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 Tradjick

It?s working! Merci 1000 fois *installed on 2.0.6/

Just one thing: Would it be possible for the plugin to see inwhich category that the link has been clicked. Because most of mylinks have multiple categories, it can be confusing for the navigator if he sees a catogegory in the navbar that he? s never been into.

I think this will be possible but not with the current 2.0.6 - it will need a small change to the code which will appear in the next upload.

[eva01_]

hmmm i just installed this and am trying to add in an area for downloads for people that have used the Paid Subscriptions, however that forum does not show up in the parent forum....

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by eva01_

hmmm i just installed this and am trying to add in an area for downloads for people that have used the Paid Subscriptions, however that forum does not show up in the parent forum....

Not quite sure I understand?

[eva01_]

Well i have a forum for people that use the paid subscription in the UserCP. So i try to set up a category and to select the Contributor forum as the "Parent Forum" To only give access to that category to contributors and administrators. However the Contributor forum just doesn't show up in the Parent Forum box.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by eva01_

Well i have a forum for people that use the paid subscription in the UserCP. So i try to set up a category and to select the Contributor forum as the "Parent Forum" To only give access to that category to contributors and administrators. However the Contributor forum just doesn't show up in the Parent Forum box.

The Parent Forum box is built using the same Vbulletin code that is used to create the forumjump menus. So the "add link" page that the user sees should include exactly the same forum choices as appear in the forumjump - i.e should depend on the forum and usergroup permission masks. Is there anything special about the protection masks you have applied to the Contributor forum? I haven't tried using paid subscriptions - does this use a different type of mask?

[kadafi_alive]

Andrew, did you manage to get the 'embedded windowsmediaplayer' for streaming to work?

Regards

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by kadafi_alive

Andrew, did you manage to get the 'embedded windowsmediaplayer' for streaming to work?

Regards

Yes, it works on my system - at least version 2.0.5 does.

[kadafi_alive]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Yes, it works on my system - at least version 2.0.5 does.

Hi Andrew, thank you for the fast reply.

Is there also a way to make it embedded for realplayer?

Regards

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by kadafi_alive

Hi Andrew, thank you for the fast reply.

Is there also a way to make it embedded for realplayer?

Regards

I think so, but offhand I don't know what the <OBJECT> statement looks like for real media.

for media player, it is as follows:

<OBJECT ID="MediaPlayer" WIDTH=200 HEIGHT=100 
    CLASSID="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"
    STANDBY="Loading Windows Media Player components..." 
    TYPE="application/x-oleobject">
  <PARAM NAME="FileName" VALUE="$STREAM_SCRIPT.php?action=stream&amp;id=$linkid">
  <EMBED TYPE="application/x-mplayer2" 
    src="$STREAM_SCRIPT.php?action=stream&amp;id=$linkid"
    NAME="MediaPlayer"
    WIDTH=200
    HEIGHT=100>
  </EMBED>
</OBJECT>

[kadafi_alive]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

I think so, but offhand I don't know what the <OBJECT> statement looks like for real media.

for media player, it is as follows:

<OBJECT ID="MediaPlayer" WIDTH=200 HEIGHT=100 
    CLASSID="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"
    STANDBY="Loading Windows Media Player components..." 
    TYPE="application/x-oleobject">
  <PARAM NAME="FileName" VALUE="$STREAM_SCRIPT.php?action=stream&amp;id=$linkid">
  <EMBED TYPE="application/x-mplayer2" 
    src="$STREAM_SCRIPT.php?action=stream&amp;id=$linkid"
    NAME="MediaPlayer"
    WIDTH=200
    HEIGHT=100>
  </EMBED>
</OBJECT>

Hi,

When I add the object code for realplayer, it displays the windowsmediaplayer alongside with the realplayer. What I want is that it first checks the file, and if it's a realplayer file, it should launch realplayer, if not, then windows.

This what I had for the jukebox created by trafix:

PHP Code:

<if condition="$canplay == 1 AND ($fext == "mpg" or $fext == "mpeg" or $fext == "wmv" or $fext == "mp3" or $fext == "swf" or $fext == "asf" or $fext == "wma" or $fext == "avi")">                    
<center>    <object id="MediaPlayer1" 
width=$viewwidth height=$viewheight
classid="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6"
type="application/x-oleobject">
<param name="URL" value="$playsong">
<embed type="application/x-mplayer2" 
name="MediaPlayer"
width=$viewwidth
height=$viewheight
src="$playsong"
showcontrols="1">
</embed>
</object>
</center>
</if>
<if condition="$canplay == 1 AND ($fext == "rm" or $fext == "ra" or $fext == "ram" or $fext == "rt" or $fext == "rp" or $fext == "rv" or $fext == "rmvb" or $fext == "mov")">                    
<center> <object id="player" classid="clsid:CFCDAA03-8BE4-11cf-B84B-0020AFBBCCFA" width=167 height=36>
     <param name="CONTROLS" value="ControlPanel">
     <param name="AUTOGOTOURL" value="FALSE">
     <param name="CONSOLE" value="radio">
     <param name="AUTOSTART" value="TRUE">
     <param name="SRC" value="$playsong">
<embed name="player" type="audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin" height=36 width=167 NOJAVA=true autostart="true" console="one" controls="ControlPanel" src="$playsong"/>
</object>
</embed>
</center>
</if> 


Regards