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 Darat

It says:
allow_url_fopen Yes
cURL Yes
GD2 Yes

Then things should work. Is your dev forum available? Can you PM me an admin account, password and url? I'll take a look.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Darat

It says:
allow_url_fopen Yes
cURL Yes
GD2 Yes

David, pls can you upload the attached into your forums dir and let me know

[civil78]

I have this problem...

I would like to hide any new file of a category from the "New Links".

I try to set the hide/unhide button in edit form of the file ... and it works? but the problem is that only the administrators can view the file... simple users can't see this file.

I want to give the authority only in a UserGroup to download these files and the other users just to see the files (not to download).

For Example

Main Category
-->1st Category
--> 1stSubCategory1
--> 1stSubCategory2
--> 1stSubCategory3

-->2nd Category
--> 2ndSubCategory1
--> 2ndSubCategory2
--> 2ndSubCategory3

Now I have 2 groups... the Users and the PowerUsers.

I want to give the permissions to Users and to the PowerUsers to view the list of all the files, but only the PoweUsers can download the files under the category "2nd Category", the "1st Category" can be viewed and downloaded from all the users.

Otherwise, if i add new files under of the category "2nd Category" i don?t want to show it in the "New Links".

I know that?s a difficult problem... but please if someone knows how I can to that please tell me...

Most of the 2 problems that?s important for me is the 2nd .. How can I hide from the "New Links" some files that appear under one category?

Thanks
civil78
http://www.greektvsubs.gr/cmps_index.php

[AndrewD]

Choose (or create) one of your board's forums which has the required permissions - i.e. normal users can't access it but power users can.

For those links that you want to be available only to your power users, 'associate' (via the links creation form or via admin/categories/mass edit) these links with this forum.

If you want all users to see the links even if they can't access them, give them can_see_protected_links_on_portal permission via the LDM admin permissions page.

[Slave]

Just spotted something ..

Not sure if this is a bug, by design, or just weirdness going on

In the old 3.0 version, if you already had a link and you updated it, it would show as a new link - both on the links page, as well as via the cpms module. (it showed multiple times in the cpms module, once for each cat it was in)

I've just updated a link in the 3.5 version (added the link to another cat) and nothing showed as new, either on the links page or in the cpms "new" module.

Is this by design AndrewD? .. if it is, is there a way/setting to change this behaviour?

I guess the way "I" think it should work is that it shows as new in the cat you've added to the link and not new in all the other cats it's already in. (I know in the 3.0 version it showed it new in all the cats) ..

What do you think?

Thinking about it, I think I suggested, at one point in the 3.0 thread, about having an "Updated" flag against a link if indeed it was updated. Did this ever get added to the system? and if not could it be?

So, in short, could we have an updated link show "Updated" in cats that it's already in .. and also show "New" in cats that it's just been added to. (while only showing once in the cmps new module)

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Slave

Just spotted something ..

Not sure if this is a bug, by design, or just weirdness going on

In the old 3.0 version, if you already had a link and you updated it, it would show as a new link - both on the links page, as well as via the cpms module. (it showed multiple times in the cpms module, once for each cat it was it)

I've just updated a link in the 3.5 version (added the link to another cat) and nothing showed as new, either on the links page or in the cpms "new" module.

Is this by design AndrewD? .. if it is, is there a way/setting to change this behaviour?

I guess the way "I" think it should work is that it shows as new in the cat you've added to the link and not new in all the other cats it's already in. (I know in the 3.0 version it showed it new in all the cats) ..

What do you think?

Thinking about it, I think I suggested, at one point in the 3.0 thread, about having an "Updated" flag against a link if indeed it was updated. Did this ever get added to the system? and if not could it be?

So, in short, could we have an updated link show "Updated" in cats that it's already in .. and also show "New" in cats that it's just been added to. (while only showing once in the cmps new module)

As I recall, someone felt that the 3.0 behaviour was not correct so I changed it. But my memory is not what I seem to recall that it used to be (if you follow me).

There is only one timestamp in the database for each link, so the question is whether this gets refreshed when the entry gets edited. Since there is only one timestamp, it's difficult to separate the change in one category from others.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

David, pls can you upload the attached into your forums dir and let me know

David, did you see my PM?

[Slave]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

As I recall, someone felt that the 3.0 behaviour was not correct so I changed it. But my memory is not what I seem to recall that it used to be (if you follow me).

There is only one timestamp in the database for each link, so the question is whether this gets refreshed when the entry gets edited. Since there is only one timestamp, it's difficult to separate the change in one category from others.

hmm .. difficult one then

Any chance of a on/off type setting for the 2 ways of doing it? either shows as new or not.

or .. have an updated timestamp column in the db table, so you can show both when a link was first added and the last time it was updated .. therefore allowing you to have an "updated" flag against a link. You could then have a setting to allow you to show these links as new or not on both the links page, as well as the cpms module.

You could also have a couple of settings to choose which colour to show these flags .. ie .. have the "new" text show as red .. and the "updated" text show as yellow (as an example)

Just an idea

[civil78]

Originally Posted by civil78

I would like to hide any new file of a category from the "New Links".
...

...if i add new files under of the category "2nd Category" i don?t want to show it in the "New Links".

...

Most of the 2 problems that?s important for me is the 2nd .. How can I hide from the "New Links" some files that appear under one category?
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AndrewD thank's for this usefull information, but somethink else can you tell me if I can hide some files from the "New Links" in the main page, not from the users, just in main page. For example if i add a new file in the "2nd Category", i dont want to show it in the "New Links" Module in the main page. See the pictures to understand what i mean.

"New Links" Before


"New Links" After



Thanks
civil78
http://www.greektvsubs.gr/cmps_index.php

P.S. Can I install this Mod, two times, my problem exactly is that I have a translation team management site for TV series, so I need to show in the "New Links" only the Greek Translated subs and at the 2nd category the English Subs only for the translators and I dont want to show this subs in the "New Links", but also I want to show the free for traslation English subs for the new users without to belong in a team, your platfrom is great but I have to solve this problem.

[GTAce]

Originally Posted by EasyTarget

after a fresh install I found it difficult to figure out how to add a category. The Add category button/option didn't show up under categories ever until I clicked on the forum bit location for ldm. I doesn't show up in administer or moderate, so just a suggestion to help us newbies.. make it so the add category shows up on other pages as well

I can't figure this out either - how exactly did you find you way around this?

When I got to Admininster > Categories, this is what I see



any ideas?