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.

[lanc3lot]

Excellent support indeed mate

[high]* lanc3lot is going to see what u just said [/high]

[Nam]

hi Andrew, I'm not sure if this is eays or hard, but since the feature that make the jukebox resize automatically depend in video screen size is not possible, I wonder if I can make a wmv file is not playable using jukebox but downloadable only. So far the only way I can think of is zip the file, any other way?

P.S I haven't tested it, but does the script support download manager such as getright, flashget?

[kjmz]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

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.

Can I just make one or something like that? Also the code does work but it doesn't actually change the URL. It just redirects.

[Wildthinks]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

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

Hi,

i'm wondering that i dont add links or cats because the links are left.
Have somebody a hint for me, how can i add links/cat - menu ?
In the forum left also.

i installed the german version.

Thank you
thomas

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by kjmz

Can I just make one or something like that? Also the code does work but it doesn't actually change the URL. It just redirects.

Can you send me a PM with an admin username and password to your board - I want to find out what you are using as web server, then maybe I can answer the question.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Nam

hi Andrew, I'm not sure if this is eays or hard, but since the feature that make the jukebox resize automatically depend in video screen size is not possible, I wonder if I can make a wmv file is not playable using jukebox but downloadable only. So far the only way I can think of is zip the file, any other way?

Just remove wmv from the list in the admin setting musicbox_filetypes

Originally Posted by Nam

P.S I haven't tested it, but does the script support download manager such as getright, flashget?

I haven't tested this - sorry

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Wildthinks

Hi,

i'm wondering that i dont add links or cats because the links are left.
Have somebody a hint for me, how can i add links/cat - menu ?
In the forum left also.

i installed the german version.

Thank you
thomas

Sorry, I'm not understanding your question - maybe in German?

[Wachtmeister]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Sorry, I'm not understanding your question - maybe in German?

I answer in german, because i had the same problem.

Du musst als Admin angemeldet sein und dann in die Hauptkategorie wechseln. Dann wieder auf Kategorien klicken und dort kannst du dann neue Kategorien anlegen.

Um neue Links anzulegen, musst du zuerst in die entsprechende Kategorie wechseln und dann erscheint der Link "Link hinzuf?gen". Sobald du deine Kategorien angelegt hast, erscheint der Link. Ich hatte das gleiche Verst?ndnisproblem

Hope it is the correct answer.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Wachtmeister

I answer in german, because i had the same problem.

Du musst als Admin angemeldet sein und dann in die Hauptkategorie wechseln. Dann wieder auf Kategorien klicken und dort kannst du dann neue Kategorien anlegen.

Um neue Links anzulegen, musst du zuerst in die entsprechende Kategorie wechseln und dann erscheint der Link "Link hinzuf?gen". Sobald du deine Kategorien angelegt hast, erscheint der Link. Ich hatte das gleiche Verst?ndnisproblem

Hope it is the correct answer.

I thinks we are understanding each other!

Step 1 - install LDM
Step 2 - log in as Admin (you must already be logged in as Admin to install LDM) and go to local_links.php
Step 3 - Select Categories/Add Category (Kategorien/Kategorie Hinzufugen) and create a category
Repeat as often as you want
Step 4 - Now you can go to any category and use Add Link (Link Hinzufegen) to add links

Two screenshots attached - the menu bar on the LDM home page and within a category

[LoOnEyToOnZ]

Hi some of my members are having problems downloading from the system... and i've set permissions to allow everyone to access the links. Their problem is that the download title is not even linked. Any idea?