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.

[agiacosa]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

See PM:

I moved mp3 from musicbox_filetypes_realplayer to musicbox_filetypes, and all the entries in your music and video category seem to work fine - e.g. your uploaded talk show and an mp3 I added from our test site (see AD test mp3) - plus the videos.

With mp3 sitting in the musicbox_filetypes_realplayer list, it seemed to me that realplayer is trying to obtain a quicktime plugin - not sure why.

I couldn't trigger your error message at all.

Andrew,

When I click on the category title in the main page, I get an error because it is looking for: http://URL to my forum/local_links/links/1

I don't see where in your instructions you call for setting up local_links/links directory. What is wrong?

Thanks.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by agiacosa

Andrew,

When I click on the category title in the main page, I get an error because it is looking for: http://URL to my forum/local_links/links/1

I don't see where in your instructions you call for setting up local_links/links directory. What is wrong?

Thanks.

Looks like you set the seo_friendly parameter (LDM admin/settings) to 1? If so, you need to configure your apache mod_rewrite accordingly. This is explained in the instructions file.

If you don't need this, I suggest leaving seo_friendly =0

Let me know if you still have problems - am happy to take a look, but will need an admin userid to your board.

[agiacosa]

Thanks Andrew. Worked well. Anyway to have Suggest a Category link just like the Add Link?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by agiacosa

Any way to have Suggest a Category link?

If I understand you, users would use this to recommend to the admin that she creates a new category for a particular type of link?

[agiacosa]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

If I understand you, users would use this to recommend to the admin that she creates a new category for a particular type of link?

Yes, that's right. Like in DMOZ.

Also, while I was adding categories, one of them popped up with a red folder icon indicating that it has new entries but there are none. The category is empty.

Did I do something wrong?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by agiacosa

Also, while I was adding categories, one of them popped up with a red folder icon indicating that it has new entries but there are none. The category is empty.Did I do something wrong?

No, categories are flagged red when they are new or when something new is put in them (or when something already in them is edited and the datestamp changed)

[agiacosa]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

No, categories are flagged red when they are new or when something new is put in them (or when something already in them is edited and the datestamp changed)

Ah, got it. Thanks.

And, to be clear with my request. I have a series of categories. I would like a "Suggest New Category" link that allowed a user suggest a new category to the Admin, not necessarily a new type of link.

[CSS59]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Thanks
Will add this to the wish list - do you want columns for both categories and the entries in categories or just categories? And do you want the sort order to go across the page (easy) or down the columns (slightly more work)

I only need columns for the Categories and would like them to sort in alphabetical order going down each column.

Thanks for your help

[Benj]

suggestion: "last downloaded/played items in profile" like a list of last 10 maybe

[TundraSoul]

Here are two similar suggestiosn: Add the ability to use the category names instead of the category ID numbers, for SEO purposes. For instance instead of local_links/links/17 it could read local_links/links/music/

Add SEO ability to paging, and category jumping links.

1,761 links.

Thanks!