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 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

Did you by any chance move from a server that was running Apache to one that is running Windows IIS with php in cgi mode? (You can find out on your VB/admincp home page.)

By default, IIS in cgi mode does not provide one of the location variables (DOCUMENT_ROOT) that LDM uses to find files on your local server.

If this is the problem, there are three possible solutions:
- get DOCUMENT_ROOT defined (I'm not an expert on configuring web servers, so get some advice or search on Gogle)
- upgrade to version 2.2.6 which fixes this problem - you have to make a small code change
- use the LDM admin settings local_file_root and local_file_root_ settings to get LDM pointed at the right place in your server file system.

If this is not the problem, send me a PM and I'm happy to take a look at your site.

[zooki]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Did you by any chance move from a server that was running Apache to one that is running Windows IIS with php in cgi mode? (You can find out on your VB/admincp home page.)

By default, IIS in cgi mode does not provide one of the location variables (DOCUMENT_ROOT) that LDM uses to find files on your local server.

If this is the problem, there are three possible solutions:
- get DOCUMENT_ROOT defined (I'm not an expert on configuring web servers, so get some advice or search on Gogle)
- upgrade to version 2.2.6 which fixes this problem - you have to make a small code change
- use the LDM admin settings local_file_root and local_file_root_ settings to get LDM pointed at the right place in your server file system.

If this is not the problem, send me a PM and I'm happy to take a look at your site.

HI, no im not on Windows server, it is a linux server. Although it is clustered.

i am not sure about local_file_root and local_file_root_settings

my files are in a folder off the root, so they are in a folder called files/

I get the following error:

The following setting(s) are invalid
upload_dir : /files
Directory /files (/mnt/Target01/var/www/files) doesn't exist and I can't create it

Its got the wrong address to my root... I know what the correct path should be, LDM is missing part of the address

how would i configer it? I have no clue either.

EDIT:
OK, i got it to work, what i did was edit the local_links_init.php ....... should i be editing the local_links_init.php ? what else can i use apart from the document_root? I tried adding a line underneath in the part you meant to define your own document root. It works now.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by zooki

HI, no im not on Windows server, it is a linux server. Although it is clustered.

i am not sure about local_file_root and local_file_root_settings

my files are in a folder off the root, so they are in a folder called files/

I get the following error:

The following setting(s) are invalid
upload_dir : /files
Directory /files (/mnt/Target01/var/www/files) doesn't exist and I can't create it

Its got the wrong address to my root... I know what the correct path should be, LDM is missing part of the address

how would i configer it? I have no clue either.

EDIT:
OK, i got it to work, what i did was edit the local_links_init.php ....... should i be editing the local_links_init.php ? what else can i use apart from the document_root? I tried adding a line underneath in the part you meant to define your own document root. It works now.

I think you've probably taken the best approach. If the environment variable DOCUMENT_ROOT is not pointing at the right base directory for your site, then you'll et the problem you reported. Editing local_links_init.php is fine - just remember what you did in case you ever upgrade to a new version of LDM.

[efil]

Hi,
I get this message when i try to add a new link:

Sorry - links to offsite downloads have been disabled. http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/9...nglish2zd3.jpg

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by efil

Hi,
I get this message when i try to add a new link:

Go to LDM/admin/settings/security and access controls

Check that allow_remote_downloads is on

[efil]

Thank you!

It's working.

[mathias]

I want to put the last 10 links on a non vb page how would I go about that?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by mathias

I want to put the last 10 links on a non vb page how would I go about that?

So you need to grab them from the database? This sql grabs the last 10, most recent first.

SELECT 
link.linkid AS linkid, 
link.linkname AS linkname, 
link.linkuserid AS linkuserid, 
link.linkusername AS linkusername, 
link.linkurl AS linkurl, 
link.linkdesc AS linkdesc, 
link.numrate AS numrate, 
link.totrate AS totrate, 
link.linkhits AS linkhits, 
link.linksize AS linksize, 
link.linkstatus AS linkstatus, 
link.linkdate AS linkdate, 
link.linkmoderate AS linkmoderate, 
ltoc.catid AS linkcatid 

FROM local_linkslink AS link 
LEFT JOIN local_linksltoc AS ltoc 
ON link.linkid = ltoc.linkid 

WHERE link.linkstatus>0 

ORDER BY 
linkdate DESC, 
linkname ASC, 
linkcatid ASC

LIMIT 10

[mathias]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

So you need to grab them from the database? This sql grabs the last 10, most recent first.

SELECT 
link.linkid AS linkid, 
link.linkname AS linkname, 
link.linkuserid AS linkuserid, 
link.linkusername AS linkusername, 
link.linkurl AS linkurl, 
link.linkdesc AS linkdesc, 
link.numrate AS numrate, 
link.totrate AS totrate, 
link.linkhits AS linkhits, 
link.linksize AS linksize, 
link.linkstatus AS linkstatus, 
link.linkdate AS linkdate, 
link.linkmoderate AS linkmoderate, 
ltoc.catid AS linkcatid 

FROM local_linkslink AS link 
LEFT JOIN local_linksltoc AS ltoc 
ON link.linkid = ltoc.linkid 

WHERE link.linkstatus>0 

ORDER BY 
linkdate DESC, 
linkname ASC, 
linkcatid ASC

LIMIT 10

kind of wanted to use html on a non vb page lol thats to complicated for me

[mathias]

is there also a way for me to set permissions on who can delete links like make mods?