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 benj

hey andrew just wondering is there a way in the links_linkbit template to show which place a download/link appears on a list? so when looking at say hits in 24 hours the top downloaded link (at top of list) has 1 next to it followed underneath by 2 3 4 etc

With the new 2.0.7RC (not the first one), you can edit any of the links_linkbit templates and include the following

<if condition="$sort=='30' or $sort=='7' or $sort=='1'">$linkhit</if>

It is not possible to include its position in the 'hits' when you are not sorting by hits. However, you can use the $linkhit variable simply to show where the entry is in the current sort order.

[Jukov]

I'm translating LDM to hebrew, could someone point me to where the Links and Downloads Database phrases are?
I mean I need to translate :
"Most popular entries during the last 30 days:"
"During the last 30 days:" etc.
can't seem to find it with phrase search...

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Jukov

I'm translating LDM to hebrew, could someone point me to where the Links and Downloads Database phrases are?
I mean I need to translate :
"Most popular entries during the last 30 days:"
"During the last 30 days:" etc.
can't seem to find it with phrase search...

The phrases files sit in /development/phrases - if you take the English file as your model and post your results here, I'll make sure that the release also includes a product loader for Hebrew

[Benj]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

With the new 2.0.7RC (not the first one), you can edit any of the links_linkbit templates and include the following

<if condition="$sort=='30' or $sort=='7' or $sort=='1'">$linkhit</if>

It is not possible to include its position in the 'hits' when you are not sorting by hits. However, you can use the $linkhit variable simply to show where the entry is in the current sort order.

just what i need cheers mate

[Jukov]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

The phrases files sit in /development/phrases - if you take the English file as your model and post your results here, I'll make sure that the release also includes a product loader for Hebrew

OK thanks, I'll upload in half an hour

[Benj]

works a dream whats the condition to get this to work in "whats hot"

cheers

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by benj

works a dream whats the condition to get this to work in "whats hot"


cheers

edit local_links_include.php, around line 1300 or so, function get_links2; a few lines later, just before the line

PHP Code:

eval("\$links .= \"".fetch_template('links_vbalinks')."\";"); 


insert a line

PHP Code:

$linkhit = $nhits+1; 


, then patch the links_vbalinks template in the same way as the linkbit. I'll make this change to the php in the final release.

*Edited* - except that you don't have the variable $sort available, so there's no point making a check on it

[Jukov]

I'm having some troubles translating due to encoding issues, but it will be solved.

few questions, though : can a message box be added at the top of the entry page of LDM so it will be used for writing short terms and conditions or short messages for users? Which template should be modified?

I'm using vBadvanced. I have created a navbar entry for LDM and the LDM is accessed without a problem from inside the forums (linking to mydomain.com/forums/local_links.php?) but the link at the vBadvanced is linking to mydomain.com/local_links.php? :ermm:

[EasyTarget]

thanks for the updates andrew. I'll be sure to test it out more tonight, but one thing that might be handy is a confimation notice for the delete button. Sometimes I accidentally hit the wrong button and I'd hate to lose something that way.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by EasyTarget

thanks for the updates andrew. I'll be sure to test it out more tonight, but one thing that might be handy is a confimation notice for the delete button. Sometimes I accidentally hit the wrong button and I'd hate to lose something that way.

good point - especially on the 'mass edit' delete!