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.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by kadafi_alive

Hi Andrew,

is it possible to copy the exact link (jukebox) for the icons to the 'jump' link?

What I have tried is by changing

// Launch embedded media player

if ($this_action == "play" ) {..

to
if ($this_action == "play" or "jump" ) {

in local_links.php

it does work however, the javascript noscroll, size etc won't take effect.

Regards

The noscroll, etc, is applied when the window is created from an <a> tag which has an 'onclick' attribute onclick="ldmpopup(this.href);return false;". If you want to extend the behaviour to other windows, then you need to modify the <a> tags to include this attribute.

[kadafi_alive]

Hi Andrew,

Could you please tell me what I part I have to put in. I have tried adding the link but it gives me errors.

In local_links_include.php i find:
$linktypebit .= '<a href="'.$LINKS_SCRIPT.'.php?action=play&amp;id='.$ linkid.'" target="player" onclick="ldmpopup(this.href);return false;">';
$linktypebit .= '<img border="0" src="'.$icon_cache[$urlType].'" alt="'.$vbphrase['ll_playme'].'" />';
$linktypebit .= '</a>';

how do I insert the jump code.

Thanks in advance

[Tradjick]

*Installed 2.1.0 on 3.5.1 all is fine, thank you.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by kadafi_alive

Hi Andrew,

Could you please tell me what I part I have to put in. I have tried adding the link but it gives me errors.

In local_links_include.php i find:
$linktypebit .= '<a href="'.$LINKS_SCRIPT.'.php?action=play&amp;id='.$ linkid.'" target="player" onclick="ldmpopup(this.href);return false;">';
$linktypebit .= '<img border="0" src="'.$icon_cache[$urlType].'" alt="'.$vbphrase['ll_playme'].'" />';
$linktypebit .= '</a>';

how do I insert the jump code. Thanks in advance

I think I misunderstood your question. Am I right, you *only* want to have url's that display the 'action=play' link, and you do not want to have any 'action=jump' links? In this case, edit the links_linkbit template (or the links_linkbit_table template, if you use that layout for links). Find the two lines which read

$linktypebit
$linkurljump

and change these to read

$linktypebit
<a href="$LINKS_SCRIPT.php?action=play&id=$linkid" target="player" onclick="ldmpopup(this.href);return false;">$linkname</a>

If I'm not understanding your question, perhaps you can send me a PM to explain.

[kadafi_alive]

That did the work!

Much thanks!

[JoeBiscuit]

OK. I really want to get this working on my site because I love the functionality and the layout. I have uploaded two videos to it so far. One is 11 mb and the other is 89 mb. I can download the 11 mb fine. It just takes a while until I get prompted to download it. However, with the 89 mb file, it will hang until I get an internal server error. Does anyone know what the issue may be? Thanks in advance.

Here is the 11 mb file:http://www.synergysanctum.com/forums...ks.php?catid=5
Here is the 89 mb file: http://www.synergysanctum.com/forums...ks.php?catid=3

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by JoeBiscuit

OK. I really want to get this working on my site because I love the functionality and the layout. I have uploaded two videos to it so far. One is 11 mb and the other is 89 mb. I can download the 11 mb fine. It just takes a while until I get prompted to download it. However, with the 89 mb file, it will hang until I get an internal server error. Does anyone know what the issue may be? Thanks in advance.

Here is the 11 mb file:http://www.synergysanctum.com/forums...ks.php?catid=5
Here is the 89 mb file: http://www.synergysanctum.com/forums...ks.php?catid=3

You are almost certainly using up all the cpu time that your server grants to php scripts. Typically, this is 30 seconds, and is set in your php.ini file. Take a look in the 'instructions.txt' file - section "Speed versus Security and Server Load"

[JoeBiscuit]

Andrew, a few words. You are THE man! Thank you!

[Slave]

Brilliant AndrewD .. .. You've outdone yourself with this release ..

The only thing I've noticed is the "database_name" setting (thanks for fixing it in the admin pages btw) ..

The description says that it should default to "Links and Downloads Manager" but it seems to default to "Links and Downloads Database" ..

That's all I can find at the mo

[Slave]

Just noticed something ..

If you send a link to someone via the "Send to a Friend" option, they get the mail and click on the link .. this will open up the My Links page with the one link showing and the description.

If, however, you've got it set so that guests only get to see the wording of the link and not the link itself (option "protected_link" set as 0) the My Links page comes up blank apart from the "No entries match the criteria you entered" dialogue ..

Should this not show the link as they would of seen it browsing the cats (ie the wording and not linked) .. with, perhaps, a "To access this link you need to register" type dialogue beneath it?

Thinking about it .. it would quite nice to have this sort of dialogue at the top of the link lists on every page if "protected_link" is set at 0 ..