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.

[ab420]

I apologize if this has been answered anywhere else, I've been reading for hours between this thread and the homepage of LDM. I am using it only for videos on my site right now, and it's working great, except for one small thing:

whenever someone watches a video in the jukebox, it logs them out of the forum, so they have to login everytime they watch a video, because I have permissions set to only allow members to watch the videos. This is obviously pretty annoying for my members, does anyone know how I can fix this? Did I do something wrong?

I also just noticed, it doesn't happen with Firefox, just IE...

[ab420]

Ok, so this is strange...

I went into the settings, and changed the open_local_links_newwindow and open_remote_links_newwindow to NO. I thought that was referring to the jukebox popping up in a new window, but apparently not, because it still pops up in a new window, but it doesn't log me out anymore, so this solved my problem. Hopefully this will be helpful to someone! BTW, LOVE this mod!

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by ab420

Ok, so this is strange...

I went into the settings, and changed the open_local_links_newwindow and open_remote_links_newwindow to NO. I thought that was referring to the jukebox popping up in a new window, but apparently not, because it still pops up in a new window, but it doesn't log me out anymore, so this solved my problem. Hopefully this will be helpful to someone! BTW, LOVE this mod!

No, the Jukebox always opens in a new window. The setting determines whether regular links (e.g. if you point to www.bbc.com) opens in the same window or a new window.

[ab420]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

No, the Jukebox always opens in a new window. The setting determines whether regular links (e.g. if you point to www.bbc.com) opens in the same window or a new window.

Yes, I'm not sure what was going on earlier, I'm guessing it was something to do with my browser, not this hack, because I turned those settings back, and everything is fine now, so it must've been an issue with my computer. Thanks!

[obmob]

Here i go again... excuse me Andrew, any chances to allow admin to post html in image description?

I have a postcard software called vCard, i can direct link some images to send them as a postcard... so, i want to add a different sized image and point it to that program...

Also, i have a mobile feature, and also need to point it to it to allow members to send it to their mobile phones...

So, maybe adding html permission would make it easier to you

Thank you for the big effort you make!

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

Any ideas on this?

Originally Posted by GrendelKhan{TSU

apparently not. :/ only issue so far is that the media icon doesn't show up in the CMPS module. I "updated images" in the CMPS installer...but still no go. the file path is correct too. any ideas? >> www.clantsu.org (left column)

or should I be taking that up with vbadvanced (though they are terrible at dealing with mod issues, ime).

[elsupremo]

Hey Andrew,
On my site most of my downloads are wmv files. I want to start adding .mov files. All my entries and categories are Open default permissions. However, only Admins can download the new .mov file. Registered members and unregistereds cannot access it, both of whom I would like to allow to download.

How can I fix this?

Thank you

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

Originally Posted by elsupremo

Hey Andrew,
On my site most of my downloads are wmv files. I want to start adding .mov files. All my entries and categories are Open default permissions. However, only Admins can download the new .mov file. Registered members and unregistereds cannot access it, both of whom I would like to allow to download.

How can I fix this?

Thank you

hmm.. you sure its just not your permissions setting?

LDM >> administer >> Change general usergroup permissions (add, edit, delete, etc)

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by GrendelKhan{TSU

Any ideas on this?



or should I be taking that up with vbadvanced (though they are terrible at dealing with mod issues, ime).

According to the html that I'm seeing, your left column is trying to find the icons "images/mediaicons/mp3.gif", "images/mediaicons/zip.gif", etc., which is correct provided the code is running in the forums directory.

However, it seems that your VBA is running in the top level directory, so it fails to find the images, and displays the tag string instead (mp3, zip).

An immediate fix is to copy (not move) the contents of /forums/images/mediaicons into a new directory /images/mediaicons. I'll fix the code before the next release.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by elsupremo

Hey Andrew,
On my site most of my downloads are wmv files. I want to start adding .mov files. All my entries and categories are Open default permissions. However, only Admins can download the new .mov file. Registered members and unregistereds cannot access it, both of whom I would like to allow to download.

How can I fix this?

Thank you

Off the top of my head, I don't recall that there are any different permissions checks for different file types. Are you sure that you have not 'associated' your .movs with a forum that is locked to non-admins?

What error message is displayed?