By googlg on

wannt to build a website using Drupal7 for software download,

we upload the software to the website and users go that site to download , How to achieve it use Drupal7

am newbie to Drupal,

want to build it step by step ,

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hemant_gautam’s picture

hemant_gautam commented

First of all go to the basics of Drupal themes and modules section.

I can tell that you definitely need to use the CCK module to upload the software's and use Views module to display the download links somewhere on your pages.

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googlg commented

Thx, hemant_gautam, I use the Drupal7 which has the functions CCK module created in Drupal6.

and the site I want to build mostly like http://sourceforge.net/ . My website provide the APPs for Apple users.

and each APP has a icon and the Name for the APP. Users can download the APP directly.

I have do that for a week , cause i am newbie. Now I have understood the basic concepts in Drupal7,

but still cannot achieve it

Zakaryakhan’s picture

Zakaryakhan commented

more then 300MB 

David Ipswich’s picture

David Ipswich commented

For a download store all you need is Drupal 7 and the Ubercart module.

Add your files to a folder on your server.

Create store items in Ubercart complete with image and description, and add the file as an attribute for that store item.

People visit your site/store. pay for the item, and are sent an email from where they download the file.

The only person who can download the associated file is the person who has purchased the item on the site.

Drupal 7 and Drupal 7 Ubercart Module are the obvious choice for you.

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googlg commented

Hey guys , It is not a store website, user can freely download the APPs.

David Ipswich’s picture

David Ipswich commented

Same process. Just make the products free.

You can allow any site visitor to download, or you can force people to register on the site before they can get the free download.

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Swift Arrow commented

The dead-simple way is to use CCK to make an "APP" content type with title, description, keywords, and file-field.

Then people can browse your site and download the app file directly from the node. With some nice theming, you can make it look very good.

However, I'd also go the ubercart method for this.

The reason is that you have a lot more control, and a lot more scope for expansion. What if 2 years from now you want to sell an app? If you do it this way, it'll be dead easy.

When you download the ubercart module, you'll see that there are actually a bunch of smaller modules that make the whole thing.

For the simplest setup, just use the product module and it's bare-minimum requirements, plus whatever is needed to set up file downloads (I think it's something called attributes).

There's a very good youtube tutorial on setting up a Drupal file download store with Ubercart. Seek and ye shall find. :) And when you find it, please do link to it here!

You can enable the cart module and the free payment module, and set everything to have a price of zero, and enable another small module to hide the price when it's zero.

Using attributes, you can have a single product with different versions (for eg, one app file for iOS, one for android, one for iOS 5), which users can select and add to their cart.

When they check out, you can force them to register, and then they will be able to download the files from their user section of your site.