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]

LDM pulls it's permissions per category via your forum permissions. If you never set those accordingly, then you end up in the situation you're in now where anyone can see anything.

[MissKalunji]

Ok i understand got it!

Thanks

next question lol is there a way to add more text to where it says

Allowances: 0 files/1 used, 0 Mbytes/ 0 MBytes used

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by MissKalunji

Ok i understand got it!

Thanks

next question lol is there a way to add more text to where it says

Allowances: 0 files/1 used, 0 Mbytes/ 0 MBytes used

That line is constructed from several phrases and a template

The phrases are ll_band_bytesuse, ll_band_filesuse and ll_band_consume. They are pulled together in the template links_bandwidthbit. So you can try editing the phrases or the template

[civil78]

I have a problem in the Links and Download Manager when i change my server into a new one.

When i click into the links it says
"Sorry - link is not currently available"

But the structure works fine except the Last Files list that it don’t work correctly.

I don't know what's going wrong, but I think that if I reset all the properties in default, the problem will be corrected.

How can i set all the properties of the LDM into default?

Thanks

[civil78]

I found the solution, sorry for that. It was finally a problem into the security system of my server, and of course it's not a problem of the LDM.

Thanks anyway.

[MissKalunji]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

That line is constructed from several phrases and a template

The phrases are ll_band_bytesuse, ll_band_filesuse and ll_band_consume. They are pulled together in the template links_bandwidthbit. So you can try editing the phrases or the template

Thanks!!

[Ian Emu-UK]

Just got round to updating the LDM on my site for the first time since I requested an auto prune feature, is it possible to make it prune only from a certain category as well as by usergroup?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Ian Emu-UK

Just got round to updating the LDM on my site for the first time since I requested an auto prune feature, is it possible to make it prune only from a certain category as well as by usergroup?

See the attached.

[Zia]

Originally Posted by |oR|Greg

No mass import, but we've asked.

massimport would be a real good feature..

what abt integration with vbux?
pay earned point (earned by posting) for each download..??

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Zia

massimport would be a real good feature..

what abt integration with vbux?
pay earned point (earned by posting) for each download..??

The framework is there to achieve this - I have provided a 'hook' at the relevant place in the code, so someone who's familiar with vbux should be able to oblige.