Simple link to download possible?

I cannot seem to find this info and am about to leap out of window.. (not really, but I'm frustrated..)

On each product page I want to provide simple links to various downloadable files. I do not want a dropdown menu, radio button, etc. Simply a list of links, each displaying the name of the file (in text form).

Can this be done in Zen Cart?

Would adding link/s to downloadable files, into product description, suit your requirements?

Yes, I figured out a way to do exactly that. I even have a "streaming" button for a short sample of the audio file.

I found one of our web pages with a download link to one of our audio files, wen to View Page Source and copied the code, then pasted it into the ZenCart Product Description. I uploaded our Download buttons to the appropriate folder so I could use them, it would be even easier to just use a Text link.

We use a great program called DownloadGuard (www.dlguard.com). Take a look at our ZenCart site to see how it looks:

http://silvashop.com/cart/

You can see a good example with both Real Audio and mp3 downloads on a regular product page in the Home Study Courses section, either the Choose Success of Holistic Faith Healing.

I also found a very easy way to offer Free Bonus Downloads when the customer completes payment.

I wen to Define Pages (in the Tools menu) and added code on the Checkout Success page to a link to the DL Guard Thank You page.

However, everybody got the same downloads that way. So I handled it through Attributes. First I added the media type .txt and then added a text page with a url (web page address) that they could copy and paste into their browser to go to the DLG Thank You page.

Then I figured if I could do that, I could also use an html page, so I did that, and it worked. I set up the Attributes to download a single file, and enter the url to the page as the file. Then when payment is completed, they are sent back to the Checkout Success page where there is a link they can click to go to the html page. I even have a link to our Support Ticket system on that page, along with the link to the DLGuard Thank You page where they can download as many audio and video files (or any other media files) as I want to include.

ZenCart is fabulous. I have only had it for a month, and don't have any idea how to work with html or php or anything else. We use a simple point and click program for web sites, we make it look the way we want and the software converts it to html in the background where we can't interfere. I just made some pages with the links and published them to the ZenCart Download folder.

I get a little frustrated sometimes, but overall ZenCart is fabulous. Very versitle. Somebody really put some thought into this.

If you have any quesitons, let me know and I can tell you what I did. But beware - a while back I read the book Web Pages for Dummies... and it was way to advanced for me. I only understood two things in it. I still have a long way to go to get up to Dummy.

Better and better

ed

Well done, Avlis.. excellent explanation of how to customise
zencart for your needs.
:clap:

Alas, that solution doesn't fit the needs of the site. We really need a list of links right with other attributes, as they, well, are indeed "attributes".

Seems (from reading threads and experience) that setting up Attributes, and/or "related files" or "related fields" to a product is really Zen-Cart's weakest suit. From what I garner:

1. One cannot create simple links for attributes, and instead must use radio buttons etc. But what about user manuals? Downloadable PDF brochures, etc? We see simple links in stores everywhere.

2. One cannot easily create 'Buy Now' buttons for attributes of the product (example: particular Mp3 songs from a CD - as is done on iTunes, EMusic, etc)

3. One cannot readily add new, or change existing, "Extra" features when adding a new Product in the Control Panel -- such as adding a text field to replace the dropdown menu in Music Products. This results in tedious extra steps each time a new product is added.

Perhaps I'm wrong about these things - and I'm spending a lot of time trying to program around these roadblocks. Alas, my skills are more CSS focused than PHP but hopefully I'll have something to share soon.

Zen Cart is indeed a superb example of what Open Source can achieve. I hope I can help add to it in these seemingly crucial areas.

Can anyone help? I have search this subject but unfortunately in a archived thread it wasn't fully answered.

I was wondering if a link to a free downloadable product is possible in ZC without a visitor filling in a lengthy form (creating an account). I was hoping to have a simple form to collect info in ZC such as:

• name
• email address

Once the visitor has completed this it directs them to a pdf file.

Thanks

Toina

Hi

 I have been reading the threads to set up products for download with ZC, but honestly speaking "I just don't get it"

 Can somebody please explain that to me in plain english, I've trying to do this for the las few days and I am still not able to do it.

 I thank you in advance for your help with this

Onatop