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.

[CSS59]

I love you AndrewD! This is the best hack EVER upgrade took me 2 minutes!

[MikeGK]

Oh My GOD! ..I love you AndrewD!!! This is like a dream come true. I've been waiting this HTTP 206 Partial Download controls for a long time. You are amazing!! two thumps up ..GREAT WORK ANDREWD!

[Langly]

When you go to Statistics and the first section, Administration, that has the buttons "GO"; are they not supposed to do anything when clicked on? Mine just sit there and nothing happens.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Langly

When you go to Statistics and the first section, Administration, that has the buttons "GO"; are they not supposed to do anything when clicked on? Mine just sit there and nothing happens.

Interesting :squareeyed: They work fine with Firefox and Opera, but you are right - they do not seem to work with Internet Explorer. Thanks.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by MikeGK

Oh My GOD! ..I love you AndrewD!!! This is like a dream come true. I've been waiting this HTTP 206 Partial Download controls for a long time. You are amazing!! two thumps up ..GREAT WORK ANDREWD!

Mike, just to be clear - the current implementation handles HTTP 206's when the file is being served off your own file system, i.e. when the link is identified using a local pathname rather than a full url. It does not (yet) work if the file is coming from another server - is this important?

[testpig]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Interesting :squareeyed: They work fine with Firefox and Opera, but you are right - they do not seem to work with Internet Explorer. Thanks.

Hi Andrew.
Just upgraded and its another nice piece of work Seamlessly integrated with the original version. The thumbnail problem I had is gone....basically all is good other than the buttons which dont work (as mentioned above).

[welo]

As always, an excellent upgrade to an excellent hack, Andrew :up:

One minor thing though - and it really is minor. I notice when you are linking specifically to a page on another site (somesite.com/product.html), LDM automatically assumes you are linking directly to a download file and inserts the little IE icon on the links index.

Would be a convenient little add-in to use a radio button set or something to denote whether the page you are linking to is an actual page rather than a file for download, and adjust that icon accordingly.

[MikeGK]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Mike, just to be clear - the current implementation handles HTTP 206's when the file is being served off your own file system, i.e. when the link is identified using a local pathname rather than a full url. It does not (yet) work if the file is coming from another server - is this important?

yes AndrewD, it would be a bonus to have it support from another server..thank you

Mike

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by welo

As always, an excellent upgrade to an excellent hack, Andrew :up:

One minor thing though - and it really is minor. I notice when you are linking specifically to a page on another site (somesite.com/product.html), LDM automatically assumes you are linking directly to a download file and inserts the little IE icon on the links index.

Would be a convenient little add-in to use a radio button set or something to denote whether the page you are linking to is an actual page rather than a file for download, and adjust that icon accordingly.

The way it works is to compare the file type with the list of icons in the /icons directory. There's an html.gif and an htm.gif in that directory. Since these will never be downloads, you/I might just as well get rid of the two icons.

[Ophelia]

Is there a way to add material to the page that requests them to accept/deny the terms? I want to include graphics buttons w/ code (like toplist code) on this page. Or is there a way to load the footer on this page? That would fix the issue as well.