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.

[Benj]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

To be included in second beta.

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

hahha yeah i know how hard they are to get working... everyones struggling with them these days.

and yeah andew your post about sorting by hits is totally correct! cheeers


benj

[Dark_Wizard]

I'm assuming this supports categories and if so does it support subcategories?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Dark_Wizard

I'm assuming this supports categories and if so does it support subcategories?

Naturally...

And you can put an entry in several categories at the same time...

[TundraSoul]

<i>Good job Andrew, I upgraded successfully.</i> I like the ability to edit the link date, and I'm looking forward to beta 2. I couldn't however get the SEO links to work. When I tried it, and clicked on the category link, I was simply taken back to the forums. Note, I'm using vB SEO, so that may have something to do with it.

My favorites from the wishlist: + Provide some form of keyword association
- perhaps linked to user profile

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by TundraSoul

I couldn't get the SEO links to work. When I tried it, and clicked on the category link, I was simply taken back to the forums. Note, I'm using vB SEO, so that may have something to do with it.

Sorry to hear this. I don't know about VB SEO. Within Apache, these are the rules you need:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule local_links/links/(.+)/(.+) local_links.php?catid=$1&linkid=$2 [R]
RewriteRule local_links/links/(.+)      local_links.php?catid=$1 [R]
RewriteRule local_links/jump/(.+)/(.+)  local_links.php?action=jump&id=$1&catid=$2 [R]
RewriteRule local_links/jump/(.+)       local_links.php?action=jump&id=$1 [R]

[TundraSoul]

Thanks, I'll gve that a try.

Is it possible to improve the keyword searching? For instance currently if I search for 2000 Toyota Celica, it find every link with any of the words from my search. Instead I would rather find those links with all the words in my search. I think this is called search by phrase.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by TundraSoul

Thanks, I'll gve that a try.

Is it possible to improve the keyword searching? For instance currently if I search for 2000 Toyota Celica, it find every link with any of the words from my search. Instead I would rather find those links with all the words in my search. I think this is called search by phrase.

Put quotation marks around the string. By default, it looks separately for each word - perhaps this is wrong.

*Edited* Alternatively, change *match_using_like* to 1 in LDM's admin/settings page.

By default, LDM uses SQL's 'Boolean Mode' full text searches. This is powerful but has some idiosyncracies. Ditto the alternative SQL 'LIKE' matching.

[bhxtyrant]

Hey Andrew,I ave a quick question.I remember i asked you this a long time ago back when i was using the version of LDM for vBulliten 3.0

I just wanted to ask how to once again remove the "Trawled during scan /file path/" message which is automatically put in when files are added to LDM 2.0.5.Thansk as always!

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by bhxtyrant

Hey Andrew,I ave a quick question.I remember i asked you this a long time ago back when i was using the version of LDM for vBulliten 3.0

I just wanted to ask how to once again remove the "Trawled during scan /file path/" message which is automatically put in when files are added to LDM 2.0.5.Thansk as always!

It's built using the template links_scantext - just edit that template to say whatever you want.

[bhxtyrant]

Hmm there doesnt seem to be a template called "links_scantext" i only see links_Admin_Scan_one,links_Admin_Scan_start,links_ Admin_Scan_end,links_Admin_Sca n_line.