Comments on: Secure Downloads in Expression Engine http://www.brandonballentine.com/2008/09/29/secure-downloads-in-expression-engine/ Instructional Technology, Photography, Web Development Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:30:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: admin http://www.brandonballentine.com/2008/09/29/secure-downloads-in-expression-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-1448 admin Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:51:16 +0000 http://www.brandonballentine.com/?p=236#comment-1448 @stuart Hello! I'll be happy to take a look. The code works fine on my server, so it may be something in your template. Can you post some more of the code you're using in your template? @stuart Hello! I’ll be happy to take a look. The code works fine on my server, so it may be something in your template. Can you post some more of the code you’re using in your template?

]]> By: Stuart Kirkland http://www.brandonballentine.com/2008/09/29/secure-downloads-in-expression-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-1447 Stuart Kirkland Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:14:48 +0000 http://www.brandonballentine.com/?p=236#comment-1447 Hello there I have just been onto your website tutorial and tried to download the following link http://media-cow.com/downloads/ but I get the following error <strong>Error The following tag has a syntax error: {exp:cron} Please correct the syntax in your template. </strong> can you please help at all because i think your solution will solve my problem Thankyou Hello there I have just been onto your website tutorial and tried to download the following link http://media-cow.com/downloads/ but I get the following error

Error

The following tag has a syntax error:

{exp:cron}

Please correct the syntax in your template.

can you please help at all because i think your solution will solve my problem

Thankyou

]]> By: Mike http://www.brandonballentine.com/2008/09/29/secure-downloads-in-expression-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-146 Mike Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:06:57 +0000 http://www.brandonballentine.com/?p=236#comment-146 Hi Brandon, Thank you for the kind reply and I apologize for not getting back to you sooner. I have not found a solution yet. I think for now I will just use EE pm amd email features with attachments to get docs to my members/customers. The docs will be mostly real estate contracts and related docs via pdf files and the file size is pretty small. The draw back is I was wanting a solution to where the customers could just click on a file link and view the doc in the browser as opposed to having to download and save to their local hard drive. I'm not sure how having a group for each customer would work... I might have 300+ customers...that would be a lot of groups to! Please let me know what you end up with. If you want to you can email me directly. Kind regards, Mike Hi Brandon,
Thank you for the kind reply and I apologize for not getting back to you sooner. I have not found a solution yet. I think for now I will just use EE pm amd email features with attachments to get docs to my members/customers. The docs will be mostly real estate contracts and related docs via pdf files and the file size is pretty small.

The draw back is I was wanting a solution to where the customers could just click on a file link and view the doc in the browser as opposed to having to download and save to their local hard drive.

I’m not sure how having a group for each customer would work… I might have 300+ customers…that would be a lot of groups to!
Please let me know what you end up with. If you want to you can email me directly.
Kind regards, Mike

]]> By: admin http://www.brandonballentine.com/2008/09/29/secure-downloads-in-expression-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-132 admin Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:35:00 +0000 http://www.brandonballentine.com/?p=236#comment-132 Hi Mike, Thanks for the compliment! Depending on how many members you have, you might be able to get this method to work by creating a different group for each individual member. You could detect which group a member belongs to and show only downloads assigned to that group. If you have more than a few members at a time, it might be best to use something besides EE to deliver files to those members. If you haven't checked out box.net, I would highly recommend it for file sharing. I've also been using an open-source project management system called Collabtive and have been really impressed with it so far. <a href="http://nettuts.com/tutorials/tools-and-tips/organize-your-team-with-collabtive/" rel="nofollow">Here's a great tutorial</a> for setting that up if you're interested! Let me know if you find a better solution . . . I'm about to start developing a site that will require similar functionality and I would like to hear which approach you choose! Hi Mike,
Thanks for the compliment! Depending on how many members you have, you might be able to get this method to work by creating a different group for each individual member. You could detect which group a member belongs to and show only downloads assigned to that group. If you have more than a few members at a time, it might be best to use something besides EE to deliver files to those members. If you haven’t checked out box.net, I would highly recommend it for file sharing. I’ve also been using an open-source project management system called Collabtive and have been really impressed with it so far. Here’s a great tutorial for setting that up if you’re interested!

Let me know if you find a better solution . . . I’m about to start developing a site that will require similar functionality and I would like to hear which approach you choose!

]]> By: Mike http://www.brandonballentine.com/2008/09/29/secure-downloads-in-expression-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-131 Mike Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:54:42 +0000 http://www.brandonballentine.com/?p=236#comment-131 Hi Brandon, I have an EE site in development. This and your iphone tutorial are GREAT! I like the secure downloads idea. However my members will need a secure downloads area per member. My members are real estate sales customers. So I need to be able to get them for example real estate contracts. and docs. But have access has to be limited to just that member. Does that make sense? Could your strategy work in this way? Kind regards, Mike Hi Brandon,
I have an EE site in development. This and your iphone tutorial are GREAT! I like the secure downloads idea. However my members will need a secure downloads area per member. My members are real estate sales customers. So I need to be able to get them for example real estate contracts. and docs. But have access has to be limited to just that member. Does that make sense? Could your strategy work in this way?
Kind regards, Mike

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