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.

[TygerTyger]

Once again Andrew, thank you very much for your stellar support and effort on this Add. It's truly paid off spectacularly well.

I mentioned an issue before whereby renamed files (links.php) etc were still retaining their original names in the links page menus and so on. That seems to have been sorted out, except for the 'Administer' drop-down menu which still refers to local_links_admin after it's been renamed.

[kadafi_alive]

Hi Andrew,

At present, it only updates hit after someone downloads. Is there a way to add hitcount for streaming media?

Much thanks in advance

Regards

[Vtec44]

Andrew,

I modified the links_catbit & links_subcatbit, added an "If" statement so it changes the icon to a different color whenever a new item is added. I'm not sure if these have been implimented with the newer version, I'm still using v2.05. Here's a screen shoot, you're more than welcome to use it in the next versions Thanks for all the hardwork, I'm planning to use your mod extensively on my forum.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by benj

umm andew after looking deeper into 2.0.7 relised that your hit parade thing is cool but not what i ment when i PM'd you to clarifyi kinda ment

sort by hits

overal
hits today
hits this week
hits this month

on a category basis


the hit parade is still cool tho

just thought id clarify that


cheers for all the hard work

OK - so that I'm clear - when people are looking at a category, you want them to be able to sort the list by 'total hits', 'hits today', 'hits this week' and 'hits this month'?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Vtec44

Andrew,

I modified the links_catbit & links_subcatbit, added an "If" statement so it changes the icon to a different color whenever a new item is added. I'm not sure if these have been implimented with the newer version, I'm still using v2.05. Here's a screen shoot, you're more than welcome to use it in the next versions Thanks for all the hardwork, I'm planning to use your mod extensively on my forum.

Thanks - looks good - these will be included as of the second beta for 2.0.7.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by kadafi_alive

Hi Andrew,

At present, it only updates hit after someone downloads. Is there a way to add hitcount for streaming media?

Much thanks in advance

Regards

Yes, in the second beta for 2.0.7. Thanks for pointing this out.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by TygerTyger

Once again Andrew, thank you very much for your stellar support and effort on this Add. It's truly paid off spectacularly well.

I mentioned an issue before whereby renamed files (links.php) etc were still retaining their original names in the links page menus and so on. That seems to have been sorted out, except for the 'Administer' drop-down menu which still refers to local_links_admin after it's been renamed.

Correct - will fix in the second beta.

[kadafi_alive]

Thanks,

I have tried creating a linked subforum for one of the categories, but when i click the linked subforum, it gives me an error page:

I have checked the link and it was:

http://www.domain.com/.php?catid=1

so obviously, it has omitted the "local_links" phrase

regards

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by kadafi_alive

Thanks,

I have tried creating a linked subforum for one of the categories, but when i click the linked subforum, it gives me an error page:

I have checked the link and it was:

http://www.domain.com/.php?catid=1

so obviously, it has omitted the "local_links" phrase

regards

Confirmed, will be fixed in second beta. You will have to delete and recreate the linked forum, or go into your main VB admin and manually edit the forum redirect to the correct url.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by benj

2.0.7 looks wkd to me one more small request maybe a "uploading please wait" when a file is being uploaded cheers

To be included in second beta.

I feared you wanted a progress meter - these are much harder to get working.