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.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by directprint

Can anyone tell me what the style is for the backgound behind link and icons.



Here is a link to my new style, but parts of it don't work well with LDM
http://www.vpba.com.au/forum/local_links.php?catid=3

legend

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by directprint

You add extensions via Admin Control Panel > Attachments > Extensions & Sizes , then you just hit the button Add New Attachement Type.

Keep in mind that to be sure that the new filetype behaves correctly when it's downloaded, you may need to provide the "mimetype" information in VB/admincp/file types.

Yo can find mimetype information all over the internet, e.g. at http://www.utoronto.ca/ian/books/xht.../mimetype.html

Yo specify it in VB using a string like (for jpg)
Content-type: image/jpeg

[directprint]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

legend

Thanks, you are a legend....

Do you know what the text is for the links?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by directprint

Thanks, you are a legend....

Do you know what the text is for the links?

The same, surely? If I edit the font element of the legend css, the text changes size

[directprint]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

The same, surely? If I edit the font element of the legend css, the text changes size

You are so right, thanks for that, I must be having my silly pills today.

Have you every thought about the category icons (folder icon) images being changable between categories, I would think this could be just another entry in the Display settings for the particular category. It this a possability?

[Akagi]

Andrew, thanks for the fast response! I've managed to get the featured sites part working huge thanks!

and also, really glad that you'll consider my suggestions way to go!

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by directprint

You are so right, thanks for that, I must be having my silly pills today.

Have you every thought about the category icons (folder icon) images being changable between categories, I would think this could be just another entry in the Display settings for the particular category. It this a possability?

Isn't this already there? It's the cat_icon, cat_icon_new and subcat_icon in Edit category/Display settings

[directprint]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Isn't this already there? It's the cat_icon, cat_icon_new and subcat_icon in Edit category/Display settings

thanks, sorry I missed that option, didn't realise it was already there.

[zooki]

Quick Question before i decide whether to install or not,

Is it possible to mass Upload like 30 files to the server to a specific folder?? or are the files each uploaded one at a time?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by zooki

Quick Question before i decide whether to install or not,

Is it possible to mass Upload like 30 files to the server to a specific folder?? or are the files each uploaded one at a time?

If you use an FTP client, you can mass upload as many files as you want, and LDM can then scan the directory and mass insert them into one of its categories. You can also rescan that directory later and add only the files that are new/omitted the previous times.

LDM itself handles uploads one at a time. There is a request to extend it to behavesthe way VB behave (e.g. a variable number of uploads) but I need to see how/if this can be achieved in a sensible way.