Download some files only if registered

16 Nov 2007, 2:24 AM

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Download some files only if registered

The site I'm developing is for construction products that will require multiple file downloads for each product. On average about 4 downloads per product (safety information - usage information - cad files - etc.)

The question I have is we would like to make the cad files available only to registered customers. Could I get some suggestions for how to do this?

I appreciate any help. Thanks.

16 Nov 2007, 4:48 AM

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drbyte

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Re: Download some files only if registered

Zen Cart only allows controlled downloads to registered customers who obtain the files via the checkout process.

So ... based on my understanding of your question ... the answer is yes.

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16 Nov 2007, 6:18 PM

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Re: Download some files only if registered

So its possible to have some downloads available to the world and make other downloads only available to registered users?

16 Nov 2007, 9:49 PM

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Re: Download some files only if registered

DrByte:

Zen Cart only allows controlled downloads to registered customers who obtain the files via the checkout process.

monkeyjr47906:

So its possible to have some downloads available to the world and make other downloads only available to registered users?

Sorry, I should rephrase my answer:

At the present time, Zen Cart only allows controlled downloads to registered customers who obtain the files via the checkout process. That is, all customers must be registered in order to have Zen Cart control the distribution of download files.

If you want to offer free files which don't require registration/checkout to obtain them, you'll have to provide A HREF links directly in the HTML of your product descriptions. Zen Cart will not track downloads for those kinds of files, because it does not know about them.

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29 Jun 2008, 10:08 PM

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Re: Download some files only if registered

FYI for folks that may stumble upon this, the work around that I used was to have a sidebox with links to files only appear when a user is registered. If the user is not registered the sidebox reads "you must register to download these files"

probably not the perfect solution but it works.