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.

[EasyTarget]

cool setup kira, I like how you changed it.

speaking of, andrew you should get some ss from a few of the people with nice looking boards to add to the hack information. It might help some people realize what its all about and how powerful it is.

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

If you set the *can_play_musicbox* permission but unset the *can_save_musicbox* permission for usergroup (LDM/admin/permissions), then both the icon and the title become urls to the jukebox.

Currently, this is an all or nothing setting - it applies to all musicbox entries in all categories. It is easy enough to make available on a a per-category basis, if this has any value to you.

definitely useful!! that would be great if you could throw that in the next versoin.

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

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.

I'm still getting this problem.

other users have complained about it too. For me, seems to happen most often with MP3s. But sometimes happens with other files too. movin the file around on my harddrive before uploading didn't do anything.

http://www.clantsu.org/forums/local_links.php
to test it if you want.

I'll give ya admin (pm-ing you now)

[obmob]

Oh, my, this is becoming the most versatile mod for vB... thanks Andrew.

[MissKalunji]

Originally Posted by obmob

Oh, my, this is becoming the most versatile mod for vB... thanks Andrew.

i second that i dont know how come it wasnt hack of the month :surprised:

[obmob]

Maybe it had a slow start... maybe for vB 3.6! ^^

But no beta, please! XD

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by obmob

Maybe it had a slow start... maybe for vB 3.6! ^^

But no beta, please! XD

Unfortunately, there will have to be a beta for VB36. There are some sigificant changes in the 'plumbing' of VBulletin itself, and we will need to check that everything is working correctly.

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

Originally Posted by obmob

Oh, my, this is becoming the most versatile mod for vB... thanks Andrew.

what do you mean "becoming"?

this IS the most versative mod for vb.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by GrendelKhan{TSU

what do you mean "becoming"?

this IS the most versative mod for vb.

How nice to have friends and allies...

[Zia]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Unfortunately, there will have to be a beta for VB36. There are some sigificant changes in the 'plumbing' of VBulletin itself, and we will need to check that everything is working correctly.

hi AndrewD,
Do u have any idea to integrate LDM with vBux ? User can downlaod by paying points (points that earned by posting) ?

And Mass file importer from the ftp ?

it would be really nice for all of us .

Thnx.