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.

[Wachtmeister]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

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

Thank you. very much!

Something like "Which style to use in LDM default" would do it, but you probalby understodd my question/wish

[kadafi_alive]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

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

No. When someone reports a 'bad link', the format shows like that in my email.

[kjmz]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

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

I don't have http.conf all I have is .htaccess

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

SUGGESTION:

BULK UPLOADS!!!

[yessir]

I tried searching this thread (it's long).

Does this extension handle link security by masking the download or link URL?

[lanc3lot]

Hello again, the following is mainly for users that use this hack, for have a Downloads Database
If u are any out there, please provide me a link of your forum so i can see how it works a bit (but only for a downloads database, not for the links part)

Thnx Andreas again, just searching it a bit more before installing

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by kjmz

I don't have http.conf all I have is .htaccess

AS far as I know - if you are using apache - there must be an http.conf somewhere! Can you check what web server you are using?

I used your code in an (apache) .htaccess and it works fine for me.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by roscoe36

I tried searching this thread (it's long).

Does this extension handle link security by masking the download or link URL?

Absolutely. You can also turn the masking off if you need to.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by 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.

good!

Originally Posted by Alfa1

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?

I need to do some work on that code - let me think about it.

Originally Posted by Alfa1

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.

How did you do the import? When you import the Dutch LDM phrases, you must tell VB to overwrite the existing language, not create a new one. (Since the file only has new phrases, it doesn't actually overwrite anything.) I have set up my test board this way with everything correctly in Dutch.

[Alfa1]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

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

Ah, I misunderstood you and imported it as a seperate language. Thanks.