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.

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

Originally Posted by 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?

sounds like your isp.
upload limits in the end are determined by your ISP. default for most isps is 2mb.

you have to check with them and see if you get access to your php.ini and can increase your upload allowances.

once that is done you can adjust LDM accordingly.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by 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?

Take a look at the follows:

- your php settings post_max_size and upload_max_filesize

- the apache setting LimitRequestBody

- the VBulletin attachments table, which sets maximum sizes per filetype

If LDM is giving admins the full 12M, the problem is in the limits set in the VBulletin table. If admins also are limited to 2M, then you've got a conflict somewhere in your php values or perhaps with apache

[lovevn]

The "play" botton in my LDM does not work. Where can I turn this function on? I have set the right file type for music box!

Thanks

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by lovevn

The "play" botton in my LDM does not work. Where can I turn this function on? I have set the right file type for music box!

Thanks

Several things to check:

a) Is there an entry for mp3, etc, in the VB attachments table (VB/admincp/attachments/extensions and sizes). You need to provide an entry for each filetype that can be played, including the mimetype information (e.g. for mp3: Content-type: audio/mpeg)

b) LDM permissions -> can_play_musicbox Enable this permission for usergroups that should be able to access the embedded player.

c) is your PC running under Windows? I have included a test in the LDM code for this, as I have no way of testing the embedded players on Macs or Linux.

[lovevn]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Several things to check:

a) Is there an entry for mp3, etc, in the VB attachments table (VB/admincp/attachments/extensions and sizes). You need to provide an entry for each filetype that can be played, including the mimetype information (e.g. for mp3: Content-type: audio/mpeg)

b) LDM permissions -> can_play_musicbox Enable this permission for usergroups that should be able to access the embedded player.

c) is your PC running under Windows? I have included a test in the LDM code for this, as I have no way of testing the embedded players on Macs or Linux.

Thanks for your reply me at this and other questoin. I have solved the problem by adding image types for attachment talble.

By the ways, I have one more question.
I have stored both audio file and zip file in my LDM. I turn off the "off-site-download" function because I want to prevent people from download my audio files. Unfortunately, this stop people from download the zip file too. Is there anyways to let people download zip file but not audio file?

Thanks

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by lovevn

Thanks for your reply me at this and other questoin. I have solved the problem by adding image types for attachment talble.

By the ways, I have one more question.
I have stored both audio file and zip file in my LDM. I turn off the "off-site-download" function because I want to prevent people from download my audio files. Unfortunately, this stop people from download the zip file too. Is there anyways to let people download zip file but not audio file?

Thanks

Turn on allow downloads but turn off can_save_musicbox

[redlabour]

Please use the Updatefunction next Time so that we get a Mail if a Update is released.

[Slave]

Hi AndrewD

One thing I've noticed using 2.2.1 (not upgraded to 3.6 just yet) and the "Latest Links" module for vBadvanced. When you click on a link it takes you to local_links.php and shows the details of the cat as well as the one link you clicked on. But there isn't an easy to click link to see all of the other links within the same cat ..

As a suggestion, maybe we could have a "See other links in this category .." type link at the end of the description of the link, like we do when a link is within more than one cat.

In fact, in playing with this it seems like it does show a "See also .." link if the link is in 2 or more cats. It just doesn't include the cat that you are viewing at the time, so perhaps just make sure that all of the cats the link is in are shown.

If you need to see an example I can provide links (as always )

Oh .. and I know you can just press on the "go" button of the Category jump menu, but that isn't clear to normal users and not everyone has it turned on

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Slave

Hi AndrewD

One thing I've noticed using 2.2.1 (not upgraded to 3.6 just yet) and the "Latest Links" module for vBadvanced. When you click on a link it takes you to local_links.php and shows the details of the cat as well as the one link you clicked on. But there isn't an easy to click link to see all of the other links within the same cat ..

As a suggestion, maybe we could have a "See other links in this category .." type link at the end of the description of the link, like we do when a link is within more than one cat.

In fact, in playing with this it seems like it does show a "See also .." link if the link is in 2 or more cats. It just doesn't include the cat that you are viewing at the time, so perhaps just make sure that all of the cats the link is in are shown.

If you need to see an example I can provide links (as always )

Oh .. and I know you can just press on the "go" button of the Category jump menu, but that isn't clear to normal users and not everyone has it turned on

No sooner suggested than done. In the next release, when a single item is displayed, the linkbit will include the full list of categories in which it appears.

[obmob]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

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..

Sounds great... :bunny: