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Hi,

I am new to Drupal and use another CMS which is Perl based. I really want to find something that is PHP and has some of the functionality I require.

I need to create a page(s) to display Downloadable PDF's and Word Doc's with associated and searchable Meta Data. The files shoudl only be downloadabl in some sections by Users with the appropriate privelages once logged in.

Is this the kind of thing that Drupal is capabale of?

Even if a user guesses the path to the PDF directory I want to dis-allow the PDF's to non-logged in users.

Thanks in advance,

Mark

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asdfghjklñ commented

I'm a noob myself and I'm interested in the answer to this question:

In admin => site config => file system

There are two choices:

Public - files are available using HTTP directly.
Private - files are transferred by Drupal.

Going by what other CMS do, the private option should use php to filter access by userclass, and it should protect the files from leeching (downloading directly by url). However, I don't actually know how it works or which files it applies to. I do know that you have to turn it to 'public' if you use the new theme colour-picker feature.