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.

[Boofo]

I knew it! Here comes the hell storm now!

Thank you, sir. I think I'm still using version 2.05 so maybe it's time for the 'ol upgrade, what do you think?

[Dsyn11]

Andrew, thanks very much for taking your time and effort in helping me get my site working!

That was above and beyond the call of duty.

David

[Dsyn11]

in the main view, local_links.php why not display all the Categories?

Right now it just says:

# categories and # available entries
During the last 30 days:
? # new entries [what's new]
? # hits [what's hot]
# new entries [view] have been added since your last visit.

Not very interesting info for someone wanting to quickly get into the categories. Can you display the categories instead, like here:
forum.php

instead of :
local_links.php



...just some suggestions. thanks!

[robihot]

Hi Andrew.

What also would be nice to have:
-Possibility to change the owner (the person who adds the link) as Administrator.

Kind regards,
Robert

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by robihot

Hi Andrew.

What also would be nice to have:
-Possibility to change the owner (the person who adds the link) as Administrator.

Kind regards,
Robert

Yes, I think this is needed.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Dsyn11

in the main view, local_links.php why not display all the Categories?

Right now it just says:



Not very interesting info for someone wanting to quickly get into the categories. Can you display the categories instead, like here:
forum.php

instead of :
local_links.php



...just some suggestions. thanks!

Something's wrong with your display - it should be showing the categories exactly as you suggest. I'm too tired to understand why, but will take a look tomorrow morning.

[Dsyn11]

Excellent! Thank you once again Andrew for all your effort and help. Everything is looking great now!

[EasyTarget]

after a fresh install I found it difficult to figure out how to add a category. The Add category button/option didn't show up under categories ever until I clicked on the forum bit location for ldm. I doesn't show up in administer or moderate, so just a suggestion to help us newbies.. make it so the add category shows up on other pages as well

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by EasyTarget

after a fresh install I found it difficult to figure out how to add a category. The Add category button/option didn't show up under categories ever until I clicked on the forum bit location for ldm. I doesn't show up in administer or moderate, so just a suggestion to help us newbies.. make it so the add category shows up on other pages as well

Thanks - will take note.

[EasyTarget]

is it possible to have 2 instances of this hack on the same forum?

I'm wondering if that way I can have one forum act as a link to the normal links setup which I would use to link to other sites and then another forum act as a link to the short bit one which I could use for a files database.