Offering a file download from my Actinic site

[GreyKnight]

Hi all

I wonder if you can point me in the right direction. We sell various specialist printers (mainly label printers) as part of our product range and I want to put a link on our website for downloading the latest printer drivers. How would I go about the following tasks:-

1) Uploading the driver file (a zip file) to the website

2) Creating a link somewhere in the brochure section of the website so that anyone clicking on it is asked if they wish to save the file

Can it be done inside Actinic, or do I need to start messing about with FTP utilities?

Thanks

[retekdirect]

1) You'll need to use a PHP script or similar to allow users to upload files to an area on the web site. Be aware of file types and permissions to reduce the chances of abuse. Automating the process of being able to then download these is a little more complex. I've written these in the past. Integrating with Actinic would probably be very similar to integrating any other chunk of code.

2) This can probably be done by providing a link to the file in question. Depends on the different files that you want to offer, and how it's related to a product. This could again end up being pretty complex.


Apologies if that's not of much use, I just offer what i can


Ryan

[jont]

Hi Graham,

once you have uploaded the file you can add the following link in either a fragment or product descrioptin etc

!!<<a href="www.domain.co.uk/myfile.zip">my file - right click to save to hard drive</a>>!!

to create a simple link to the file - the user can then right click to save destination file

[jont]

To upload the files in the first place you can specify them under Advanced | Additional files so Actinic uploads them