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.

[Benj]

andrew sorry just got my test board back up and running. i would like uploads to be placed in forumdir/uploads what do i put as the values for upload_dir and local_file_root

tA

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by benj

andrew sorry just got my test board back up and running. i would like uploads to be placed in forumdir/uploads what do i put as the values for upload_dir and local_file_root


tA

You can try putting upload_dir to forumdir/uploads and leaving local_file_root empty, or you can try putting upload_dir to forumdir and local_file_root to uploads

[Benj]

i was wondering if it would be easy for you to write this into the player so you could play more than one track at a time maybe like http://benj.webeyedentity.co.uk/uplo...play&id=1&id=2

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by benj

i was wondering if it would be easy for you to write this into the player so you could play more than one track at a time maybe like http://benj.webeyedentity.co.uk/uplo...play&id=1&id=2

No username and password, so I can't take a look

[Benj]

sorry the link was an example i would like to be able to play more than one track thou the juke box at anyone time. so for example adding &id=1&id=2 to a url would play tracks id 1 and 2 in a kinda play list.. the idea for my purposes is that users can play all there favorite tracks in a kinda playlist. obviously this is only good for people who are using LDM for media.

what you think easy to do or ?

thanks benj

[ZED28]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

I use both approaches on my official site. Forums are used as a temporary holding space, and LDM as a 'library'

Bingo! That's exactly it. I'll always want the downloads listed and accessable but won't wanna talk about them all the time - only when they're fresh. And to be honest, that's how I've always used them, I just needed that analogy!

Just for a comparison to how a site works without this mod, the official Live For Speed site used vBulletin also. The skins are usually posted as inline attachments or external links. Navigating through this to find a skin, click the link, view it, find the next - well, you get the idea, it's frustrating. This mod is pretty much exactly what I needed for storing "easily accessable" files. And you can't argue with the search system Andy has implemented, very powerful!

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by benj

sorry the link was an example i would like to be able to play more than one track thou the juke box at anyone time. so for example adding &id=1&id=2 to a url would play tracks id 1 and 2 in a kinda play list.. the idea for my purposes is that users can play all there favorite tracks in a kinda playlist. obviously this is only good for people who are using LDM for media.

what you think easy to do or ?

thanks benj

I'll think ...

[Nam]

Andrew, new suggestion: mirror link. This would be optional though, when enable it, the owner can second filed with differe URL for mirror link.

Btw, the estimated for stable 2.1.1? I'm so excited to use it.

[EasyTarget]

good idea on the mirror.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Nam

Andrew, new suggestion: mirror link. This would be optional though, when enable it, the owner can second filed with differe URL for mirror link.

Btw, the estimated for stable 2.1.1? I'm so excited to use it.

I got carried away with implementing some new things, so 2.1.1 will become 2.1.2, again as beta, in a few days time.