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.

[Mastar]

Will this work on Vb3.51

[Benj]

Originally Posted by Mastar

Will this work on Vb3.51

will it work it looks amazing and works a charm

[Benj]

Originally Posted by kadafi_alive

Yes, exactly, how can I implement that for the jukebox?

Regards

yeah i recon thats a good idea for a future release

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by welo

Quick question here: Been busy and haven't upgraded since 2.0.2. Will I need to go through each subsequent release to get it to the latest version? Or can I just perform the upgrade for 2.1.0?

Just perform the upgrade - it takes you all the way in one go. Maybe hang in there until I put 2.1.0 as the official release (tomorrow/Saturday), as there are some very minor phrasing/menu pieces to fix in the beta.

[welo]

Thanks Andrew. Will wait on that one then.

[Mastar]

Can someone upgrade to work with 3.51 Thanks! Great hack!

[EasyTarget]

small bug? I uploaded a jpg and it included the pic in the listing. (maybe that's how its supposed to work) but then I edited the listing and uploaded an actual zip in place of the .jpg that had been there and it did not upload the file, was left as nothing.

[silurius]

I may have missed this in the thread, but what is supposed to happen when a submitter's login name has changed? I see that the old name is still displayed and does not get updated.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by silurius

I may have missed this in the thread, but what is supposed to happen when a submitter's login name has changed? I see that the old name is still displayed and does not get updated.

You're right, this is how it behaves at the moment. It speeds up the database searches. It needs fixing - I'll put this on the list.

[AndrewD]

I've uploaded version 2.1.0 in the first post of this thread as the new official thread. This consolidates all the changes during the last couple of months, and fixes the minor points reported this week with the test of 2.1.0.

I will continue to work on this, with priority to 'smart searches' - e.g. ability to tie these to user profiles.