already do.

[hugo]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Not as far as I know! - Would you like to volunteer? :tired:

I will try to do it, but i?m newbie with vB, and a little slow... :ermm:

I don?t promess anything.. :nervous:

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by hugo

I will try to do it, but i?m newbie with vB, and a little slow... :ermm:

I don?t promess anything.. :nervous:

A start is always helpful - perhaps there are others around who can assist? - here is the English phrase set for the *final* 2.0.7 release (not yet loaded).

[AndrewD]

The entry post in this thread now contains the release candidate version of LDM 2.0.7.

Main changes since the second beta:

+ Category selector included within main displays
+ Searches default to looking for the string as entered (rather than the individual keywords)
+ Admin can restrict upload filetypes beyond the list given in the VB attachment table
+ New linkbit template included, enabling two-stage viewing of links
= bugs fixed
> Import uses current datestamp (rather than 1/1/1970!)
> Linkbits have anchors so that link edits/inserts return user to the right place on the screen
> Various security checks added for uploaded images
> Data entry for 'When Submitted' reflects site's date/time settings

When I return from a rather long business trip, 2.0.7 will become the official release, provided no serious bugs have been found. *No further changes in functionality will be made in 2.0.7* - anything else will now wait until the next revision. Reports welcome, as always. Thanks for all the feedback.