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I am a classic asp/.net/sql server developer. Once in a while, I make a foray into php and I have not done it consistently well enough to get a hang of it but doesn't discourage me from trying. However, one thing I have noticed is that someone is seriously in need of help. S/he posts a question. Several well intentioned helpers come up with some useful suggestions on how to help the OP. Some provide sample code. Then there is *always* someone who feels he needs to be heard and then comes up with some silly comments, none of which helps the OP looking for help. Whether the music is mine and I decide to sell it, how does your comment help me???? You can decide that you have a solution to my problem but since I am not giving it away, you would not help me. That's completely within your rights but don't come here wasting a space just to make some unrelated comments. I said I have some music in our database. There is no way a reasonable individual would infer that it is mine and even if it is, I am not asking a Priest if I can or cannot sell it. I am asking for CODING help. That is why NO ONE but you ventured into that moral space.

Thank you kicken for providing the most useful information to my question.

First ginerjim, With all due respect, you shouldn't be the moral warrior here. Second, I am doing this for a musical group who has the right to charge for their music, thank you.

Hi Jacques, I am beginning to think that it is the way that I frame my questions that give the experts the wrong impression about what I can or cannot do. I have actually implemented, quite successfully, shopping cart app. If I didn't specify so, I would like to say that the only issue I am struggling to figure out is how to show the product, the price and download link. The big issue for me is when a user clicks the download link, rather then show the product to download but to show them pay link and if the user pays, then the download reappears and this time, the user is able to download the music. Unless I am wrong, I think is different from straight up shopping cart where user clicks add to cart, checkout or continue etc. So, the issue with me is NOT how to implement shopping cart because I have done that using php, classic asp and asp.net. The issue is how to present download and user clicks on download, rather than show the product to download but to show pay for the item link. Sorry if it makes look like I need to hire a programmer. As you know from experience, no matter how good you think you are, there are things you struggle to figure out. thanks for you help

Thank you guys so much. This is probably the part you may dislike the most but can you please give me some sample of how to do this? If there is a link to where this has been done before, that would be very helpful as well.

Dear Experts, We have a lot music tracks on our database that we would like to display on a three -column per row layout on our website. Our objective is to have each music and the amount associated with that music next to it and then a download button or link. If a user clicks on that download link, then a link or icon displays asking the user to pay for the music s/he is attempting to download. This is kind of like shopping cart except user can download after making payment. The part that is presenting difficulty for us how to display the music track, the amount, the download link and when user clicks that download link, show pay. Any ideas how to approach this? If there is any link that can help, please let me know. Thanks a lot in advance.