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.

[bhxtyrant]

I see,thanks for the replies and help by the way.Also note that i just tried uninstalling and reinstalling LDM through the admin panel but didnt help any.I still get the same issues.

On a more positive note i really love the way the new version is set up,It's so easy to customize templates in the version.I made a similar setup in vB as well to make it a bit easier for myself.Last time on 3.0 i was hard coding all my templates which took up a lot of time.

I would just say the heck with it and reinstall the mod from scratch (as it worked perfectly fine when i installed it for testing on another server) but if i were to do that i would have to re-add the 2000 links in my database and re-create the catagories/sub catagory structure :ermm: good luck.I will get you that mysql dump asap.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by 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:

You've turned off the Forum Jump menu in the main vb admincp , haven't you... For the time being, the problem should go away if you turn if back on - at least for long enough to set the value you want for the days_seen_on_portal and default_forum_id parameters. I'll investigate further - I had handled this situation correctly with VB3.0, but I need to work out the fix for vb35.

[AndrewD]

Some of you are experiencing problems with setting the days_seen_on_portal and default_forumid parameters. I think you will find that you have switched off the forumjump in your main vb admin. You can fix the problem in one of two ways:

Either
a) Turn Use Forum Jump back on for the length of time you need to set these parameters

or

b) Patch local_linksadmin.php. At line 184, change

	construct_forum_jump();

to read

// Force construct_forum_jump to return a result even if user has turned off the forumjump menu
	$vbulletin->options['useforumjump'] = 1;
	construct_forum_jump();

The same bug also hits the add link, edit link, add category and edit category forms, which may lack a forum selection list is you have turned off forum jumps. The solution is exactly the same, at the relevant places in local_links.php.

This will be fixed in the next release of LDM.

[bhxtyrant]

Hey Andrew,Yes thats what it was alright.We have the ForumJump menu disabled on our forums because we really have to use for it as all links are clearly accessable on menu's and such on our forums/site.I applied your fix and it's now working perfectly.Thanks alot for helping with the problem. i love the new version so far.lots of nice features.

[Blackbeard]

Iam having one small problem, thumbnail images are not being shown, set to 64, not using tables but the other option, i get a white square with unable and i cannot read rest of message, what am i doing wrong.

Also is there a way to link it with ftp site with username and password as it will not connect to one.

[bhxtyrant]

Originally Posted by Blackbeard

Iam having one small problem, thumbnail images are not being shown, set to 64, not using tables but the other option, i get a white square with unable and i cannot read rest of message, what am i doing wrong.

Also is there a way to link it with ftp site with username and password as it will not connect to one.

About the image problem,I had the same issue a while back and it was because we didnt have GD installed on our server.Do you know if you have it?

[Blackbeard]

Links and Downloads Database
Code 2.0.5
MySQL 4.0.25-standard
PHP 4.4.0
allow_url_fopen Yes
cURL Yes
GD2 Yes

looking at the table at bottom of settings its says yes and i dont have problems displaying thumbnails on the forum

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Blackbeard

Iam having one small problem, thumbnail images are not being shown, set to 64, not using tables but the other option, i get a white square with unable and i cannot read rest of message, what am i doing wrong.

The string probably reads 'unable to load ...' which means that the thumbnail display script has not been able to read the file. Try creating a new link in which you use the image filename as the link itself, and see if clicking on it works. Do any thumbnails work or is it just this one?

Originally Posted by Blackbeard

Also is there a way to link it with ftp site with username and password as it will not connect to one.

I have not tried this, but I had not coded anything special for usernames/passwords. Are you using the fopen or curl interface? Curl, if available, is used by default.

[bhxtyrant]

Just noticed another small problem which is more then likely the same issue in another file.In any "edit" menu for catagories,sub catagories or mass edit's the same problem with only "Parent Forum" and "none" showing up.I checked out the Local_links.php file and noticed it uses the same code "construct_forum_jump();" so i tried adding the same fix but it didnt seem to work lol thought it would be easy but i guess not.Any possible fix for that as well?

[TundraSoul]

Here's a suggestion for this to make searching the database more accurate and useful.

When you add or edit a link, offer the ability to associate the link with a an item from the users profile. For instance, lets say the user is from California, and there's a user profile field with a list of states, one being California. When I add a link, I could choose California and other states and that creates an association between that link and the user. For that matter all uses who have California in their profile.

The point here is to associate the information in the users profile field with links in the links database. When the user returns to the links database they can optionally search for new links and be shown what's relevant to them. This association can be useful with many types if links or downloadable content. You could have profile fields for locations, hobbies, vehicles, schools, etc, and put groups of links together based on the users apparent interest.