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.

[civil78]

I have a little problem. I go from the vbulletin admin panel into the log file of the statistics of Links and Downloads Manager.

In the table that appears in log of the last downloads, the 1st column that have the URL of the download doesn?t show the complete link. For example show in the image.



Please if anyone knows where I can change the code of the template of this table. Can I make it to show the complete link in two lines?

P.S. This isn't a problem of the weight of my screen. Between the 1st col and 2nd col the table have a lot of blank space.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by civil78

I have a little problem. I go from the vbulletin admin panel into the log file of the statistics of Links and Downloads Manager.

In the table that appears in log of the last downloads, the 1st column that have the URL of the download doesn?t show the complete link. For example show in the image.



Please if anyone knows where I can change the code of the template of this table. Can I make it to show the complete link in two lines?

P.S. This isn't a problem of the weight of my screen. Between the 1st col and 2nd col the table have a lot of blank space.

Yes, this was deliberate. It's an easy change to the code in local_links_admin.php. Go to the line which reads

iif(strlen($myrow['linkurl'])<=48,$myrow['linkurl'],substr($myrow['linkurl'],0,45).'...').'

and simply change this to read

$myrow['linkurl']

[sinoeu]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

I'll put this on the list (actually, it's quite a long standing request), but I can't guarantee to do it very quickly. I know that there are several VB hacks around for handling points - is there any particular interface that people use most/prefer?

Seems that the eBux is the most popular in vbb 3.5 now, and i think it can be a priority in your development of LDM to have a hook for the function of point systems - So with the point system the LDM can increase the active members of a furom.

[TosaInu]

Very nice extension.

Is it possible to direct the upload to another server (site)? Is it possible to monitor a folder on another site? We have the forum and thus LDM at site 1, and the files at site 2 (different servers, different domain).

[Langly]

I was moving my vbulletin to a different host and I installed LDM as normal and then I uploaded the LDM SQL files from my old host to my new host since I have 2000 downloads all with pictures and stuff. When I try to download one of my files I keep getting this error now:

Error - Cannot determine if you can access link: linkid,forumid= 1662, 32767

I have the permissions set right so whats the problem? Any ideas how to fix this?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Langly

I was moving my vbulletin to a different host and I installed LDM as normal and then I uploaded the LDM SQL files from my old host to my new host since I have 2000 downloads all with pictures and stuff. When I try to download one of my files I keep getting this error now:

Error - Cannot determine if you can access link: linkid,forumid= 1662, 32767

I have the permissions set right so whats the problem? Any ideas how to fix this?

Yes, on your first board, you applied forum permissions and your new board can't find a forum with the same forumid (maybe you recreated your forums?). Go into LDM/Admin/Categories/mass edit to mass change the forum associations

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by TosaInu

Very nice extension.

Is it possible to direct the upload to another server (site)? Is it possible to monitor a folder on another site? We have the forum and thus LDM at site 1, and the files at site 2 (different servers, different domain).

You can certainly link to files on another server. You cannot use LDM to upload to the other server - I imagine that would be considered a security breach. Monitoring folders on another site is not currently available but I don't think this would be difficulty to add.

[TosaInu]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

You can certainly link to files on another server. You cannot use LDM to upload to the other server - I imagine that would be considered a security breach. Monitoring folders on another site is not currently available but I don't think this would be difficulty to add.

Hello AndrewD,

I got it basically running now phew. It looked like a tough nut to crack for me. Your documentation is helpful, but something basic was wrong on the testboard (still had the production board home url set).

It would indeed be a security breach if you uploaded to just a foreign server, and that isn't possible afaik. But it should be possible to install a tiny helper PHP script on the remote server. The LDM makes contact with the helper PHP file when something has to be uploaded to the remote server. Another way to say/look at/implement is to have a 'link' inside LDM to a full remote uploader. Just dirty inserting a link is something even I may pull off, but making it neat and a part of LDM requires a coder.

I once had some sort of PHP FTP script. It was part of a tool running on my PC to FTP files to a server. Different thing, but makes ideas.

Both the forum and the file server are ours and can run PHP/SQL.

Monitoring remote folders will be great. It's very helpful to add all those ancient files at once.

Is it possible to schedule one or more monitorings? We have some community wide play by e-mail campaign and people use a directory to upload zip/rar saved games. It would be neat if a tool scanned that directory a few times a day to insert new links.

[pcoskat]

Nifty.

Can I set this up so members (or nonmembers) have to pay to post in the link directory?

[Bhuwan]

SEOf feature doesnt work for me