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.

[|oR|Greg]

Bug: Auto-Create Thread Plugin...

Only works if I don't specify a category ID in the array() statement. If I specify categories it never works.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by |oR|Greg

Bug: Auto-Create Thread Plugin...

Only works if I don't specify a category ID in the array() statement. If I specify categories it never works.

Thanks, will investigate.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by |oR|Greg

Bug: Auto-Create Thread Plugin...

Only works if I don't specify a category ID in the array() statement. If I specify categories it never works.

I've tried this on my PC and it seems to work just fine.

Are you remembering to specify an associated forum when you add the entry?

[|oR|Greg]

Try it on my forums... add a link to the Video\Clips part of LDM, and specify it to post a thread to the Rides forum. It won't work. I have specified the necessary CATID in the ARRAY variable. Then if you take the CATID's out of the array, and make a new link in the same manner, it DOES work.

[Bhuwan]

I made a hack for LDM 2.1.6RC2 that makes the links more SEO friendly (category-name-here/lnk-name-here-id.html) ... i wil release it once this bad boy goes final

[shiva]

Yeah!

I will be all over this myself. I have a new server shortly, so busy getting ready, but expect a few questions as well, as I would like a way to display cat listings automatically (without certain bits) as a module on a news page for VBa

Nice work as always.

[Tyegurl]

can i ask a silly question??? ummmm how do i get the jukebox to work???

just noticed it was there and i don't quite understand....i didn't see anything in the directions on line about it.

just so you (just thought about it lol) i have searched the thread...i see what i need to do. I just don't understand....i see the jukebox image...but where does it show up?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Tyegurl

can i ask a silly question??? ummmm how do i get the jukebox to work???

just noticed it was there and i don't quite understand....i didn't see anything in the directions on line about it.

just so you (just thought about it lol) i have searched the thread...i see what i need to do. I just don't understand....i see the jukebox image...but where does it show up?

Section 4.6 of the on-line manual explains the Jukebox. As far as I know, it only works with users running Windows (I don't use Linux, etc, myself, so can't tell). It doesn't matter what the web server is running on.

You need to set some admin settings and permissions, and then the little filetype icon to the left of the entry name in the linkbit turns into a 'play me' icon for appropriate filetypes. Click this and a new window is launched, running an embedded Windows Media Player, RealPlayer or QuickTime player.

[LeeWicKeD]

Hi there,

i have a new forum and so i installed the new version of LDM (2.1.0) and when importing the product the following message occures:

Warnung: Wrong parameter count for php_uname() in /includes/local_links_init.php (Zeile 50)

Anybody knows something about this problem?

Thx
Lee


btw.: the code in local_links_init.php is

PHP Code:

48: // Buffer size used for fread()'s -
49: // On Windows-based servers, increase *substantially*
50: if (strcasecmp(substr(php_uname('s'),0,3),'win')==0) {
51:    define('READ_BUFFER', 256000);
52: } else {
53:    define('READ_BUFFER', 32000);
54: } 


[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by LeeWicKeD

Hi there,

i have a new forum and so i installed the new version of LDM (2.1.0) and when importing the product the following message occures:

Warnung: Wrong parameter count for php_uname() in /includes/local_links_init.php (Zeile 50)

Anybody knows something about this problem?

Thx
Lee


btw.: the code in local_links_init.php is

PHP Code:

48: // Buffer size used for fread()'s -
49: // On Windows-based servers, increase *substantially*
50: if (strcasecmp(substr(php_uname('s'),0,3),'win')==0) {
51:    define('READ_BUFFER', 256000);
52: } else {
53:    define('READ_BUFFER', 32000);
54: } 


Which version of php are you running? I see a message on php.net saying that version 4.1.2 returns this warning message (incorrectly). The solution is to put a '@' character immediately before php_uname, i.e. @php_uname('s')