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.

[SpankMe]

I've upgraded from version 1.01 and the upgrade doesn't appear to have modified the dB correctly as I get:

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'link.numrate' in 'field list'

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by SpankMe

I've upgraded from version 1.01 and the upgrade doesn't appear to have modified the dB correctly as I get:


MySQL Error : Unknown column 'link.numrate' in 'field list'

Wow, version 1.01 - long time ago.

I tried doing a clean install of 1.0 onto a VB3.0 database, then upgraded to VB 3.5 and LDM 2.0.1 and everything has run fine for me, including creating/updating the ratings table.

Question - did you use the new product installation process via the VB admin CP or did you just follow the old procedure of droppping the code in the VB directories?

If no joy, maybe you could backup the local_links* tables from your database and email them to me (ad_rodin at noos.fr)

[SpankMe]

I did the new product installation process via the VB admin CP. No problem. I just added the columns manually and all ok. Thanks anyway.

[TTG]

Installed and works well .. very useful addition.

I am using this extra item which certainly saves time in adding to the database of links, however, the code seems to disable the scroll bars in IE6 .. anyone else having the same problems.

[lttcoder]

is it possible to add images to description. or links to image.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by lttcoder

is it possible to add images to description. or links to image.

There are two ways. You are free to include IMG tags (or any other BBCodes) within individual descriptions. That is very flexible but you may not get a systematic layout if the images are different sizes.

Alternatively, you can go to the product's admin settings page and set the parameter link_imagesize. In that case, when you create the link/download, you also specify a thumbnail file/url, which is displayed, rescaled to link_imagesize pixels in size at the left of the entry. This requires that your php installation has the GD2 library available.

[Boofo]

What did you update yesterday for this, sir?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by TTG

Installed and works well .. very useful addition.

I am using this extra item which certainly saves time in adding to the database of links, however, the code seems to disable the scroll bars in IE6 .. anyone else having the same problems.

You've probably got a space character in your Javascript. Slave warned about this - VB.org has introduced some unwanted spaces.

Make sure that your Javascript url says "scrollbars=1" not "scrollbar s=1"

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Boofo

What did you update yesterday for this, sir?

Just the text - I noticed I'd missed out something.

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Just the text - I noticed I'd missed out something.

Oh, you mean in the first post?