matt9b Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 I'm selling downloadable products, and accepting payment using paypal. I then manually email the download link to the buyer each time, and then manually change the link every 48 hours. This is to try to prevent the link being abused or mis-used. I know paypal can direct buyers to an after-payment page on my website, but I basically don't want the download link to be the same every time, as this can be distributed. Is there a way to do this automatically somehow, i.e. provide secure downloads to buyers, for one download only, without me having to send out manual links? I'm not an advanced programmer- I just use dreamweaver and edit dreamweaver html code. I have implemented some simple java and php in the past, but a long time ago. It would be helpful if there is a way to do this that I can implement myself (I would prefer not to pay a monthly fee to a service to do this for me, but to set it up to work from my website). I hope this makes sense! Thanks, Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guardian-Mage Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 Really easy to do. Using Paypal's ipn, have it open a page on your site which extracts an email, creates a random password, and stores it in a database, then emails the user the password. The user needs to enter the url in the download address to be able to access the files. If you need source code, PM me, and I can help you out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revraz Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 Why would you want him to PM you? That defeats the purpose if someone were to come along this thread for the same issue and finding no code. Let him reply here and post the code here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt9b Posted November 19, 2008 Author Share Posted November 19, 2008 Really easy to do. Using Paypal's ipn, have it open a page on your site which extracts an email, creates a random password, and stores it in a database, then emails the user the password. The user needs to enter the url in the download address to be able to access the files. If you need source code, PM me, and I can help you out. Thanks, This sounds like it might work- is there a way to tell it to only allow one download per username? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueman378 Posted November 19, 2008 Share Posted November 19, 2008 yep, tell the script to set a flag in the database to 1, (this way if a users download is incomplete you can reinable it) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt9b Posted November 19, 2008 Author Share Posted November 19, 2008 yep, tell the script to set a flag in the database to 1, (this way if a users download is incomplete you can reinable it) Lol Oh of course! Now it all becomes clear to me. Set a flag in the database. I think if I knew how to do all of this, I wouldn't have been asking As I said before, I'm not a php programmer, so if anyone knows how to carry all of this through, some help would be most appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueman378 Posted November 20, 2008 Share Posted November 20, 2008 well currently how are the usernames and password stored on your server? is it jsut one username and password or is it multiple stored in eg a database? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haku Posted November 20, 2008 Share Posted November 20, 2008 Basically, you are going to need some php and database experience to get this to work. It's beyond the capabilities of someone who is doing things on dreamweaver without a knowledge of what is going on behind the scenes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt9b Posted November 20, 2008 Author Share Posted November 20, 2008 Basically, you are going to need some php and database experience to get this to work. It's beyond the capabilities of someone who is doing things on dreamweaver without a knowledge of what is going on behind the scenes. I do have some knowledge of whats going on behind the scenes- can't build decent websites without it, however, I can't program a brand new programming language from scratch. I'm asking for source code and instructions on how to implement Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haku Posted November 21, 2008 Share Posted November 21, 2008 This forum is for assistance with people who are having troubles with scripts that they are working on. There is a different section of the forum for 3rd party scripts. You will probably get the best response by posting there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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