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 EasyTarget

is it possible to have 2 instances of this hack on the same forum?

I'm wondering if that way I can have one forum act as a link to the normal links setup which I would use to link to other sites and then another forum act as a link to the short bit one which I could use for a files database.

It will be difficult to achieve this without changing the code. I'll take a look to see how this could best be achieved.

[Slave]

Originally Posted by EasyTarget

is it possible to have 2 instances of this hack on the same forum?

I'm wondering if that way I can have one forum act as a link to the normal links setup which I would use to link to other sites and then another forum act as a link to the short bit one which I could use for a files database.

Just have 2 main cats .. and then link each forum link directly to those cats ..

Call one cat "Links" and the other cat "Downloads" .. this would enable people to swap between the 2 main cats easily too

(just a suggestion )

[EasyTarget]

thanks andrew

and @ slave.. I can have 2 main cats but they have to be the same template as far as I can tell.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by EasyTarget

thanks andrew

and @ slave.. I can have 2 main cats but they have to be the same template as far as I can tell.

They can have different styles - each category can be assigned its own style.

[EasyTarget]

style meaning the board styles right? I can't like make one cat = links_linkbit (fieldset style) and another = links_linkbit_short (abbreviated two-stage style) can I? If I can now do this I'm sorry I overlooked it. I was away for a bit and haven't caught up on everything.

[Benj]

hi andrew i was wondering if would be possible to add support so the posters profile picture could be shown in the linkbit template ??

cheers

[Darat]

Hi

I've installed this in my dev form prior to going live with it. Looks like a fantastic add-on but I am having a problem with thumbnails being displayed (GD2 is installed correctly).

There are some previous posts in this thread that bring up thumbnail problems but none seem to solve my problem. I can use [img] tags and if I enable html <img src> and the pictures show up.

This is what is displayed:

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Darat

Hi

I've installed this in my dev form prior to going live with it. Looks like a fantastic add-on but I am having a problem with thumbnails being displayed (GD2 is installed correctly).

There are some previous posts in this thread that bring up thumbnail problems but none seem to solve my problem. I can use [img] tags and if I enable html <img src> and the pictures show up.

This is what is displayed:

Take a look on the LDM admin page - the little box towards the bottom left of each page - what are the settings for *allow_url_fopen* and cURL? If both are off, you will not be able to get at these thumbnails (even though the img tags will work). If either or both setting is on, then it should work - let me know.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by benj

hi andrew i was wondering if would be possible to add support so the posters profile picture could be shown in the linkbit template ??


cheers

I'll take a look

[Darat]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Take a look on the LDM admin page - the little box towards the bottom left of each page - what are the settings for *allow_url_fopen* and cURL? If both are off, you will not be able to get at these thumbnails (even though the img tags will work). If either or both setting is on, then it should work - let me know.

It says:
allow_url_fopen Yes
cURL Yes
GD2 Yes