Change "Add to cart" button to "Download" button instead?

[m_mbarakota]

i had a library selling e-books
some for free and i wish that "FREE products" can be directly downloaded without add to cart then checkout process

if anyone can help me to change "Add to cart" button to "Download" Button
sure not the button picture only, but the link button redirect to.

OR
if it can't be done to some products Only
how to make it for "ALL PRODUCTS" as i can setup an ordinary zen cart for the paid products
and another one for all free products

Or
suggest a script to me that looks like zen cart , contain admin panel and easy as zen cart, and let users download each free product directly from a link in the page without add to cart and check out process


i know it's a complex lil bit lol but thx anyway

[m_mbarakota]

i had a library selling e-books
some for free and i wish that "FREE products" can be directly downloaded without add to cart then checkout process

if anyone can help me to change "Add to cart" button to "Download" Button
sure not the button picture only, but the link button redirect to.

OR
if it can't be done to some products Only
how to make it for "ALL PRODUCTS" as i can setup an ordinary zen cart for the paid products
and another one for all free products

Or
suggest a script to me that looks like zen cart , contain admin panel and easy as zen cart, and let users download each free product directly from a link in the page without add to cart and check out process


i know it's a complex lil bit lol but thx anyway

[kobra]

Duplicate posting is frowned upon

Other post

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=118132

[sunflowertami]

I had a similar dilemma when I started my online store. Selling digital charts and also giving out some for free. Finally I decided to just put them all together as a document product. The data that I get out of this is, which free ones are most downloaded and this can guide me on what people want. A valuable information to guide me in what else to offer on the items being sold.

On the other hand, if you really do not want the free product to go through a cart the simplest way to do it is to create a document general and add a button download onto the text of the description.

Code would be something like this:
<input type="button" name="button" value="Download File"
onclick="window.open('../path to your file/filename.pdf', 'download'); return false;">