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Links and Downloads Manager · **Released**: 06-25-2005

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 · #**532** 11-07-2005, 05:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Jukov

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

Tower of Babel and all that..

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jukov

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?

links_main - you need a conditional test on $viewcatid being equal to -1, which is the base category.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jukov

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:

What have you set as the url for the navbar link? should it look something like $vbulletin->options['bburl']/local_links.php

Jukov · #**533** 11-07-2005, 06:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Tower of Babel and all that..

Yeah, it was nasty...

Quote:

Originally Posted by AndrewD

links_main - you need a conditional test on $viewcatid being equal to -1, which is the base category.

Maybe I'm retarded (which I probably am) but , hmmm... may be some more info? would really appreciate it

Quote:

Originally Posted by AndrewD

What have you set as the url for the navbar link? should it look something like $vbulletin->options['bburl']/local_links.php

local_links.php?$session[sessionurl_q]">links , etc

AndrewD · #**534** 11-07-2005, 06:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jukov

Maybe I'm retarded (which I probably am) but , hmmm... may be some more info? would really appreciate it

Immediately before

PHP Code:


			
<if condition="$viewcattext or $viewcatforum">

include something like

PHP Code:


			
<if condition="$viewcatid==-1">

<tr>

    <td class="alt1">

Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye.. abandon faith all those who enter here<br />

I require your commitment to do X Y and Z

        </td>

<tr>

</if>

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jukov

local_links.php?$session[sessionurl_q]">links , etc

Is vbadvanced sitting in another directory than /forums? You need to for the full url. Try putting $vboptions[bburl]/ in front of local_links.php

Jukov · #**535** 11-07-2005, 06:40 PM

Not the Z ... just not the Z. Ican put up with X and Y but the Z , it's waaay too much!

Thanks, it worked like a charm...

BTW tower of babel and all that, a friend of mine translates the LDM phrases to russian as we speak...

MikeGK · #**536** 11-07-2005, 06:49 PM

Hello AndrewD, I use your download manager version 2.0.4 for VB 3.5gold ..the purpose of using your download system is to host music files on the site and some video files as well, but I notice when download a large file the script only open one concurrent connection per file, is there anyway you can make the download manager script to open up 3 concurrent connection per download? ....while the path is hidden ..
thank you

Mike

PtP · #**537** 11-07-2005, 07:26 PM

Andrew you need to add the new templates to the precache list

links_linkbit_short
links_catjump

I added these two but there may be more that I missed.

sitka · #**538** 11-07-2005, 09:42 PM

where is the prompt to add categories? can't find it

UPDATE: found it finally. wasn't showing up in the ADMINCP.

YES, very nice hack. can you show hottest links or specific category links on forumhome? not with vbadvanced

Allan · #**539** 11-07-2005, 10:57 PM

Very Nice AndrewD

File attach: French language for v 2.0.7RC update

Click Install

AndrewD · #**540** 11-08-2005, 05:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MikeGK

Hello AndrewD, I use your download manager version 2.0.4 for VB 3.5gold ..the purpose of using your download system is to host music files on the site and some video files as well, but I notice when download a large file the script only open one concurrent connection per file, is there anyway you can make the download manager script to open up 3 concurrent connection per download? ....while the path is hidden ..
thank you

Mike

Mike, as per PM:

Thanks - I'll add this to the list of things to think about! - Is the download speed an issue for you? If so, does the problem relate to files coming from your own server or being processed through your server from another site? And what operating system is the server using? If Windows, we discovered a serious performance glitch, which has been corrected in later versions of LDM.

AndrewD · #**541** 11-08-2005, 05:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PtP

Andrew you need to add the new templates to the precache list

links_linkbit_short
links_catjump

I added these two but there may be more that I missed.

Yes, I need to keep the debug switch turned on, don't I! Thanks.

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