Hey I'm not sure if couch has this feature but I'm looking for a file download manager to embed into couch cms.

So that zip files can be placed onto the server, people can download them from the front end but the download's (number of downloads) is reported to the admin in the backend of couch.

Is this possible?

Thanks

[KK]

Hi,

I think we can build something like that using existing Couch features. Allow me to explain -

In a nutshell, the idea is to make each downloadable file be represented by a cloned-page in Couch.
We can keep track of how many times a cloned-page has been accessed (viewtopic.php?p=18532#p18532) so that effectively would give us the count of how many times the file has been downloaded.

The details -
Use a clonable template (say, named 'downloads.php').
Define within it one type 'securefile' region to hold the downloadable file each page would represent. Define another region to track the hit counts -

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<cms:template title='Downloads' clonable='1' >
    <cms:editable
        name='myfile'
        allowed_ext='zip, rar'
        max_size='20048'
        type='securefile'
    />
    
    <cms:editable label='Downloads' name='page_hits' type='text' search_type='integer' />
</cms:template>

Now create a cloned page for each file you want to be available for download.

On the front end you can list all files as follows -

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<cms:if k_is_list>
    <cms:pages>
        <cms:show_securefile 'myfile' >
            <a href="<cms:show k_page_link />"><cms:show file_name /></a> (<cms:size_format file_size />)<br/>
        </cms:show_securefile> 
    </cms:pages>
</cms:if>

Please notice that upon clicking any of the files listed above we reach the 'page_view' of the template. In this page_view, we'll increment the hit count and automatically make the download box to popup -

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<cms:if k_is_page>

    <cms:no_cache />

    <cms:php>
        // identify bots
        global $CTX;
        if( isset($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) && preg_match('/bot|crawl|slurp|spider/i', $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) ){
            $CTX->set( 'is_bot', '1', 'global' );
        }       
    </cms:php>
   
    <!-- increase hit count -->
    <cms:if "<cms:not is_bot />">
        <cms:db_persist
            _masterpage=k_template_name
            _page_id=k_page_id
            _mode='edit'
           
            page_hits="<cms:add page_hits '1' />"
        />
    </cms:if>
    
    <!-- and redirect to download the file -->
    <cms:show_securefile 'myfile' >
        <cms:redirect "<cms:cloak_url link=file_id />" />
    </cms:show_securefile>
</cms:if>

Please let me know if this helps.