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]

thanks for the XML "andrew you are the man" look forward to future releases....

btw whats this word assosiation user profile thing on about i dont really get it ? cheers

benj

[Dsyn11]

having trouble:

installed all files to proper directories (checked each over 5 times)... imported the english *.xml file. ran fine.

clicked on the local_links.php file, and it's empty.....

http://www.propcircle.com/local_links.php

I've tried everything I can think of. I have vB 3.5.1

any help is greatly appreciated!

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Dsyn11

having trouble:

installed all files to proper directories (checked each over 5 times)... imported the english *.xml file. ran fine.

clicked on the local_links.php file, and it's empty.....

http://www.propcircle.com/local_links.php

I've tried everything I can think of. I have vB 3.5.1

any help is greatly appreciated!

Do you have some sort of mod_rewrite function working on your site? The admin link (http://www.propcircle.com/local_links_admin.php) takes me correctly to a "login" page". Links to http://www.propcircle.com/local_links.php?action=xyz are redirecting to pages http://www.propcircle.com/local_links.php with no parameters.

[Dsyn11]

Thank you for replying and helping me with this.

edit: no, I don't have mod_rewrite. That field is blank. :ermm:

[Bschneider]

Hi AndewD,

I just installed the LDM and I have one problem. I followed the instructions for the navbar:
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To integrate LDM within your site, you need to provide a link to local_links.php:

- You can include this in your forums main navigation bar by editing
the navbar template. Find, e.g.

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="faq.php$session[sessionurl_q]" accesskey="5">$vbphrase[faq]</a></td>

and insert

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="local_links.php">Links</a></td>

then save the updated template
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My site is VB 3.51 and the forums are located at root/forumsdir/, which is where the files were uploaded. The problem I am having is that the LINK is trying to go to root/ and not root/forumsdir/.

When you logon and then logoff that is when the LINK is correct. How do I fix this? I tried searching but no luck and I really don't want to read all 624 posts.

Thanks in advance!
-Bryan

The website is www.tampahdtv.com

[Dsyn11]

$5 if you can get it working.

[Benj]

andrew any ideas if there would be a way to get the jukebox to be a flash player. i dont want you to make one obviously just want to know if its possible with the current settup of LDM?

[TundraSoul]

Bryan,

You simply need to add the "forums root" directory in front of the filename.

Like this:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="tpahd-vb/local_links.php">Links</a></td>

and that should work.

Optionally, you may place the whole site URL in there, like you did with the other links in the nav bar.

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="http://www.tampahdtv.com/tpahd-vb/local_links.php">Links</a></td>

Either should work.

Originally Posted by Bschneider

Hi AndewD,

I just installed the LDM and I have one problem. I followed the instructions for the navbar:
------------------------------
To integrate LDM within your site, you need to provide a link to local_links.php:

- You can include this in your forums main navigation bar by editing
the navbar template. Find, e.g.

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="faq.php$session[sessionurl_q]" accesskey="5">$vbphrase[faq]</a></td>

and insert

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="local_links.php">Links</a></td>

then save the updated template
-----------------------------------
My site is VB 3.51 and the forums are located at root/forumsdir/, which is where the files were uploaded. The problem I am having is that the LINK is trying to go to root/ and not root/forumsdir/.

When you logon and then logoff that is when the LINK is correct. How do I fix this? I tried searching but no luck and I really don't want to read all 624 posts.

Thanks in advance!
-Bryan

The website is www.tampahdtv.com

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Dsyn11

$5 if you can get it working.

Dsyn11, i"ve been away, so sorry for not replying.

Send me a PM with a username and password for an admin account on your board, and I'll take a look. Keep you dollars - I'm sure you have better things to spend them on.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by benj

andrew any ideas if there would be a way to get the jukebox to be a flash player. i dont want you to make one obviously just want to know if its possible with the current settup of LDM?

Take a look at http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/kn...cfm?id=tn_4150

I think this explains the EMBED and OBJECT tags you need to put into the links_play template.

Let us know if it works