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]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

You're way ahead of me (or maybe the other way round) - I've been working on this - fixing the closed category bug and the extra templates so that code changes aren't needed in order to achieve your template layout.

The closed category bug was rather tricky, as there is an intrinsic error in Internet Explorer and some confusion in the other browsers.

A couple of days and we'll be there...

I guess the million dollar question is how is it possible to do a layout change without a code change? I guess we'll all find out soon, I look forward to it. Beyond that your latest release is working great on my site.

[|oR|Greg]

Hrm, I think I found another bug, but I'm not 100% sure. My FAQ is pre-populated with what looks like LDM code in it?
I know for a fact that it WAS working prior to the latest upgrade.

This is what's in my FAQ search box by default:

 SELECT link.linkid AS linkid, link.linkname AS linkname, link.linkdoi AS linkdoi, link.linkuserid AS linkuserid, link.linkusername AS linkusername, link.linkurl AS linkurl, link.linkimg AS linkimg,  link.linkimgthumb AS linkimgthumb, link.linkforum AS linkforum, link.linkdesc AS linkdesc, link.numrate AS numrate, link.totrate AS totrate, link.linkhits AS linkhits, link.linksize AS linksize, link.linkstatus AS linkstatus,  link.linkdate AS linkdate, link.linkmoderate AS linkmoderate, ltoc.catid AS linkcatid, ltoc.displayorder AS linkdorder FROM local_linkslink AS link LEFT JOIN local_linksltoc AS ltoc ON link.linkid = ltoc.linkid WHERE link.linkmoderate = 0  ORDER BY linkdate DESC

http://www.limmac.org/vb/faq.php

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by |oR|Greg

Hrm, I think I found another bug, but I'm not 100% sure. My FAQ is pre-populated with what looks like LDM code in it?
I know for a fact that it WAS working prior to the latest upgrade.

Mine shows normal with an empty search box. But I installed it on a fresh vbulletin.

Looks like you might have something else not playing nice with this.

[|oR|Greg]

I figured it out, it's the left bar I have on every page, because I'm using vBAdvanced with the LDM Module, for some reason it's dumping that string into the search box. I turned the LDM Module off, reloaded the faq.php and viola, no more LDM code in the search box.

Hrm... how to fix that?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by |oR|Greg

I figured it out, it's the left bar I have on every page, because I'm using vBAdvanced with the LDM Module, for some reason it's dumping that string into the search box. I turned the LDM Module off, reloaded the faq.php and viola, no more LDM code in the search box.

Hrm... how to fix that?

Almost certainly the problem is that another vbadvanced module is using a variable that has already been set to this query. I'll bet that it is $q.

Try editing the LDM vba module(s) ldm_hot or ldm_new, and add the following line at the end (immediately after the eval statement)

$q = "";

Let me know, so that I can fix this in the next release.

[|oR|Greg]

eval('$home[$mods[\'modid\']][\'content\'] .= "' . fetch_template('adv_portal_custom_ldm_new') . '";');
$q = "";
?>

I added that q line to ldm_new.php and it worked! Andrew is the best.

http://www.limmac.org/vb/faq.php

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

hey andrew!

haven't updated to 2.2 yet (will do this week), but for some reason all New Threads (post to forum plugin) created with new uploads keep showing up as "moderated".

I've been searching FOREVER, looked everywhere, but I can't find the option to turn that off and as far as I can tell... all the permissions are correctly set. ie: shouldn't have to be moderated.

any hints as to what I'm missing? Its gotta be a setting SOMEWHERE.

[|oR|Greg]

The forum they're going to must be moderated, no?

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

Originally Posted by |oR|Greg

The forum they're going to must be moderated, no?

nope. that's the first thing I checked.

[|oR|Greg]

So, the added link appears, the thread is generated, but the thread is moderated and awaiting release from a moderator?

Is "moderate_links" turned on in LDM?