By bmcraec on

Hi all,

I am a Drupal newbie (5 days!) who has the mother of all learning curves to work through. I have put up a Drupal 6.8 Framework, customized a theme using Genesis, and implemented Übercart.

The functionality required is to have interested parties wanting to download Open-source software archives AFTER they have registered with the site. Preferred means of allowing the download would be to send an e-mail with the download URL embedded. Anybody know of a quick-and-dirty solution for this on Drupal 6.8?

Apologies ahead of time if this seems like a no-brainer. Like I said above, newbie. Have mercy!

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vm’s picture

vm commented

I don't know how you will do this with an email but it seems to me that if you adjust your permissions so that anon users can't access the uploads and authenticated can access uploads you should be good to go ?

Unless I am not quite getting how unbercart fits into this equation?

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Dublin Drupaller commented

I did something like that a while back for a music client who wanted a microsite where people would register before downloading a selection of free live gig bootlegs.

It was a special promotion and the microsite isn't live anymore....but what I did was use the Drupal ecommerce modules..

The visitor to the microsite simply chose the freebies they wanted (price was 0.00), proceeded through the checkout process skipping the payment options page and their receipt email linked to their user profile page where all their downloads were listed with download buttons they could click on.

I imagine you can achieve the same in ubercart...i.e. use the users profile->files page as the link back to your site and have a look at the mail options for ubercart to see if you can change the wording for order receipts to suit..e.g. Change the "click here to login to your user account" line to something like "Click on the link below to login and download your files" and link to the user profile->files page.

The main reason I used Drupal ecommerce (3.5) was because it's more suited for customised/advanced ecommerce applications (ubercart is great as an out-of-the-box shop solution) and Drupal ecommerce it had a user account module - which automatically registered and logged in the visitor on checkout, so the ergonomics was cleaner...i.e. the visitor didn't have to go away from the site, check their email etc. just to get the link to download the files.

Drupal ecommerce is being re-written as an eCommerce API for Drupal and isn't quite ready yet for Drupal 6 or 7, so, if you're on drupal 6..you may need to stick with ubercart,

Currently in Switzerland working as an Application Developer with UBS Investment Bank...using Drupal 7 and lots of swiss chocolate