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.

[Tyegurl]

3.5.4 and vbadvanced 2.1.0

i have never had a problem with this b4

i upgraded to the most current one

now i get all sorts of problems....come to think of it i didn't have vbadvance on here b4....

my add link is all messed up

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: param_upload() in /home/content/T/y/e/Tyegurl/html/vBulletin/local_links.php on line 608

okay i reallize that vbadvance likes full urls so is this my problem and where do i correct and with what lol



and this is line 608

	param_upload($maxupload, $mimetypes, $space_used, $space_max);

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

hmmm.....

future suggestion:

need to make so you can exclude Featured Site from appearing in categories (of choice)....it can be confusing or sometimes...just not appropriate to appear.

[shiva]

here's a strange idea that occured to me...

If you remove the need to have a file/url/image uploaded, and just have a post, what you have is a very simple article system (with a good template done up for it).

Maybe a little checkbox to turn off the need for a file/url?

[Akagi]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Confirmed, this was a big in 2.1.2. It's nolw fixed.

i see...thanks for the confirmation! i supposed according to your post, if 2.1.6rc is proven to be free from problems, it'll be released as the next stable version when you come back from your trip? my question is, probably a stupid one. if i upgrade from 2.1.2 to the next stable version, i won't lose the current uploaded files right?

btw, thanks a lot for the help offered and the great hack! enjoy your trip!

[Darat]

Probably a stupid question but I've just upgraded to the 2.16RC from a 2.13 and when I try to add an image to a an entry it throws up this error:

Sorry - links to offsite downloads have been disabled. http://www.m.........web.jpg. Return

Which setting is this refering to?

[|oR|Greg]

Originally Posted by Tyegurl

3.5.4 and vbadvanced 2.1.0

i have never had a problem with this b4

i upgraded to the most current one

now i get all sorts of problems....come to think of it i didn't have vbadvance on here b4....

my add link is all messed up

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: param_upload() in /home/content/T/y/e/Tyegurl/html/vBulletin/local_links.php on line 608

okay i reallize that vbadvance likes full urls so is this my problem and where do i correct and with what lol



and this is line 608

	param_upload($maxupload, $mimetypes, $space_used, $space_max);

I had an issue when I upgraded, I re-uploaded the files, and re-ran the product, and it fixed them.

Originally Posted by Akagi

i see...thanks for the confirmation! i supposed according to your post, if 2.1.6rc is proven to be free from problems, it'll be released as the next stable version when you come back from your trip? my question is, probably a stupid one. if i upgrade from 2.1.2 to the next stable version, i won't lose the current uploaded files right?

btw, thanks a lot for the help offered and the great hack! enjoy your trip!

I upgraded from 2.1.0 and lost nothing.

Originally Posted by Darat

Probably a stupid question but I've just upgraded to the 2.16RC from a 2.13 and when I try to add an image to a an entry it throws up this error:



Which setting is this refering to?

AdminCP>Links and Downloads>Settings>Security and User Access Controls>

allow_remote_downloads
Allow off-site downloads

[steadicamop]

I haven't checked through this thread, so this may already have been brought up:

Someone submitted a link to my site, and it always fails checking, and shows as broken, but the link does work fine - the only way around getting it to work correctly was to go in to the database and manually change it from a zero to a one.

Is this just an isolated issue or something pretty usual?

Great hack, thanks so much

Jason

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Tyegurl

3.5.4 and vbadvanced 2.1.0

i have never had a problem with this b4

i upgraded to the most current one

now i get all sorts of problems....come to think of it i didn't have vbadvance on here b4....

my add link is all messed up

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: param_upload() in /home/content/T/y/e/Tyegurl/html/vBulletin/local_links.php on line 608

okay i reallize that vbadvance likes full urls so is this my problem and where do i correct and with what lol



and this is line 608

	param_upload($maxupload, $mimetypes, $space_used, $space_max);

The fatal call to param_upload is the give away. You have not uploaded all the code - specifically, you have not uploaded the new local_links_include.php, as the param_upload routine changed name between some of the recent releases.

Just upload all the code, rerun the product installer (probably best to tell it to uninstall then to install) and you should be ok.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by steadicamop

I haven't checked through this thread, so this may already have been brought up:

Someone submitted a link to my site, and it always fails checking, and shows as broken, but the link does work fine - the only way around getting it to work correctly was to go in to the database and manually change it from a zero to a one.

Is this just an isolated issue or something pretty usual?

Great hack, thanks so much

Jason

There are some urls that do work fine but do not respond to LDM's validation check. This is because the site has blocked the use of the piece of code that is used to validate the link. Sometimes, if you use the cURL interface rather than the fopen() interface, it works better - if you don't understand this, then perhaps not worth trying, but if you do understand, then check to see if your php installation includes the curl library.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by shiva

here's a strange idea that occured to me...

If you remove the need to have a file/url/image uploaded, and just have a post, what you have is a very simple article system (with a good template done up for it).

Maybe a little checkbox to turn off the need for a file/url?

Aha - there already is one - ldm/admin/settings/allow_null_links