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.

[Langly]

Is there a way to link the amount of files (downloads) in the mini-stats on vbportal?

[EasyTarget]

in the admincp when I click on permissions it goes to the category edit.. even though the link at the bottom says set=permissions.

Also, even though I have all the permissions set to yes, I don't have a way to edit existing links, unless the way to edit has changed?

[Langly]

Three things:

1. Where do you set the "Hits" counter to activate? All my downloads show up as 0 downloads.

2. Where can I add the amount of times of file has been downloaded? I'm converting from Postnuke downloads to this and have to add all 700+ files manually, well, the file descriptions and thumbnails at least.

3. Is there a way to add a disclaimer page that when someone clicks a file or link to download that this page pops up and if they click on agree then it continues to download. if they click disagree then it brings them back to the previous page?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by EasyTarget

in the admincp when I click on permissions it goes to the category edit.. even though the link at the bottom says set=permissions.

Also, even though I have all the permissions set to yes, I don't have a way to edit existing links, unless the way to edit has changed?

You're running 2.1.2? The edit command has moved into the pencil icon in the right hand side box of the linkbit

[EasyTarget]

yeah, 2.1.2.. thanks

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Langly

Three things:

1. Where do you set the "Hits" counter to activate? All my downloads show up as 0 downloads.

It should work automatically - I'm surprised

Originally Posted by Langly

2. Where can I add the amount of times of file has been downloaded? I'm converting from Postnuke downloads to this and have to add all 700+ files manually, well, the file descriptions and thumbnails at least.

The linkhits column in the linkslink table.

Originally Posted by Langly

3. Is there a way to add a disclaimer page that when someone clicks a file or link to download that this page pops up and if they click on agree then it continues to download. if they click disagree then it brings them back to the previous page?

Not as it's coded at the moment, but this would be quite easy to add

[FROGGYJ]

Not sure if anyone has noticed this....but if I go the the downloads area and stream an mp3 listed it works great. Then I close the window and try to let's say go to the forum index, it logs me out. Is there something I'm missing to keep the user logged in?

using VB 3.5.1 with LDM 2.1.2

[Langly]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Not as it's coded at the moment, but this would be quite easy to add

Is it possible you could add this feature to the next release or perhaps tell me how to do this and I could install it?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by FROGGYJ

Not sure if anyone has noticed this....but if I go the the downloads area and stream an mp3 listed it works great. Then I close the window and try to let's say go to the forum index, it logs me out. Is there something I'm missing to keep the user logged in?

using VB 3.5.1 with LDM 2.1.2

Not sure - I registered on your site and tried it and I stayed logged on.

One thought - the LDM code does not handle session ids, which I think are used by VBulletin as an alternative way of tracking users who do not enable cookies in their browser - it's a hassle which I had not thought necessary.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Langly

Is it possible you could add this feature to the next release or perhaps tell me how to do this and I could install it?

Will add it to the list.