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 Slave

A quick question ..

AndrewD, have you changed the style/colour of the background colour on some of the headings? .. on the default style it seems to be using the dark blue instead of the light blue which means the collapsible arrow image doesn't look right ..

Where would I need to go to change this back to the light blue colour?

Take a look in the links_main template. I think I changed from tcat to thead style

[Slave]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Take a look in the links_main template. I think I changed from tcat to thead style

Looks like there are a number of thead .. would I change them all?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Slave

Looks like there are a number of thead .. would I change them all?

If you want it to be consistent, yes, each is at the start of a table

[Slave]

Ok .. ta

[Akagi]

hi Andrew, how do i change the template of LDM such that I can display the file extension allowed for upload and their respective upload limit on the front menu of LDM? this is because the current system doesnt really indicate or tell the user whether whats the exact reason why the files are not uploaded (whether if they have exceeded the filesize limit or not).

thanks in advance

[Slave]

Bit of a head scratcher this ..

I'm trying to add the following link to LDM ..

http://www.peterboroughgreyhounds.com/

but when I do it shows [3 Kbytes] under the name within the links listings as if it's a file ..

I've added other links to LDM since upgrading to 2.1.5rc1 and not had this problem so not sure what's causing it. Any ideas?

[elsupremo]

Heh, Andrew, you can pretty much go ahead and ignore my last post.

On my site, I have a lot of unregistered people that download the files. Because I had them set in the permissions to be able to can_rate_link, I assumed they would be able to. I tested it myself this evening and realized that unregistereds are NOT able to rate the downloads on my site. That is, of course, the reason why I have not gotten the comments that I was hoping for.

Here is where I need help though - the download categories are all "open access". I have can_rate_link set to allow unregistered users to rate the downloads. However, it still stops them and tries to make them register instead. Is this a bug, or is there another setting I need to change?

Thank you!

[Slave]

btw AndrewD .. don't forget to change this threads Prefix to "Major Addition"

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Slave

Bit of a head scratcher this ..

I'm trying to add the following link to LDM ..

http://www.peterboroughgreyhounds.com/

but when I do it shows [3 Kbytes] under the name within the links listings as if it's a file ..

I've added other links to LDM since upgrading to 2.1.5rc1 and not had this problem so not sure what's causing it. Any ideas?

A simple and silly bug. Will be fixed - the 3k is the number of html characters on the site's homepage

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Akagi

hi Andrew, how do i change the template of LDM such that I can display the file extension allowed for upload and their respective upload limit on the front menu of LDM? this is because the current system doesnt really indicate or tell the user whether whats the exact reason why the files are not uploaded (whether if they have exceeded the filesize limit or not).

thanks in advance

I'll take a look at this at the weekend and improve the display in the final release of 2.1.5