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 SMO

I uninstalled this as I really didnt need it any longer...i did like it however. Anyhow,
I uninstalled it and a pop up came and said to run a "something_kill".

It went away really quickly and wasnt sure exactly what to do. How do I run this feature?

The VB uninstall process only 'decouples' LDM from VB, but it leaves the database tables intact in case you change your mind.

If you *really* want to get rid of everything (i.e. delete LDM's database tables), then you need to upload and run the utility in the extras/kill-LDM subdirectory in the release zip.

It will cause no problems if you leave these tables, as they are independent of VB.

[phenomenon]

BUG REPORT:

When jukebox is launched, if "send to friend" is clicked, the linkid returns a wrong catid. For the song I tried to send, i got catid=-10 instead of catid=1

EDIT: It actually isn't including the catid from the jukebox, whereas it is including the catid in the regular links page from the send to friend.

here's what I see on the jukebox when I roll over 'send to friend':

http://www.staytunedtheband.com/forum/local_links.php?action=sendtofriend&linkid=1

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by phenomenon

BUG REPORT:

When jukebox is launched, if "send to friend" is clicked, the linkid returns a wrong catid. For the song I tried to send, i got catid=-10 instead of catid=1

EDIT: It actually isn't including the catid from the jukebox, whereas it is including the catid in the regular links page from the send to friend.

here's what I see on the jukebox when I roll over 'send to friend':

http://www.staytunedtheband.com/forum/local_links.php?action=sendtofriend&linkid=1

Thanks. Noted

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by phenomenon

mp3's don't seem to stream in very well. My solution is to write a flash player to play mp3's. I'll have a look at your Wimpy code in the new version if I can't get it straight; basically I'm going to try to grab the $type in the play section of local_links.php, compare to mp3, and then have it load flash player, so no matter what OS or browser, it gets flash for music.

I'm taking a look at the mp3 flash player on www.jeroenwijering.com - this works fine, and it should be straightforward to build in as a standard option.

[jgommel]

I recently installed LDM and really love this app, but I'd like to utilize my own icons instead of the stock ones. My site is dark - It utilizes multiple shades of grey.

I'm currently developing a bunch of 16x16 icons for my website, but I'm using .png instead of .gif. I decided to use PNGs because they render shadows much better than GIFs. I can create an icon with a drop shadow and use the same icon on both a white or a dark colored website.

Can someone tell me whether it's possible to utilize a .png icon with LDM? If I only need to edit a template or two (or more) that's fine - I just need to know which ones.

Thanks!

[amnesia623]

Not to disregard what jgommel is talking about, but is there a way to integrate an streaming flash player into this?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by amnesia623

Not to disregard what jgommel is talking about, but is there a way to integrate an streaming flash player into this?

Yes there is. Both releases in the VB36 thread include an example (extras/wimpy-player) of how to integrate Wimpy, and in the next upload there will be an example of a second Flash player.

[zooki]

I recently changed servers, my downloads are still in the same folder location on the new server. Everything is the same.

However, now LDM gives following error message whenever click on a download:

Sorry - link is not currently available

I tried revalidating but, it doesnt do it.

"Link check failed /files/some directory/some_file.mp3
Accept Modify"

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by zooki

I recently changed servers, my downloads are still in the same folder location on the new server. Everything is the same.

However, now LDM gives following error message whenever click on a download:

Sorry - link is not currently available

I tried revalidating but, it doesnt do it.

"Link check failed /files/some directory/some_file.mp3
Accept Modify"

Do you have local_file_root and local_file_root_prefix set the same on the old and new servers.

Happy to take a look if you want - I'll need an admin username and pwd

[SherryG]

Hi there,

I am a total newbie at this but seemed to have everything installed and working as it should. I do have one problem though. When I try to download a file, I'm getting the following error message:

Error - Cannot determine if you can access link: linkid,forumid= 2, 17

Can someone tell me how I might resolve this?

Thanks so much!
Sherry