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good morning folks,

I haven’t got much time for development because I’m currently very busy. Please note that there is still much todo until this Pepper works perfectly.

Grab the Beta 001 here: Downloads_v001.zip

Download; Upload; Install; …

Tracking Type 1: Redirect your files
Syntax: download.php?uri=http://yourdomain.com/file.zip
Example: yourdomain.com/mint/pepper/tillkruess/downloads /download.php?uri=http://yourdomain.com/files/archive.zip

Tracking Type 2: Automatic redirect Enable the automatic URL redirection (via JavaScript) in the Peppers preferences and set up the file extensions that you’d like to redirect.
Your “file extensions matching”-links on your Minted pages should/will now be redirected.

Tracking Type 3: Mighty Apache Mode!!!!! (experimental)
Upload the .htaccess file to a directory.
Now every file access in this directory is tracked and the user is forced to download the file.
A Guide for advanced .htaccess tracking (e.g. If you wish to track only defined files) will be available in the first stable release.

Note: Type 1 and 3 are not effected by the ‘File Extensions Setting’.

Please send or post only DETAILED bug reports.

ehh, I’ll fix that, Sam.

By the way, you can set the $__debug to TRUE, if your downloads aren’t tracked.

I’ve updated the file above

Changes:
1) I rewrote the pane display because I used the component in parse_url which was recently added in PHP 5.1.2.
2) If $__debug is FALSE and your ignored by Mint you can now download files.
3) I removed my Domain from the .htaccess file.

Please note that: If you use type 3 you have to change the domain inside the .htaccess file.

Till, on my MAC, the .htaccess file is hidden.

You should probably package the .htacess file as htaccess (no . ) and have the user rename the file if they wish to use that method.

Dkozikowski, I’m not sure if I should do this.
I have a bad feeling about renaming this file…
I’ll think about this.

Sam, yes I’ll increase the version number from now on.

Working so well! Thanks for your work here.

Well I tried using the .htaccess method and came across a little problem.

When I click on the download link, I receive the following error message and the file is not downloaded or counted.

Too many redirects occurred trying to open “http://www.dwilkinsjr.com/public/pixelpost/myaddons/admin_comment_stat_v1.0.zip”.

This is probably due to the fact I already use a .htaccess file for the root of my site to clean up the URLs using mod_rewrite

Any Ideas on how to fix this?

Also, a quick question. By using the .htaccess method, downloads are still counted if the user has JS disabled right ?

(For now, I switched back to the JS way so downloads are counted so you wont be able to see the actual message if you wanted to try it yourself)

By using the .htaccess method, downloads are still counted if the user has JS disabled right ?

Dkozikowski, yes, even if the user has JavaScript disabled their download will be counted by Tills PHP. Their hit in Mint wont be of course though.

Oops, spoke too soon. I’m using the .htaccess method. I was able to get it working fine. But when I select “ignore my visits” I can’t download anything myself.

I get this error:

The page isn’t redirecting properly

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

*   This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept
      cookies.

Site reporting: A pipe dream I guess, but I would love it if there were hooks in the plugin so I could report download stats publicly; like the count for specific files, top 10 downloads, like that.

So I am trying to use the .htaccess method, but I’m not having any luck. I am trying to track .m4a downloads from our museum website, sjmusart.org however I am having to host Mint on my personal webserver at chris-alexander.com. How would I set up the .htaccess file to track this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

I’m receiving the same problem as Arco. And Till, I would recommend you do name the htaccess file without a period. Unix-based systems currently can not see it.