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]

Does this also have the apostrophe fix?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Does this also have the apostrophe fix?

No, that requires a change to the code, which I need to think about.

[Boofo]

addslashes and stripslashes should do it.

[welo]

Installed/upgraded on RC2 and running nicely. Great job as always :up:. Am adding a slew of content to it and will take it public on my board shortly.

I notice your installer still insists on prefixing the links tables with local_, so rather than hack the code I finally relented and just changed my links_ prefixes to comply. No big deal but that local_ prefix still bugs me some. I know you did this to match your file prefixes but in the overall db schema it really doesn't make sense. Maybe I'll get used to it .

Regardless, thanks for providing this. I'm willing to declare it as one of the (if not the) best supported and developed hacks at vb.org.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by welo

Installed/upgraded on RC2 and running nicely. Great job as always :up:. Am adding a slew of content to it and will take it public on my board shortly.

I notice your installer still insists on prefixing the links tables with local_, so rather than hack the code I finally relented and just changed my links_ prefixes to comply. No big deal but that local_ prefix still bugs me some. I know you did this to match your file prefixes but in the overall db schema it really doesn't make sense. Maybe I'll get used to it .

Regardless, thanks for providing this. I'm willing to declare it as one of the (if not the) best supported and developed hacks at vb.org.

I appreciate your kind remarks, thanks.

Probably the table prefix does need rethinking, now that we have full product support in VB. Perhaps tables should use a product prefix (e.g. this one would be LDM). I want to keep this clearly separate from VB. What do you think?

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

I appreciate your kind remarks, thanks.

Probably the table prefix does need rethinking, now that we have full product support in VB. Perhaps tables should use a product prefix (e.g. this one would be LDM). I want to keep this clearly separate from VB. What do you think?

I think that would be a good idea as it would allow us to know which tables are vb tables and which tables have been added for a specific mod/hack.

[welo]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Perhaps tables should use a product prefix (e.g. this one would be LDM). I want to keep this clearly separate from VB. What do you think?

I agree product tables should be differentiated from those used by VB. I could live with an ldm_ table prefix. However, your code is already setup to allow for user-defined prefixes. I just get kinda stumped that it never asks me what mine are during the upgrade process.

Regardless, I realize this is a nitpickery db-geek thing that has nothing to do with the functionality of your script. Out of close to 300 people having installed the VB 3.0.X version I seem to be the only one having an issue with it . I just like my database to make as much sense as possible, is all.

[lttcoder]

Upgrade doesnt work from 2.0.2->> 2.0.3

Critical error: different versions of software, templates, phrases and database.
Software: 2.0.3 database: 2.0.2
Cannot continue - ask administrator to correct.

[lttcoder]

I uninstalled the old one and clean installed the new.
It works fine, I like the little box at the bottom telling my settings
Links and Downloads Database
Code 2.0.3
MySQL 4.1.13a-Debian_1-log
PHP 4.3.10
allow_url_fopen No
cURL Yes
GD2 Yes
open_basedir

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by lttcoder

I uninstalled the old one and clean installed the new.
It works fine, I like the little box at the bottom telling my settings
Links and Downloads Database
Code 2.0.3
MySQL 4.1.13a-Debian_1-log
PHP 4.3.10
allow_url_fopen No
cURL Yes
GD2 Yes
open_basedir

OK, seems to work fine - not sure what went wrong with the upgrade - ran fine for me.

I added a remote file download - worked ok - removed it again from your d/b