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.

[MissKalunji]

This thing aint working for me

no matter the imput i put on it still says its too larg

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by BeasTboyz

Andrew, I believe that has done the trick, a friend at a university said he was getting 650KBps off the server using LDM now. You are the man! Thanks for everything .

Matt

Great! I can see the difference too - in this hotel, its reaching me at 200 kB/sec, which isn't bad at all.

Did you use the very large value I suggested? - i.e. about quarter of a megabyte?

Good old Bill G.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by MissKalunji

This thing aint working for me


no matter the imput i put on it still says its too larg

Check on these points:

What size and what type of file are you trying to upload?
What is the maximum filesize for this file type set in your main VB/admincp/attachments/extensions and sizes
What values are configured into your php.ini (VB/maintenance/phpinfo) for the following settings: *upload_max_filesize* and *post_max_sizecode*

[auz1111]

I have 2 issues:

1. when a user tries to download something it makes it to about 2 megs and stops.
2. it is not recording the hits when a user clicks to download

any suggestions?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by auz1111

I have 2 issues:

1. when a user tries to download something it makes it to about 2 megs and stops.
2. it is not recording the hits when a user clicks to download

any suggestions?

You are probably using all the cpu time allowed for php scripts (typically 30 seconds - maybe you have to increase this)

Where is the download coming from (your own server or somewhere else - expensive) and how do you have it recorded in LDM.

If the file is on your own machine, then are you identifiying it as http://yoursite/file or simply as /file? - the second will be much faster.

Take a look at the section in instructions.txt about speed versus security

On the second, the hit is only recorded when the download completes successfully.

Let me know if these suggestions don't help

[auz1111]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

You are probably using all the cpu time allowed for php scripts (typically 30 seconds - maybe you have to increase this)

How would I go about increasing this?

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Where is the download coming from (your own server or somewhere else - expensive) and how do you have it recorded in LDM.)

It is coming from my server.

Originally Posted by AndrewD

If the file is on your own machine, then are you identifiying it as http://yoursite/file or simply as /file? - the second will be much faster.

ok. I was using http://yoursite/file, but i just changed it to /file? and now it is telling me that the link check failed, but when i click the link next to the "link check failed" text it is going to the correct file. ???

I have local_file_root set to 0

[auz1111]

ok... I changed force_redirect to 1, local_file_root to 1, and moved the files to a directory not in the web directory. One of the files works fine although slow. I have another file with the same ./uploads/file.zip location, but it keeps telling me the link check failed. I have checked the server multiple times and checked the spelling and everything is correct. Any idea why it won't find the file?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by auz1111

How would I go about increasing this

Edit the php.ini file

Originally Posted by auz1111

I have local_file_root set to 0

If you cant get to the bottom of this, pm me with details of your board and an account with admin privs and Ill take a look. Mazbe Sunday as Im travelling

On your speed problems, what sort of machine are you using as a server. Windows or Linux and which web server. There are some tweaks we have just sorted out for Windows systems

[BeasTboyz]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Great! I can see the difference too - in this hotel, its reaching me at 200 kB/sec, which isn't bad at all.

Did you use the very large value I suggested? - i.e. about quarter of a megabyte?

Good old Bill G.

Yessir, 204800

Thanks again,

Matt

[Aeolian]

Andrew .. i hav a question...
i like the script a lot... but in my forum i basically will be sharing artists demo music.. so its painful to add media files everytime... is it possible to make a directory listing of specific folder.. and users can download?
Thanx~