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.

[zooki]

i uploaded files and trawled them, it says "trawled during scan of /files/Video" for description, how can i have it not say that next time??

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by zooki

how do i change the title, on the main page it says> "Links and Downloads Manager" i want to rename this.. thanks

LDM/Admin/Settings/Database Name

Give it whatever name you want.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by zooki

i uploaded files and trawled them, it says "trawled during scan of /files/Video" for description, how can i have it not say that next time??

Either edit the links_scantext template to say what you want, or go LDM/admin/settings/monitor_template and provide the name of a new template that provides the layout you want to use.

[Slave]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

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.

That's great .. thanks AndrewD

[Foxsake]

Ive installed this and all seems to be fine.
However i cant work out how to get the file_icons_dir working? :surprised:

I point it to the place the files are on the server and all i get is not found?

What exactly do i have to put in this box? - Ive tried numerous things to no avail


Thanks in advance if you can help

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Foxsake

Ive installed this and all seems to be fine.
However i cant work out how to get the file_icons_dir working? :surprised:

I point it to the place the files are on the server and all i get is not found?

What exactly do i have to put in this box? - Ive tried numerous things to no avail


Thanks in advance if you can help

Suppose your site is http://yoursite
Suppose your forum directory is http://yoursite/forum
Suppose you've put the LDM icons in http://yoursite/forum/LDMicons

Then file_icons_dir should be set to LDMicons [i.e. it's relative to forum]

However, suppose you've put the icons in http://yoursite/LDMicons (i.e. not in the forum branch of your site)

Then file_icons_dir should be set to ../LDMicons

If youstill have problems, send me a PM with your site details and an admin account, and I'm happy to take a look

[Slave]

A quick question AndrewD

How are you coming along with the import/export stuff? .. I've a lot of links which are being used in a 1.60 LDM version which I'd like to move to a 2.1.1 version, but as I've already got links in the 2.1.1 version I can't import them.

In the meantime of you improving the import/export side of things, can you suggest a way of getting these links into the 2.1.1 version easily?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Slave

A quick question AndrewD

How are you coming along with the import/export stuff? .. I've a lot of links which are being used in a 1.60 LDM version which I'd like to move to a 2.1.1 version, but as I've already got links in the 2.1.1 version I can't import them.

In the meantime of you improving the import/export side of things, can you suggest a way of getting these links into the 2.1.1 version easily?

Thanks for reminding me of this. It will be in the 'gold' release for VB36, which may be called 2.2.2 or maybe something else, but will be there quite soon.

[Slave]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Thanks for reminding me of this. It will be in the 'gold' release for VB36, which may be called 2.2.2 or maybe something else, but will be there quite soon.

Given the extra things being added perhaps 2.5 //

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Slave

Given the extra things being added perhaps 2.5 //

Or perhaps 'bloated heavyweight of the year'