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 Alfa1

Yes, this is the problem.

The error mesage is triggered in two situations:

- If the code is unable to create a subdirectory in your uploads directory corresponding to the user who is making the upload
or
- If the code cannot move the uploaded file into that directory once it has created it.

You can check which case is causing the problem by looked in the directory you have specified as your uploads directory. It should contain subdirectories and sub-sub-directories with single digit names, e.g. for a user with userid 36, there should be a directory tree /uploads/3/6, etc.

If these exist, upload a file under your own admin id and check that a new file (it will have a random filename) appears where you expect. If it does, then check that you have given proper permissions to your uploads directory. If not, then try to discover where the files are actually being placed.

Have you, for example, changed the setting of local_file_root (LDM admin page)?

Let me know what you find out, in case there's a bug in LDM.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

I should have formulated my question better: I have installed the Dutch language pack for the forum. I want to add the Dutch language pack for the LDM. Do I add to or replace the Dutch language pack for the forum?

You simply upload the Dutch translation on top of your existing language, i.e. you import it into the Dutch language via the VB admin cp

I'll now add this to the list of installers, so that in future, there is a single Dutch installation pack for LDM

[harry1951]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

I'll now add this to the list of installers, so that in future, there is a single Dutch installation pack for LDM

Keep it also as a language pack because the belgians needs it as language-pack on top of the french installation...

[kjmz]

Originally Posted by kjmz

Nope but it sure does make it look like that.

Has anyone else used .htaccess because I just can't figure it out. Is there anyway I can use http.conf?

Thanks because I can't figure this out.

Okay, I got the directory to redirect to the correct page but the URL doesn't stay Search Engine Friendly.

Here's my code so far:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^local_links/links/(.+)/(.+) /local_links.php?catid=$1&linkid=$2 [R]
RewriteRule ^local_links/links/(.+) /local_links.php?catid=$1 [R]
RewriteRule ^local_links/jump/(.+)/(.+) /local_links.php?action=jump&id=$1&catid=$2 [R]
RewriteRule ^local_links/jump/(.+) /local_links.php?action=jump&id=$1 [R]

The directory links to local_links/links/1 but it will redirect to locallinks.php?catid=1

Anyone know what to do?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by harry1951

Keep it also as a language pack because the belgians needs it as language-pack on top of the french installation...

Pourquoi veux-je assister ces gens qui disent 'septante'?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by kjmz

Okay, I got the directory to redirect to the correct page but the URL doesn't stay Search Engine Friendly.

Here's my code so far:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^local_links/links/(.+)/(.+) /local_links.php?catid=$1&linkid=$2 [R]
RewriteRule ^local_links/links/(.+) /local_links.php?catid=$1 [R]
RewriteRule ^local_links/jump/(.+)/(.+) /local_links.php?action=jump&id=$1&catid=$2 [R]
RewriteRule ^local_links/jump/(.+) /local_links.php?action=jump&id=$1 [R]

The directory links to local_links/links/1 but it will redirect to locallinks.php?catid=1

Anyone know what to do?

I set up a test site with the rewrite rules in my http.conf, as follows

<VirtualHost vb35>
	ServerName vb35
	DocumentRoot "C:/Documents and Settings/andrew/My Documents/Website/vb35"
RewriteEngine on
RewriteLog "c:/program files/apache group/apache/logs/rewrite.log"
RewriteRule local_links/links/(.+)/(.+) local_links.php?catid=$1&amp;linkid=$2 [R]
RewriteRule local_links/links/(.+)      local_links.php?catid=$1 [R]
RewriteRule local_links/jump/(.+)/(.+)  local_links.php?action=jump&amp;id=$1&amp;catid=$2 [R]
RewriteRule local_links/jump/(.+)       local_links.php?action=jump&amp;id=$1 [R]
</VirtualHost>

and this works fine for me.

Your code doesn't work in my http.conf, because of the carets at the start. Not sure if that helps you

[harry1951]

n'oubliez pas 'nenente....'

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Wachtmeister

Sorry, can someone teach me about the following?

I have a default style for my forum called Style 3.5.0:

- Style 3.5.0
--- Sub-Style of 3.5.0
--- Sub-Style of 3.5.0 (fixed)
- Linklist

I now want the Links and Downloadmanager to use the Style "Linklist", not the default style "Style 3.5.0".

I can set this for each category, but the main script local_links.php always uses "Style 3.5.0".

I'm pretty sure, that i've setup LDM to use "Linklist" in version 2.05... I'm not able to tell LDM to use the Style "Linklist" only in every category and all pages. Isn't this possible?

Thank you very much for help.

From what I can see in the code I wrote over the summer, this is not currently possible:
a) the style resetting code checks for a positive category id, i.e. the base category will always show up in your default
b) there is no global setting

I'll add these to the list of things to do.

Andrew

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by kadafi_alive

Hi AndrewD,

Do you know how I can fix the report bug. The current format is:

user( mailto:user@hotmail.com ) has reported this link: http://www.domain.comlocal_links.php...d=403.\r\nThis is the reason that the user gave:\r\n\r\ntestest.

Sorry, I'm not sure what you are asking. Is the message wrong? It looks to me as if someone has set up a link that is missing at least one /? Or maybe I miss something

[Alfa1]

That already explains a lot. The directory's permissions needed to be adjusted. Now it works. That directory is a sub-directory of the local_file_root_prefix. I do not get the monitor_dir to scan a directory outside of the local_file_root_prefix.
Any idea on how to solve this?

BTW I just imported the Dutch Language file, but now users can choose between Dutch for the LDM & the forum, but not both. So they'll either get one part of the screen in Dutch or the other.