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]

But have you setup a category in LDM yet?

[odln018]

Yep, have one category. I'll try to set another.

[odln018]

Originally Posted by odln018

Yep, have one category. I'll try to set another.

That's odd, I defined a new category and the "Link" button popped up, my apologies for the firedrill

*** Update ***

I've got a few questions - Naturally.

1) How would I go about adding in images/banners to category descriptions?
2) I placed the cpnav_xlinks.xml into my /forums/includes/xml directory, yet I do not see an option in the VB ACP to access it. What have I done wrong here?
3) How can I get rid of "Submitted by", Date, hits, size, display order when viewing entries?

[redlabour]

Hi,

thx for this fine Hack but :

After the Update from 2.1.5 to 2.2.0 it tells me that Softwareversion is 2.2.0 and Database is still 2.1.5 .

And sure i have overwritten the Productfile.

What can i do ?

For the Moment i have manually edited the 2.1.5 to 2.2.0 with phpMyAdmin at line "admin". That works but i think there is nothing at Database changed.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by redlabour

Hi,

thx for this fine Hack but :

After the Update from 2.1.5 to 2.2.0 it tells me that Softwareversion is 2.2.0 and Database is still 2.1.5 .

And sure i have overwritten the Productfile.

What can i do ?

For the Moment i have manually edited the 2.1.5 to 2.2.0 with phpMyAdmin at line "admin". That works but i think there is nothing at Database changed.

Easiest way to be sure is simply to tell the VB product installer to uninstall then reinstall. You won't lose anything.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by odln018

That's odd, I defined a new category and the "Link" button popped up, my apologies for the firedrill

No problem. Perhaps the coding is too clever for its own good.

Originally Posted by odln018

1) How would I go about adding in images/banners to category descriptions?

The easiest way to do this for banners is to use Vb codes e.g. the img code. For small icon images, you can try Edit Category/Display Settings/cat_icon and cat_icon_new

Originally Posted by odln018

2) I placed the cpnav_xlinks.xml into my /forums/includes/xml directory, yet I do not see an option in the VB ACP to access it. What have I done wrong here?

Usually the Links and Download group appears close to the top of the list in the left hand column of the ACP. Sometimes I've noticed that you need to close all browser windows completely and restart before VB picks up these xml files.

Originally Posted by odln018

3) How can I get rid of "Submitted by", Date, hits, size, display order when viewing entries?

You can get rid of several of these by changing the permissions (LDM/Admin/Permissions)

"Submitted by" - take away can_view_names permission
hits - take away can_view_hits permission
display order - take away can_set_display_order permission

For Date and size you would have to edit the template (VB/styles/style manager/edit templates) If you're using the standard layout (outer box with inner box on the right hand side, you would have to edit the links_linkbit template. As example, I attach a modified version of the links_linkbit template without the right nahd box.

[Boofo]

I am getting this error when I try to add an image that is jpg for the link. I have the size set at 100. Any ideas what might be causing this or what I might be doing wrong? I am using the latest version.

<br /><strong>Warning</strong>: imagejpeg(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in <strong>/local_resize.php</strong> on line <strong>62</strong><br /><br /><strong>Warning</strong>: imagedestroy(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in <strong>/local_resize.php</strong> on line <strong>63</strong><br />

[redlabour]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Easiest way to be sure is simply to tell the VB product installer to uninstall then reinstall. You won't lose anything.

Hi, seems working.

But it is normal that the german Translation is still very incomplete ?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by redlabour

Hi, seems working.

But it is normal that the german Translation is still very incomplete ?

I have a new German translation, very kindly completed a few days ago by dlutt, but I hadn't had a chance to upload it yet (am in the middle of a yet another business trip). It will be uploaded as a complete product xml file next weekend, when I'm back home. Or you can find his phrases file here

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Boofo

I am getting this error when I try to add an image that is jpg for the link. I have the size set at 100. Any ideas what might be causing this or what I might be doing wrong? I am using the latest version.

Is there a space character or some similar in the jpg's filename. I can see a bug in the code in this situation, although I can't get it to trigger your message.