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 Langly

Does anyone know how to make the download page (when someone clicks to download a file) bring up another page with google ads or adbrite ads etc. on them like rapidshare.com and megaupload.com do?

The ability to 'pass through' another page will be in the next release and you can patch the template that's used in the pass through to display whatever you want.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Akagi

is this system integrated with either uCash or eBux?

No, sorry

[Fusion.nl]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Yes, this is an easy module for the vbadvanced plugin. Will you be happy with total traffic, etc, in the last 30 days? The information you want comes from a table that keep track of people's accesses to LDM - and the admin is able to prune that table to keep it small, so I'd recommend a time limit

Sweet, thnx for the answer.

[Bhuwan]

Thanks for the all the replies AndrewD! This hack is really sweeeeeeeet :-).

How did a member get those stats (total downloaded, etc.) I am running a beta version and cant seem to find it

[Bhuwan]

I think tis MAY or MAY not be a bug in the beta:
Featured sites are shown no matter what the user permissions are -- I would think that if a user has no permission to view any of the links, then the featured sites shoudln't show either (although , when they try and click on any link, it says permission denied).

[|oR|Greg]

Make sure you have protected_link set to 0 in permissions.

[Bhuwan]

Originally Posted by |oR|Greg

Make sure you have protected_link set to 0 in permissions.

It is set that way -- nothing showson the page EXCEPT for the featured sites -- it seems to be msising permission checking if you ask me.

[|oR|Greg]

This hack is amazing. Better then ecDownloads by far and away, I would just like one thing different, have the ability to add more then 1 image to a download, a variable set to allow a certain amount per. Otherwise, I have no complaints, or changes, you've thought of just about everything I could want, thanks so much!

[|oR|Greg]

Is featured sites a category you created?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by |oR|Greg

Is featured sites a category you created?

Featured sites (in the latest betas) are taken from the 'favourites' of a selected user. On the admin/settings page, you specify which user and how many of his/her favourites to display as featured sites.