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.

[lexx27]

Congratulations for this great code.

I only have two problems:

1. I uploaded a zip file successfully. Then I tried to upload an mp3 file and the browser redirected after a minute to a blank page (http://www.akrovates.com/forums/local_links.php).

2. When I link an mp3, the code adds automatically a thumbnail...

The mimetype is right, and I searched for about an hour this thread.

[lexx27]

I have news. The problem exists with firefox. IE can upload mp3s.

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

check my post above. its silly...but see if it works for you.

[sydude]

Originally Posted by obmob

Hmm... well, i think this is waht you want. Columns with vertical alignment to TOP. :bunny:

Thank you. That did the trick for the thumbnail picture on the left, but it didn't work with the right column, the one with all the controls (what do we call that thingie anyway?). It was supposed to, right?

S

[testing2]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

This surprises me, as the front page uses the same code as the rest. Couple of suggestions
- try setting LDM/admin *show_hit_parade* to zero
- try loading one of the inner pages in LDM directly from a clean browser launch (e.g. point your browser at http://yoursite/local_links.php?catid=1). Is this slow - in other words, is it the first page that is slow or the home page?
- edit your VB includes/config.php and add the following line:

$config['Misc']['debug'] = true;

at the bottom. This adds debugging code to VB, and you will get a timer/database hit record at the bottom of each page, with an 'Explain' link. On your LDM home page, click on 'Explain', and it will tell you where the time is being spent. (On my test board, the home page requires 15 database lookups and 0.1 seconds.)

Send me a PM with your findings and we can try to get to the bottom of this.

Thank you for your help! I changed the LDM_hit_parade to 0 and the page load time went from 17.5 seconds to 0.145 seconds!

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by sydude

Thank you. That did the trick for the thumbnail picture on the left, but it didn't work with the right column, the one with all the controls (what do we call that thingie anyway?). It was supposed to, right?

S

About 30 lines into the linkbit, there are these two lines:

PHP Code:

<td width="5">&nbsp;</td>
<td width="30%"> 


Put an alignment tag into the second td:

PHP Code:

<td width="5">&nbsp;</td>
<td width="30%" valign="top"> 


[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by lexx27

I have news. The problem exists with firefox. IE can upload mp3s.

There's something deeper going on, and we need to get to the bottom of it. I'd appreciate any reports of blank screens, plus details of attempts to resolve.

With the site that first flagged this problem, attempts to add a new entry to LDM which involves an upload results in a blank screen, with nothing added. It happens (as far as I can tell) with all filetypes, and with both IE and Firefox. However, uploads do work correctly, for example, if I take an existing entry and edit it to replace an existing link with an upload. Furthermore the Jukebox screen is also blank.

Each of these cases works fine on my test system, using identical commands and an identical release, so there must be something in the site configuration that's triggering this.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by testing2

Thank you for your help! I changed the LDM_hit_parade to 0 and the page load time went from 17.5 seconds to 0.145 seconds!

OK, I'll take a look at the code

[lexx27]

Another thing I noticed is that a file had 30 downloads yesterday (webalizer report), and only 2 hits inside the manager???

[lexx27]

2. When I link an mp3, the code adds automatically a thumbnail...

The mimetype is right, and I searched for about an hour this thread.

do you know anything about this