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.

[Jaynesh]

Ive just installed the hack on my forum, Fantastic and very powerful hack.
When a user uploads a Music or video file how will i make it so that it does not download but opens a player on the browser to listen to it online...

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Jaynesh

When a user uploads a Music or video file how will i make it so that it does not download but opens a player on the browser to listen to it online...

I added a clean way to do this in 2.1.1, which is still in beta but has had no reports of problems.

a) Enable the Jukebox (point file_icons_dir at the set of filetype icons, set the musicbox_* settings appropriately and provide mimetype information in the vb attachment table for these filetypes)
b) Set can_play_musicbox permissions in LDM for the usergroups in question and unset can_save_jukebox for these groups.

[ZED28]

Hey Andy, I've added a bunch of uploads on my site and am using the vBAdvanced front end so thought I would try your modules out for "hot" and "new" items. The hot module displays fine in either the left or right column but the new module throws everything out of place - all the other modules wrap etc.

Also, the hotlink at the top of either module - for example the one that says "Hot Links" fails saying "Category does not exist". The link it points to is this...

http://www.lfsresource.com/local_links.php?catid=-7

I get the same problem with these links in the summary page of the downlads area. But the drop-down links under the "Show" menu work just fine. The link for the Hot items under the drop down menu is different...

http://www.lfsresource.com/local_lin...h.php?catid=-7

Other than that, it's working really well!

[Jaynesh]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

I added a clean way to do this in 2.1.1, which is still in beta but has had no reports of problems.

a) Enable the Jukebox (point file_icons_dir at the set of filetype icons, set the musicbox_* settings appropriately and provide mimetype information in the vb attachment table for these filetypes)
b) Set can_play_musicbox permissions in LDM for the usergroups in question and unset can_save_jukebox for these groups.

Fantasic, cheers mate worked great.

Whats the name of the template for that page where the player is?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Jaynesh

Whats the name of the template for that page where the player is?

links_play

[Jaynesh]

Little problem, the files arent being played, they open up and everything but they just dont play.

[AndrewD]

[QUOTE=ZED28]Hey Andy, I've added a bunch of uploads on my site and am using the vBAdvanced front end so thought I would try your modules out for "hot" and "new" items. The hot module displays fine in either the left or right column but the new module throws everything out of place - all the other modules wrap etc.

OK, I'll take a look

Originally Posted by ZED28

Also, the hotlink at the top of either module - for example the one that says "Hot Links" fails saying "Category does not exist". The link it points to is this...

http://www.lfsresource.com/local_links.php?catid=-7

I get the same problem with these links in the summary page of the downlads area. But the drop-down links under the "Show" menu work just fine. The link for the Hot items under the drop down menu is different...

http://www.lfsresource.com/local_lin...h.php?catid=-7

Other than that, it's working really well!

Yes, I split the code with a recent release - as I don't use vbAdvanced, I tend to miss these things - when the catid is negative, the urls should point to local_links_search.php

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Jaynesh

Little problem, the files arent being played, they open up and everything but they just dont play.

Have you got the mimetype info set correctly in your main VB/attachments/extensions and sizes?

for example, mp3 - Content-type: audio/mpeg

etc, etc

[Jaynesh]

Hmm.. Could you please tell me how to set it correctly.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Jaynesh

Hmm.. Could you please tell me how to set it correctly.

mimetypes are used so that the browser and other software knows what to do with what they are being given. Each filetype that you want LDM to handle corrently as a download, and upload or a media file needs to have an entry in the VB attachments table. Take a look at the entries that are set by the VB team themselves - each file type is set up with the following information:

Extension (i.e. mp3, etc)
Max Filesize(in bytes) (can be left at 0 to set no limit)
Maximum Width (in pixels, for image files)
Maximum Height(in pixels, 600 for example)
Mime Type
Display thumbnail for this type? (image files)
Open this attachment in a new browser window?
Enabled

The only bits that LDM cares about are the extension, the max filesize (for uploads) and the mimetype

Here are some standard mimetypes:

bmp Content-type: image/bmp
doc Content-type: application/msword
gif Content-type: image/gif
jpe, jpeg, jpg Content-type: image/jpeg
m3u Content-type: audio/x-mpegurl
mov Content-type: video/quicktime
mpg, mpeg Content-type: video/mpeg
mp3 Content-type: audio/mpeg
pdf Content-type: application/pdf
png Content-type: image/png
ram Content-type: audio/x-pn-realaudio
rm Content-type: audio/x-realaudio
rmvb Content-type: video/x-realaudio
rpm Content-type: audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin
txt Content-type: plain/text
wmv Content-type: video/x-ms-wmv
zip Content-type: application/zip

You can find others at http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/mime-types.shtml