How to set up downloadable products?

That would require a lot of thought on the customer's part ...

You are better off setting up 3 Products than to try to setup 1 Product with 9 peices and parts to try to match up ...

Or make 1 Zip for each combination rather than 3 Zips ...

https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=71
How to add downloads/multiple downloads..
details in tutorials/FAQ url above

Thank you for the quick responses., I wanted to offer a club

The first choice would be the entire club with 6 downloads and the second choice would be a lesser value with 3 downloads and the 3rd choice would be another lesser value with 3 downloads. I wanted to know if I could make the three choices, but the options would have the radio buttons selected for the amount downloads, depending upon the selection.

Thank you for all of your suggestions and help.

I just wanted to mark this for reference.

This is part of what I have been working on for a while now.
Ande

scannerman:

I've worked it out. I had to look at OScommerce but hey !

OK for the record... My answer to my question....

problem : I have a product called book1.pdf which I want to sell on the internet via zencart. It is a pdf file of a book.

Here how I did it.

1. zip the pdf file. Its now called book1.zip

2. put book1.zip into ../myshop/download

3. using a ftp prog (I use filezilla) I connect to my website, right click ../myshop/download and set the attributes to 775

4. I create a product in the store via the admin menu/cateories& products
   I call my product "book1" and I tell the world how brilliant it is.

5. I then go to the products attributes menu.

6. stop counting the steps... it doesn't matter

I create a Product Option called (for example) downloadable
I move to the right of the page to Option values, select downloadable and give it and option value of (for example) 'Download: zipped pdf file'

I then go to the bottom of the page : product attributes.

select the product name (book1) set the option name to downloadable
set the option value to 'download:zipped pdf file'
I then put the file name in the filename box (book1.zip)

once saved I tested it by creating a payment method of check/money order and set the order status of this method to processing. Now when I do a test purchase of book 1 and choose check/money order I get the option to download the file straight away. Job done.

The live shop will need to ensure that the customer payment dowesn't get updated to processing untilll the money is the bank or the books can be downloaded for free !

This is my idiots guide... It works for me... please don't ask me to explain it.. it just works.

Thanks to all for pointing me in the right direction.

give me a week and then check out the store

www.wetherby-scanning.co.uk\ebooks

steve the happy bunny:smile:

you guys that know how to do this must be freakin geniuses.. i've worked on this for hours and still can't figure out how to create download.. teh only think i've gotten so far is to move my downloads into the 'download' folder.. I'm a programmer by trade - that's why this is baffling.. there MSUT be simple instructions somewhere??

Did you peek in the Tutorials/FAQs? There are quite a few things about Attributes and Download ... plus there is the Wiki and a search of the forums ...

tyankee:

you guys that know how to do this must be freakin geniuses.. i've worked on this for hours and still can't figure out how to create download.. teh only think i've gotten so far is to move my downloads into the 'download' folder.. I'm a programmer by trade - that's why this is baffling.. there MSUT be simple instructions somewhere??

It definitely isn't user intuitive, and took me a while too.:frusty:

Start by creating an Option Name by clicking on "option names" under "Categories/Products". Option name, for example, can be called "ebook".

Then create an option value also under "categories/products" menu. you do this by selecting the option name "ebook" and then writing in something more specific (say, "Our Ebook" or whatever the title is...or whatever you choose it to be).

Then go to the attributes controller. Select your product near the top and hit display. Scroll down. Select the option name in one of the scroll boxes, and the option value in the other. At the very bottom, type in the exact file name (not the path, unless you created a new folder inside of the downloads folder)....for example ourebook.pdf Now click insert.

IF you did it correctly, there should be a little green dot next to the file name. If you did it incorrectly, there will be a red dot.

Clear as mud?

Good Luck,
Kimberly
https://www.joyfulmomma.org

thank you Kimberly - it worked.. and you explained it so well.. i guess most of the others in here have been using Zen for a long time and it's hard to explain things in simple terms for them..:clap:

Good afternoon all, I've been through the thread, the hints, the internet, etc and my head now hurts, so I'd really appreciate some help to get me heading in the right direction.

I've managed to set up the downloadable attributes, tested a transaction, made payment, and the customer now gets a download button in 'my account'.

When I click on the download button, I get a new browser page (http://localhost/zencart/index.php?main_page=download&order=16&id=3) and the message "Internet explorer cannot display this page..."
The download file in question is an image (.jpg) in the download folder (and only the filename is specified in downloadable products filename).

Attribute settings are: enable downloads: true, redirect:false, streaming:false

Config file settings are:

define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', 'C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/zencart/');

define('DIR_FS_DOWNLOAD', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'download/');
define('DIR_FS_DOWNLOAD_PUBLIC', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'pub/');

It seems like a filenaming problem but I can't find anything obvious.

Running the latest version of zencart, php, and mysql - and my development environment is windows,

Any new direction to head in much appreciated.

Regards,
Phil

Did it all again from scratch and it worked. I guess I can't speell after all! :smile:

Well I'm having same problem as Phil up there and I've been trying to fix this all evening :(

Point is.. it was working fine yesterday and I'm not sure what happened.

So checkout works fine but when i click on download I get a page not found error.
It was working fine yesterday and my test product is not marked as a virtual product
and shipping is set to "No, Normal Shipping Rules".

Attributes are these:
option name = download
option value = zip
download file = nathy_halloweenlabels.zip

Its in download file of course and its got a green circle under Downloads Manager.

I have a clean install of Zen Cart 1.3.8a

The link for my product is http://www.nathy.net/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=68&products_id=185

You have Redirect On or Off?

You have set permissions on /pub to 777?

You are on a windows or unix server?

Hello Ajeh,

You have Redirect On or Off?
ON

You have set permissions on /pub to 777?
Yes

You are on a windows or unix server?
My web host runs UNIX-based operating systems, such as Debian Linux 4.0 on Apache web servers.

I dont know if this matters but I did try to move my download folder to make it more secure like they say in the tutorial and change the path into both configure.php files but it wouldnt work at all so I just put the download folder back where it was and change the path back into both configure.php files as well.

Thanks for the help.
Nathy

What happens if you make a test product with a small test zip file ...

Do small files work?

I want to offer free downloads in my scrapbook shop but when we mark them free we get errors any ideas?

I don't know how to handle this can someone please help? Thanks SDuffer

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /sweetscr_store/pub/.ijfbdvhqehzmgjh/hh_designs_Artic.zip/ on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Ajeh:

What happens if you make a test product with a small test zip file ...

Do small files work?

I tried with a zip that is 1kb and no its not working, I get the same "cant find the page" error. Its like it cant find the download folder :wacko:

Hello Ajeh,

Well I changed the download by setting Download by Redirect to false and Download by streaming to false and yet it wont work.

I tried to download the zip file by giving the right path into my browser and it keep asking me for login so I guess that is good.

:frusty:

Have you checked with your hosting provider to see if they have changed something or need to change something on the server to allow for symbolic links or downloads etc.

It seems odd that it worked the other day and doesn't today ...

I seem to recall a requirement to use the 'absolute path' for the redirect, instead of the usual URL / Domain Name path.

For example:
Use: /home/user_id/public_html/verify/absolute_path.php

Not: http://www.my_domain.com/verify/absolute_path.php

NathyBelle:

Hello Ajeh,

Well I changed the download by setting Download by Redirect to false and Download by streaming to false and yet it wont work.

I tried to download the zip file by giving the right path into my browser and it keep asking me for login so I guess that is good.

:frusty: