Major Additions - DownloadsII

There's a vB4 version of this mod available: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=231427

DownloadsII

DownloadsII is a download database that integrates into vBulletin. It allows you to upload files, add images to them, create categories, link to external files - and more. It is very flexible and has many options.

Because a lot of people keep on asking this:
This mod works with any version of vBulletin 3.7.x and 3.8.x!

It's also coded 100% XHTML 1.0 Transitional valid, just like vBulletin itself.



Instructions & Support

You can find an installation manual in the zip package (Readme-Install.txt).

We try to answer most questions asked in this thread. Please don't send any pm's if we don't ask for them, as we said we try to give a high level of support in this thread. Don't forget to click the install link, so you will receive important update notifications.

Screenshots & Live demo

At the bottom of this post, you can find 6 screenshots of the front-end and back-end (AdminCP part) of the DownloadsII software. You can see the newest version in action at the Minatica.be Downloads (Dutch).

Changelog (version 5.1.2)

Jelle

• Backported CSRF security fix from the vB 4 release
• Added permission check for Update Counters
• Fixed PHP warnings when running PHP 5.3
• Removed the imagecreatefrombmp() function. It doesn't exist.
• Added permission check for rating submissions

You can find all the changelogs of this and older versions here.

Help!!! I can't upload large files??

This is probably the second most asked question. Have a look at this post for the solution.

It doesn't work with GARS?!

If you also use the latest version of GARS, you will get the "Fields marked in RED must be filled in!" error when uploading a file. I provided a fix here on the GARS forums.

Addons

We are offering 3 addons for this mod at the moment (have a look at the bottom of this post for them). DownloadsII contains 5 hook locations for the vBulletin plugin systems, so you can add extra functionality without file edits.

Do you want to help expanding DownloadsII (if you are a coder)? Check out this post!

Notes

• ecDownloads Buddy is NOT compatible with this version. If you are using the Buddy, you should UNINSTALL it before installing DownloadsII ver 5.x.x. The Buddy's features are now integrated into DownloadsII.
• DownloadsII is a direct derivative work from Ron1n's ecDownloads.

Addons

• DownloadsII ver 5.0 vbAdvanced Add-On
• DownloadsII PM moderation notification
• DownloadsII Create New Thread Add-On
• DownloadsII Simple RSS Feed Add-On
• DownloadsII[Add-On] - Upload Rules

[DementedMindz]

ahhh that looks nice up there. thanks

[anarx]

It looks very, very nice!
Will it work for VB 3.6.1 ?

[Black Tiger]

Yes it does. I've got it running without problems on 3.6.0 and also 3.6.1 at the moment.

[trackpads]

Question,

I have taken the precaution of moving the file path to below my root and everything works fine except when someone uploads images to accompany downloads. They are broken because it is trying to refer to the above the root directory.

is there a way to specify a path for downloads and a path for the seperate images to prevent this?

Thanks!

-Jason

[Black Tiger]

Probably you have done it like this:
/home/domain/public_html/downloads
and your forums are in /home/domain/public_html/yourforums
or something like that.
But as i understood a few topics ago from the coder, it should be relative to your forums path.
In this example, your relative path should be:
../downloads/
and then images should work.
I hope I understood the explanation of the coder correctly.
It's explained in msg #399.

[trackpads]

Thanks but not in my case. I appreciate the help though. My forums are here:

http://www.trackpads.com/forum

And my setting is this:

../../downloads/

This places it here in my webserver path:

/home/myaccount/downloads where my forum is
/home/myaccount/public_html/forum

The reason I did this was that I kept finding some jackass who was somehow getting shell scripts into that folder because it was chmod 777. The only way to prevent it was either move it or change the chmod which I cant do.

The other problem is that since I have more than 1998 files (over 12K now) the ftp will not display them, just the first 1998. So it is hard to manage the directory.

Thanks again,

-Jason

[RS_Jelle]

The images are using the same path, so it's a known problem (that's why we don't recommend it at this moment)
You can fix it by modifying downloads.php. Find $dl->url in it and replace them (but not all) with the correct site url to the images.

You don't need to change for example:

PHP Code:

if (!is_dir($dl->url)) 


Only the images (img html tag), for example:

PHP Code:

<img src="'.$dl->url.$thumb_x['thumb'].'" 


Change this example to (or something like that):

PHP Code:

<img src="/downloads/'.$thumb_x['thumb'].'" 


Your second problem is also a known one, we need to built in an option that creates directories to seperate the files so you don't get such large directories.

[Hornstar]

Originally Posted by hippsta

Hiya I've read through all 28 pages of this thread and am very impressed by WP and Jelle, so i have no doubt that you can handle this one.
(Your sheer dedication should get you guys MotM, btw and i voted for it)

Everything works great so far as i can tell, however.. on my site not all files are to be downloadable, but i would like all to be viewable so to speak, without downloading...

Like A Play/View Button? To listen to a song, or view an image. Preferably in the download_file template

I got in there lol and was trying things to create a link to it but i couldn't figure it out so that it was universal... {$file['url']} didn't get exactly there...

Please Help Me Out. You guys are the best

I may post some example url's later so you guys can take a look at other systems out their, but i think you guys have been requested this already.


Just like in the above quote. I too would really like this.

So not only would users be able to download it, but if it is a supported file type, they could either open it, or play it like youtube/google video etc.

Also a way to embed google video/you tube video etc. so users can post youtube video onto the site, and it plays on the site, and they can comment on it on the site, but it doesnt waste the bandwidth of the site.

Also was there mention of a paid/lite version and are you guys developing this on a site that I can check out the progress etc.

Thanks.

[RS_Jelle]

Originally Posted by hornstar1337

Just like in the above quote. I too would really like this.

So not only would users be able to download it, but if it is a supported file type, they could either open it, or play it like youtube/google video etc.

Also a way to embed google video/you tube video etc. so users can post youtube video onto the site, and it plays on the site, and they can comment on it on the site, but it doesnt waste the bandwidth of the site.

AdminCP -> Downloads -> Settings -> Open Directly in Browser
Add the file extension on that list to open it in the browser directly. There is no real embedded option at this moment.

Originally Posted by hornstar1337

Also was there mention of a paid/lite version and are you guys developing this on a site that I can check out the progress etc.

I don't know where you read that. We aren't creating such a thing and there are no plans for it
The next thing we are working on is version 6, a big release with many new features

[TheBlackPoet]

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I Found What I Was Looking For And Furiously Followed Your Instructions....

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Thank You And Have A Great Day!!!