Hi Everyone,
This site is a great help!!! I just started creating my own e-commerce store and the tutorials here are a great great help! Thank you for having this site! :)
Lately I have a problem, I don't know how to automatically fetch the links of my downloadable products. I'm planning on putting up a membership feature where the premium members, once logged in, can easily click the links and download the products on their own page. And if a pagination is possible if the displayed links are many. I hope someone could help me... thanks in advance!!!
Newbie :)
6 Answers
Armando Roggio says:
Nathan, This should not be too hard. But it will likely require some server-side scripting.
I need a bit more information. What platform are you using? How are you storing the downloadables. When you say that you know how to fetch the links, what exactly do you mean? Are you writing a script?
Thanks, A.
Nathan says:
Hi Armando,
Thank you for the reply! :)
I'm using Magento 1.4.1.1. I'm uploading files in Magento's backend, by going to Downloadable Information->Links->File and clicking the Flash button.
I hope you could teach me how to fetch the links of my downloadable products. I have a total of 350 downloadable products. It would be of great help if you could show me how to make the links appear on the frontend, so that my registered members can easily download their files by just clicking on them. Thanks in advance!
Armando Roggio says:
Nathan...thinking.
Nathan says:
Same here :)...
Armando Roggio says:
Nathan, Sorry I was slow on the uptake--I work mostly with tangible products--but I think Magento does this already out of the box.
In the user account section, there is a "Your Downloadable Products" section. To see it. Add a downloadable product (which is sounds like you have done) create a user account, buy the downloadable product, and you should find it listed in "Your Downloadable Products."
Nathan says:
No problem :).
Thank you once again. I was thinking to put these links in a static block so that my site's members don't have to login, they just have to go to a page exclusive for them and download.
I'm coding the links manually on a static block right now, coz I don't know how to generate them, all 350 of them... and it's painful :).
I read on the forums that you have to call a class... something like Mage::getModel('catalog/products') but I don't know what to call for downloadable products. Thanks again!
