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.

[Zia]

helo...

does it support "mass import" ?

any chance to integtae it with Vbux?

[|oR|Greg]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

It's not clear to me what you are trying to achieve.

Do you want the existence of the private entries to be visible to the restricted usergroups or not?

If not, when would this error message be triggered?

You can easily make a category visible to everyone but only have certain of its entries visible

You can also easily make the category and all its entries visible but trigger an error message when a user tries to access those which are resticted.

or

You can make the category itself invisible to general users.

Yup, I just realized that too, duh, you can set each item to a forum and only the usergroups that have access to that forum will see it.

As for an ERROR, using the protected_links variable gives you 3 choices, no link, a registration dialogue, or... uhhh something else, but I don't think it was an error.

[|oR|Greg]

Originally Posted by Zia

helo...

does it support "mass import" ?

any chance to integtae it with Vbux?

No mass import, but we've asked.

[MissKalunji]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

It's not clear to me what you are trying to achieve.

Do you want the existence of the private entries to be visible to the restricted usergroups or not?

If not, when would this error message be triggered?

You can easily make a category visible to everyone but only have certain of its entries visible

You can also easily make the category and all its entries visible but trigger an error message when a user tries to access those which are resticted.

or

You can make the category itself invisible to general users.

What i was trying to say was.....Lets say Newbies i block access to them i dont want them to be able to see the Download section at all! example you click and it gives you the permission error....

I dont want them to be able to see no title no categories nothing.......

[|oR|Greg]

But do you have multiple user groups 1 for newbies and 1 for non-newbies? If not, and "newbie" is just a new Registered User, verus a more experienced Registered user, then this won't work. If they're in different user groups, then you can set your main access level according to a minimum usergroup they need to be in, then set the permissions accordingly to the Registered user group.

[MissKalunji]

*chineese* yeah i have a newbie group....

[|oR|Greg]

Under Settings... default_forumid

Set that to your NON-newbie group.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by |oR|Greg

Under Settings... default_forumid

Set that to your NON-newbie group.

Not quite!!!

Create or choose a forum which is blocked to your newbie group but open to your non-newbie group.

Set default_forum to the id of that forum (if necessary, hover the mouse over the forum listing to see what its id number is).

[|oR|Greg]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Not quite!!!

Create or choose a forum which is blocked to your newbie group but open to your non-newbie group.

Set default_forum to the id of that forum (if necessary, hover the mouse over the forum listing to see what its id number is).

That's what I said... but I said it in the "short form". :banana:

[MissKalunji]

But i dont have any of these set to forum :-/

why would i need a forum

* even more lost now *