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.

[calgdsm]

Originally Posted by calgdsm

How does one change that?? Thats the problem i am having.

Anyone know this??

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by efil

It was working until the few last days , now when I want to sort , I get always the same position.
You can test yourself :
http://www.televizia.net/vb/local_links.php?catid=5

The sort by is in the left of the screen.
You can test it and see that nothing change.

Thanks in advance,
Efil.

From the look of your screens, I think you have given every entry a different value for "display_order". This over-rides the sort order, and forces entries to be shown in increasing display_order. The purpose of this setting is to let you force some entries together, then some others, etc. Entries which have the same value for display_order are sorted according to the selection you make.

If this is the case, the quickest/easiest way to correct it is with a simple SQL command on your database. Something like the following:

UPDATE local_linksltoc SET displayorder = '1'

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by calgdsm

How does one change that?? Thats the problem i am having.

These parameters are set in the php.ini file on your web site. You need to edit that file and then restart apache/whatever web server you are running. If you do not have this level of access, you may have to ask your service provider to make the changes.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by lovevn

I remember that there is an option for us to let LDM find and up date or files are up loaded by ftp.

I can not file this options in version 2.2.1

LDM/admin/categories/scan

In the next release (almost fully tested) there will be the possibility to set categories to 'autosynchronise' with specified directories. This works recursively, so you can automatically create a category structure which matches a directory structure and stays up to date..

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Langly

I have a usergroup with permission to view a forum, post to a forum, can add links in LDM, allowed to upload in LDM but when they go to and file catagory, they don't get the option to Upload Files. All my other user groups have no problem and they get this option. Any ideas?

Thanks

Not offhand. If you send me a pm with your site details + an admin username/pwd, I'm happy to take a look.

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

ok. beta3 up! great stuff...
lots of comments and few (v. minor) issues...

want me to email em, pm or is posting em ok?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by GrendelKhan{TSU

ok. beta3 up! great stuff...
lots of comments and few (v. minor) issues...

want me to email em, pm or is posting em ok?

PM them - I haven't released the code to others, so let's not add more to this thread

[efil]

From the look of your screens, I think you have given every entry a different value for "display_order". This over-rides the sort order, and forces entries to be shown in increasing display_order. The purpose of this setting is to let you force some entries together, then some others, etc. Entries which have the same value for display_order are sorted according to the selection you make.

If this is the case, the quickest/easiest way to correct it is with a simple SQL command on your database. Something like the following:

UPDATE local_linksltoc SET displayorder = '1'

Thank you very much!
That was the problem, Now it's working fine.

Efil.

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

PM them - I haven't released the code to others, so let's not add more to this thread

done!

though I suspect I'm gunna need to have to screenshot ya up or something. its tough explain some stuff with text. :/

anyway...great stuff!!

[dodjer42]

Curious, I am trying to find out where and how different user groups have been assigned different upload allowances. I have my PHP values set to 12M, but registered users are only getting 2M.

Any ideas?