Uploading and linking large digital download files
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| Version: | Commercial | |
| Targetted Version: | C1.0.0.10 |
If your digital download files are too big to upload or take too long via http you can manually upload and attach them to products. To be able to complete this tutorial you will need access to PhpMyAdmin or some other mySQL database administration tool.
- Log in to Joomla Administrator and select Components->Seber Cart->Products
- Click on the product name you wish to edit
- Make sure the Product Type is set to Digital Download. If it's not, make it so.
- Look at the web address in your browser. It should look something like this:
http://yourwebsite/administrator/index.php?option=com_sebercart&view=editprod&pk=21 - If you have a look at the end of the url you will see &pk= followed by a number
- This number is the product key and we'll need this later
- Log in to PhpMyAdmin, open your database and find the sebercart_products table
- Browse this table and find your product with the matching productkey value from step 6
- Edit this record and look for the prodDD field. Type in here the filename of your download. This field is made up of three parts. The first part is the full physical path of your site on the server, the second part is the filename of your download and the third part is the text .ddfile. A sample entry would be:
/var/www/web/joomla/components/com_sebercart/digitaldownload/21.txt.ddfile - The .ddlfile part protects your files from being linked too directly and is really important
- Save the database record in PhpMyAdmin
- Now using your FTP program upload your file into the /components/com_sebercart/digitaldownload folder.
- Once uploaded rename the file to the product key from step 6 and add the .ddfile on the end. In this example the file should be called 21.txt.ddfile
- Create a test order in Seber Cart and you should now be able to download the file.
Last Updated (Wednesday, 31 March 2010 08:11)
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