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 benj

any feed back on the stream idea?

I'm not sure what you want, exactly - the jukebox is taking a stream from the server, and the alternative (the regular link mechanism) will launch real player, winamp, etc, with an m3u file.

Can you explain a little more?

[EasyTarget]

[high]* EasyTarget signs the petition for multi-file support
[/high]

[Benj]

sorry andrew..... i would like for example a link which when clicked plays in real player winamp etc but is leech protected so people cant right click and save it.... primarily then (because my LDM will be only mp3) i would like to be able to get a user favorites into a single m3u hence making a kinda radio station...

i was hoping to do this with flash hence the request for xml files etc..... but im told by flash gurus that theres not much point because flash would need to at least preload some of the whole playlist... which could take ages with a large playlist

hope that makes things a bit more clearer.....

cheers

benj

o yeah... why are you not taking donations..... are you rich or bored or both ;

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

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.

Thank you, sir.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by benj

are you rich or bored or both ;

Completely jaded with life, surrounded by thousands of slaves who answer to my every whim. (Dream on...)

[Benj]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Completely jaded with life, surrounded by thousands of slaves who answer to my every whim. (Dream on...)

that explains it

[Slave]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Completely jaded with life, surrounded by thousands of slaves who answer to my every whim. (Dream on...)

Well .. one Slave .. not sure about every whim mind ..

[BiReL41r]

Is this hack able members to add their own hack or is this strictly for admins to add links for their affiliates...

[Nam]

Thanks Andrew, for helping me with the questions.

I like the Jukebox idea, I don't mind letting people to download as long as the files' location are hidden, which they are.

But I still can't get jukebox to work, when clicking on audio files such as mp3, wma, I'd like the embeded window media in the browser instead of open windown media in window like it is right now (clicking on the link will pop up a embemded window media would be fine too). I'm not sure if LDM already had it and I didn't know how to make it work or it doesn't work that way, if you can give some more clarification that'd be great.

[Benj]

Originally Posted by BiReL41r

Is this hack able members to add their own hack or is this strictly for admins to add links for their affiliates...

anyone can add links / download depending on the permissions you set