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 kadafi_alive

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

Thanks - there was a small bug in the code, which will be fixed with the next release

[harry1951]

Andrew question: Are the menuitems:
Links and Downloads
Settings
Permissions
Categories
Statistics
Import and Export
also phrased, because I can't find them in Language and phrases

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by harry1951

Andrew question: Are the menuitems:
Links and Downloads
Settings
Permissions
Categories
Statistics
Import and Export
also phrased, because I can't find them in Language and phrases

Yes, the menu items are phrased with phrase names ll_menu_XXX, as follows:

ll_menu_addcat Add Category
ll_menu_addlink Add Link
ll_menu_admcats Categories
ll_menu_admimex Import and Export
ll_menu_admin Administer
ll_menu_admperm Permissions
ll_menu_admset Settings
ll_menu_admstat Statistics
ll_menu_cat Categories
ll_menu_editcat Edit Category
ll_menu_home Home Category
ll_menu_mod Moderate
ll_menu_search Search
ll_menu_show Show

etc

[harry1951]

Yes, they have been translated, but I mean the items on the blue-buttons in the ACP. These 6 I can not find

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by harry1951

Yes, they have been translated, but I mean the items on the blue-buttons in the ACP. These 6 I can not find

cpnav_xlinks.xml in the includes/xml subdirectory

[harry1951]

I saw that they were hard coded... Can you do it in the next release like this..
<navoption>
<phrase>Settings</phrase>
<link>../local_links_admin.php?set=settings.php?</link>
</navoption>
So it can be translated without changing the original code

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by harry1951

I saw that they were hard coded... Can you do it in the next release like this..
<navoption>
<phrase>Settings</phrase>
<link>../local_links_admin.php?set=settings.php?</link>
</navoption>
So it can be translated without changing the original code

I need to figure out how the xml files pick up phrases - there's a couple of other parts of VBulletin where I haven't figured out the phrasing process - probably straightforward.

Thanks

[harry1951]

I will modify it for you, test it and upload it here

[lanc3lot]

Hm, cant figured out how can i have a full image (and thumbnails) to the files. When i press edit or i add a new link, there is no any field to add one

Also, when someone who hasnt permission to see the files, goes there, maybe would be better to show a download link and when he press it, he have a page that saying that he is not registered therefore cant see the files

Thats all for now, great hack it seems till now

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by lanc3lot

Hm, cant figured out how can i have a full image (and thumbnails) to the files. When i press edit or i add a new link, there is no any field to add one

Go to the LDM admin settings page and set *link_imagesize* to a non-zero value. Then the image field will appear on the add link/edit link pages

Originally Posted by lanc3lot

Also, when someone who hasnt permission to see the files, goes there, maybe would be better to show a download link and when he press it, he have a page that saying that he is not registered therefore cant see the files

Again, LDM admin:

Permissions *can_see_protected_links_on_portal* selected user groups can see all links/categories even if the forums-based permission denies them access.

Setting *protected_link* defines how the linkbit displays links that the user is not allowed to access.

You can use these to make everything visible and control what happens when unauthorised users try to access a link