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 benj

NOOOOOOOO! Keep it i need it coz as you might remember i plan to play mp3s thru this addon. and my artists dont want people to be able to download there mp3's just stream them. i dunno if it would be possible with the media player thing / or will be possible in some other way but i was gonna make a flash player so users can only stream music from my site not download it... this is kinda crutal to my site. unless you have anyother ideas that is


cheers andrew

OK, will investigate.

[bhxtyrant]

Hey andrew,having a bit of a problem here,I just upgraded our forums and installed the update for this mod and everything works fine on the outside but on the inside when i try to change anything in the "settings and permissions" area of the admin page i get the following error

The following setting(s) are invalid
days_seen_on_portal : 0,0
Return

i have tried changed the option for "days seen on portal" to many different ones from 0 and up but it still get this error.I think it may be because i upgraded from the old 1.60 but im not sure.any help would be appreciated

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by bhxtyrant

Hey andrew,having a bit of a problem here,I just upgraded our forums and installed the update for this mod and everything works fine on the outside but on the inside when i try to change anything in the "settings and permissions" area of the admin page i get the following error



i have tried changed the option for "days seen on portal" to many different ones from 0 and up but it still get this error.I think it may be because i upgraded from the old 1.60 but im not sure.any help would be appreciated

Do you get exactly the same error regardless of the value you put in the option field? If so, I think that the form must be returning the wrong value to the code. Take a look at your main admincp/style manager and see if the system is showing rthat you mave multiple versions of templates like links_admin_onesetting_start, etc. If so, it's picking up the wrong template - perhaps the old versions were not cleared out during the upgrade (should have happened automatically).

If this is the not the problem, go to the links admin/settings page, do a 'view source', and email me the result - ad_rodin (at) noos.fr. Also a dump of the local_linksadmin table from your database.

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

is there any word on an UPLOAD feature in future update? that feature is still killing me in my going back and forther between this and the vbDownloads hack.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by GrendelKhan{TSU

is there any word on an UPLOAD feature in future update? that feature is still killing me in my going back and forther between this and the vbDownloads hack.

The word is *mark this very carefully and pay me in gold coins* - the alpha code is written and running on my PC and should be ready for beta testing soon.

To briefly explain:

Upload will be handled as an additional field on the 'add link' form. It is only visible when
a) the current user's usergroup has *can_upload_files* permission
b) the master switch *uploads_enabled* is turned on
c) the total disk space used for uploads is less than a per-site maximum

Uploads will only be available for file with recognised mimetypes according to the standard vb admin settings.

OK

[bhxtyrant]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Do you get exactly the same error regardless of the value you put in the option field? If so, I think that the form must be returning the wrong value to the code. Take a look at your main admincp/style manager and see if the system is showing rthat you mave multiple versions of templates like links_admin_onesetting_start, etc. If so, it's picking up the wrong template - perhaps the old versions were not cleared out during the upgrade (should have happened automatically).

If this is the not the problem, go to the links admin/settings page, do a 'view source', and email me the result - ad_rodin (at) noos.fr. Also a dump of the local_linksadmin table from your database.

No i don't get the same error exactly depending on the value.The error looks like this.

The following setting(s) are invalid
days_seen_on_portal : 30,0

with the number "30" before ",0" changing to whatever value i put in for "days seen on portal"

I checked templates and nope only one set of templates for LDM is showing up.I will e-mail you the source in a moment but i wont have access to get you the mysql dump until our admin is online.Thanks for the help.

[PtP]

I am having the same problem, just a little more info to help, whatever I imput into that field it aphends ,30 to it ie: I put 0 in I get 0,30 as the error and if I put 30 in I get 30,30. Hope this helps in diagnosis.

Originally Posted by bhxtyrant

Hey andrew,having a bit of a problem here,I just upgraded our forums and installed the update for this mod and everything works fine on the outside but on the inside when i try to change anything in the "settings and permissions" area of the admin page i get the following error



i have tried changed the option for "days seen on portal" to many different ones from 0 and up but it still get this error.I think it may be because i upgraded from the old 1.60 but im not sure.any help would be appreciated

[bhxtyrant]

yep that is the same thing i get,i have determined that the two numbers in the error message are from

"days_seen_on_portal"=0 and "default_forumid"=0
Which looks like this 0,0 in the error message.

Besides this everything else seems to work perfectly.

:EDIT: e-mail sent

i also notice when i go to edit/create a new link that in the "Parent Forum" portion in the old version it used to have a list of all my forums on vB but now the only thing there is "Parent Forum,None" :ermm:

[Benj]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

The word is *mark this very carefully and pay me in gold coins* - the alpha code is written and running on my PC and should be ready for beta testing soon.

To briefly explain:

Upload will be handled as an additional field on the 'add link' form. It is only visible when
a) the current user's usergroup has *can_upload_files* permission
b) the master switch *uploads_enabled* is turned on
c) the total disk space used for uploads is less than a per-site maximum

Uploads will only be available for file with recognised mimetypes according to the standard vb admin settings.

OK

andrews a legend

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by bhxtyrant

i also notice when i go to edit/create a new link that in the "Parent Forum" portion in the old version it used to have a list of all my forums on vB but now the only thing there is "Parent Forum,None" :ermm:

Precisely .. that is what I must track down.