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 civil78

AndrewD thank's for this usefull information, but somethink else can you tell me if I can hide some files from the "New Links" in the main page, not from the users, just in main page. For example if i add a new file in the "2nd Category", i dont want to show it in the "New Links" Module in the main page. See the pictures to understand what i mean.

"New Links" Before


"New Links" After



Thanks
civil78
http://www.greektvsubs.gr/cmps_index.php

P.S. Can I install this Mod, two times, my problem exactly is that I have a translation team management site for TV series, so I need to show in the "New Links" only the Greek Translated subs and at the 2nd category the English Subs only for the translators and I dont want to show this subs in the "New Links", but also I want to show the free for traslation English subs for the new users without to belong in a team, your platfrom is great but I have to solve this problem.

This will be a simple modification to the vbadvanced LDM module. Let me think about it

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by GTAce

I can't figure this out either - how exactly did you find you way around this?

When I got to Admininster > Categories, this is what I see



any ideas?

Administer/Categories gives you an overview of your entire category structure, which since you haven't created anything looks like your picture.

To create categories, select Category/Home Category from the main LDM toolbar. Then, select Category/Add category. In the current version, the Add category menu item only appears when you are *outside* the admin page. I will change this in the next version, as several of you have found it confusing.

[Benj]

had a go at the flash player doesnt seem to work for me ..... andrew was wondering if you could add an option for media file to be streamed. maybe an option like

play media files :-

• in jukebox
• as stream

maybe using a m3u file or something

[GTAce]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

To create categories, select Category/Home Category from the main LDM toolbar. Then, select Category/Add category. In the current version, the Add category menu item only appears when you are *outside* the admin page. I will change this in the next version, as several of you have found it confusing.

Ooh, I see...I wasn't outside the admin page originally, that's why I couldn't see it. Thanks for clearing that up, Andrew - and you're right, it probably would hurt to change that for the next version,

[TundraSoul]

2.1.0, working well, no problems, 1,754 links.

[Boofo]

Andrew, since I only use this for links, am I able to turn the jukebox and download and upload stuff off so it is never seen or used by the public? I just want to make sure before I upgrade to this from 2.0.5, sir.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Andrew, since I only use this for links, am I able to turn the jukebox and download and upload stuff off so it is never seen or used by the public? I just want to make sure before I upgrade to this from 2.0.5, sir.

Uploads - are turned on/off on the LDM admin settings page
Jukebox - turned off per usergroup on the LDM admin permissions page

generally, other things are as before, so I can't see you will have any problems hiding things from your public.

[Nam]

Andrew, I'm not sure if you have thought about this feature, the multiple files in one download.

Say I have a movie that divided into part 1 through 10, instead of making 10 files in 10 seperate links, it is possible to put then in 1 link with multiple lines? This would make the file look a lot more clean and organized for people who have a lot of files to download.

If it's too much then I can just use the sub-category, I hope LDM supports unlimited tree under it.

Also, when I tried to scan the directory and choose "select" as option, it show on the description as: trawled during scan of /images/Album/. This show the path of the location and therefore easy to leech. Is there anyway to add those files without any description at all? I don't want to click edit 138 times just to delete that line. Thanks Andrew.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Nam

Andrew, I'm not sure if you have thought about this feature, the multiple files in one download.

Say I have a movie that divided into part 1 through 10, instead of making 10 files in 10 seperate links, it is possible to put then in 1 link with multiple lines? This would make the file look a lot more clean and organized for people who have a lot of files to download.

Will think about this - probably the easist way is to have an additional template.

Originally Posted by Nam

I hope LDM supports unlimited tree under it.

Yes, it does.

Originally Posted by Nam

Also, when I tried to scan the directory and choose "select" as option, it show on the description as: trawled during scan of /images/Album/. This show the path of the location and therefore easy to leech. Is there anyway to add those files without any description at all? I don't want to click edit 138 times just to delete that line. Thanks Andrew.

Yes - just edit the links_scantext template - by default it reads

$file[name] trawled during scan of $file[dir]

- you can change it how you want. Note that the template is applied *when* the directory is scanned, not when the linkbit is displayed, so you need to make this change before doing a lot of imports.

[Benj]

any feed back on the stream idea?