I am building a website for a client selling downloadable products. It’s built in Freeway 5 Express, shopping cart from Mal’s eCommerce, payments only via PayPal. None of the tutorials, FAQs and support docs from these companies gives a complete picture of how to do this. This is my first e-commerce site, and I’m weary of trying combination after combination without success. Presently, a customer can go to the site, click e-buy buttons to add products to the cart, proceed to PayPal and complete the purchase. But nothing is sent to the customer from PayPal or Mal’s so the buyer can actually download the products. I know other Freeway users have set up sites to sell, and deliver, downloadable products. Is it only possible with Linklok? If not, how did you accomplish this last step? I don’t know code, so I need very specific instructions on what I need to set up, in which program(s), to do this.
I set up this with Linklok and am not a coder
all the best
Brian
ENauta said recently:
I am building a website for a client selling downloadable products. It’s built
in Freeway 5 Express, shopping cart from Mal’s eCommerce, payments only via
PayPal. None of the tutorials, FAQs and support docs from these companies
gives a complete picture of how to do this. This is my first e-commerce site,
and I’m weary of trying combination after combination without success.
Presently, a customer can go to the site, click e-buy buttons to add products
to the cart, proceed to PayPal and complete the purchase. But nothing is sent
to the customer from PayPal or Mal’s so the buyer can actually download the
products. I know other Freeway users have set up sites to sell, and deliver,
downloadable products. Is it only possible with Linklok? If not, how did you
accomplish this last step? I don’t know code, so I need very specific
instructions on what I need to set up, in which program(s), to do this.
Brian, thanks for your input. After paging through Linklok’s manual, I opted to use Linklokme, and made a tremendous amount of progress in a very short amount of time. But now I’m stuck again. When I test the site, the customer completes a sale and automatically receives an e-mail with download links. (At last!) But clicking the links brings up an error page that says “Could not open file.” I’ve checked and rechecked the Linklokme.php file to be sure product codes matched my Freeway button codes and prices were correctly defined. I even changed the permissions on the downloadables from 644 to 755. Nothing will persuade the files to download. Does the Linklokme.php script have to be in the same folder with the downloadable files? Or is there something else obvious I’m missing?
If no one offer light here I strongly suggest you convey a succinct but
exact state of affairs toAdrian - the developer of linklokme - He was VERY
helpful for some glitches I ran into.
But first - check that PHP is fully operative on the server. There is a text
file that can reveal this (info.php? or similar) - gives a readout of what
is active.
My client was with Namesco who even at the expensive end were not providing
full PHP -(I cant remember the terms used for this but changing to Clook did
the trick and saved him money while giving more service).
The actual links given in the script are correctly given and formatted.
Hopefully those with more general experince of this kind of thing will offer
suggestions. But it is all working fine for me once I got it set up (for a
few videos and pdfs)
May it all align as you desire!
regards
Brian
ENauta said recently:
Brian, thanks for your input. After paging through Linklok’s manual, I opted
to use Linklokme, and made a tremendous amount of progress in a very short
amount of time. But now I’m stuck again. When I test the site, the customer
completes a sale and automatically receives an e-mail with download links. (At
last!) But clicking the links brings up an error page that says “Could not
open file.” I’ve checked and rechecked the Linklokme.php file to be sure
product codes matched my Freeway button codes and prices were correctly
defined. I even changed the permissions on the downloadables from 644 to 755.
Nothing will persuade the files to download. Does the Linklokme.php script
have to be in the same folder with the downloadable files? Or is there
something else obvious I’m missing?
Bin-Ra said
If no one offer light here I strongly suggest you convey a succinct but exact state of affairs to Adrian - the developer of linklokme - He was VERY helpful for some glitches I ran into.
My problem is solved, and I forgot to come back to the thread and say so! Brian, I contacted Adrian as you suggested, who helped me discover that I had placed the downloadables into the wrong folder. They belong in the public_html folder or any subfolder thereof; I had placed them in a folder higher in the hierarchy. Once I moved them, the process worked fine. Thanks for your help – once agian, a fellow Freewayer saves the day!