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 Alfa1

I have recently upgraded to 2.2.5. The function to browse to a file one wants to upload seems gone. How can I get that back?

It's still there. Nothing changed

Just check - have you got uploads enabled (LDM/admin/settings/uploads)

[Alfa1]

It's on.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

It's on.

Then I'm lost - it works fine for me.

Can I take a look at your site?

[Alfa1]

Yes, please. I'll PM you.

[uniquewebmaster]

Hi,

Is their anyway to make a featured listings and paid submissions?

-Dan

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by uniquewebmaster

Hi,

Is their anyway to make a featured listings and paid submissions?

-Dan

Yes - LDM supports 'Favourites'. You can set it up so that certain users' Favourites are 'featured' sites, and you can control the number of featured sites that are displayed at the head of each listing. So, you can, for example, use the admin's favourites to mark the sites you wish to highlight.

[Slave]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Yes - LDM supports 'Favourites'. You can set it up so that certain users' Favourites are 'featured' sites, and you can control the number of featured sites that are displayed at the head of each listing. So, you can, for example, use the admin's favourites to mark the sites you wish to highlight.

or .. if you want to keep your favourites to yourself .. you could just use the display order ..

http://www.yaxleyvillage.com/local_links.php?catid=4

If you have a look at the above page, the top link has a display order of 0, while the other links have a display order of 1 and show in alphabetical order.

[uniquewebmaster]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Yes - LDM supports 'Favourites'. You can set it up so that certain users' Favourites are 'featured' sites, and you can control the number of featured sites that are displayed at the head of each listing. So, you can, for example, use the admin's favourites to mark the sites you wish to highlight.

How would I go about this?

thanks

-Dan

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by uniquewebmaster

How would I go about this?

thanks

-Dan

a) Go to LDM/admin/settings/Featured Sites Settings

- enter the username(s) whose favourites will be used as featured sites (ajax enabled - after three characters, you get a prompt)
- enter the number of favourites to be displayed as featured sites.

b) as one of the selected users, go to LDM and set up the desired sites as favourites (hint - use the thumb icon if you've enabled icons in LDM)

You'll see a random selection of these sites on every LDM page.

[zooki]

I still have a problem from a few weeks back,

I moved to a new server and since then LDM does not work.

My files are in the right place, i have even upgraded my ldm, i get the following error:

Sorry - link is not currently available

Im really puzzled as to why i get this message. I hope you can help me. thanks