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.

[ConKien]

If I want to add a right/left colum just to display the category, how should I modify to do so? Would someone please give me a head start?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by ConKien

If I want to add a right/left colum just to display the category, how should I modify to do so? Would someone please give me a head start?

Where do you want the column to appear? On all pages on your board or just inside LDM? And do you want to move the information that is currently in the category table at the top of the LDM display to the side, or are you wanting to display something else, e.g. the top-level category index?

[agiacosa]

I've changed the Links and Downloads Manager phrase to something else. However, in WOL, it still shows as Links and Downloads Manager. I can't seem to find the phrase that handles that. Is this hardcoded somewhere?

Thanks.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by agiacosa

I've changed the Links and Downloads Manager phrase to something else. However, in WOL, it still shows as Links and Downloads Manager. I can't seem to find the phrase that handles that. Is this hardcoded somewhere?

Thanks.

Unfortunately, in 2.1.0, this is hard coded in a plugin - I need to figure out how to grab uncached phrases from the database. You can change it either by editing the main product installer and then reinstalling or by going to your VB admin/Plugin system/Plugin Manager. In either case, you need to edit the plugin called Links and Downloads Manager - Handle Who's Online which is hooked into online_location_unknown.

You will find three lines in this plugin which look like this:

$userinfo['action'] = "Viewing Links and Downloads Manager";
...
$userinfo['action'] = "Listening to Content from Links and Downloads Manager";
...
$userinfo['action'] = "Viewing Links and Downloads Manager";

Change the text as you wish. I'll try to fix this in the next release.

[agiacosa]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Unfortunately, in 2.1.0, this is hard coded in a plugin - I need to figure out how to grab uncached phrases from the database. You can change it either by editing the main product installer and then reinstalling or by going to your VB admin/Plugin system/Plugin Manager. In either case, you need to edit the plugin called Links and Downloads Manager - Handle Who's Online which is hooked into online_location_unknown.

You will find three lines in this plugin which look like this:

$userinfo['action'] = "Viewing Links and Downloads Manager";
...
$userinfo['action'] = "Listening to Content from Links and Downloads Manager";
...
$userinfo['action'] = "Viewing Links and Downloads Manager";

Change the text as you wish. I'll try to fix this in the next release.

Thanks.

I'll wait rather than dive into the code.

[Dsyn11]

Hey Andrew, me again.

I set link_imagesize to 300, but I want that to be resize WIDTH. I want HEIGHT to be resized to 75. Any way to restrict both vertical and horizontal? Thanks!


David

[ConKien]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Where do you want the column to appear? On all pages on your board or just inside LDM? And do you want to move the information that is currently in the category table at the top of the LDM display to the side, or are you wanting to display something else, e.g. the top-level category index?

I want to make the category itself to be one column and the rest of LDM just like it is. I just want this column to appear inside LDM, not on every page of my website.

Thanks,
ConKien

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Dsyn11

Hey Andrew, me again.

I set link_imagesize to 300, but I want that to be resize WIDTH. I want HEIGHT to be resized to 75. Any way to restrict both vertical and horizontal? Thanks!


David

Not in the current version, unless you edit the file local_resize.php:

around line 148, these two lines:

$thumb = ImageCreateTrueColor($thumb_w,$thumb_h);
imagecopyresized($thumb,$im,0,0,0,0,$thumb_w,$thumb_h,$old_x,$old_y);

You need to set thumb_x and thumb_h to the width and height you require. This of course will be a semi-permanent change. Will think about this for 2.1.1 - the reason for having only one parameter was so that images maintain their aspect ratios.

[EasyTarget]

just a small spelling bug in the administer settings page under upload_filetypes
change:Filetypes that can uploaded
to:
Filetypes that can be uploaded

[Annie^.^]

Problem with your hack. When users are adding banners to the links after a while when you click on the banner it won't take you to the website it will just open the banner in a new window. Any idea what causes this?