This is method 2 to offer downloads to your members. There are two other methods you may wish to use. You can view them all and decide which is best for your particular needs.
Method 2: Creating your own download links
This is very similar to Method 1, the automatic listings, however this method allows you to create your own download links, instead of using DLGuard's standard listing. This allows you to create a different look and feel, and even split different download links onto different pages, if you wish.
To use this method, you must have all of the files you wish to offer to your members added as single item products in DLGuard.
If you haven't yet, go to the Home page of DLGuard, and click on Add Product. Enter the details for the first file you'll be offering to your members. For the "Type", select "Other Mechant" from the drop down box. By selecting "Other Merchant", this means you don't need to set up payment processor details, which won't be used anyway.
Keep in mind that if you're already selling these products directly, you don't need to add them again. The membership area can include ANY file that you've added as a single item product, even if you're currently selling it directly as well.
Keep note of the product numbers of the items you wish to sell. These numbers are listed to the right of the product name on the Home screen of DLGuard.
Next, go to the "Memberships" tab at the top of your DLGuard admin area, and then click on the name of the group you're currently working with. This will take you to the "Edit Group" page.
On the Edit Group page, near the top of the screen you'll see a box labelled: "Products group members have access to"
Enter the product numbers of the items you wish to add to DLGuard into that box, seperated with commas. For example: 1,2,3,7
Click Save.
What you've essentially done is say "Any members of that particular group can now download products 1, 2, 3 and 7."
Next, open one of your membership pages in your website editing software (or whatever you use to edit and create your web pages).
On the page where you wish to display all of the download links, paste this code into the Source Code view (ie. the view where you can see all of the HTML code):
<a href="<?php echo $downloadProduct[1]; ?>">Download Product 1</a>
Notice the number 1 in the square brackets: $downloadProduct[1]
This means this is a download link for product number 1, in DLGuard.
To create a download link for product number 7, you'd just replace the 1 with a 7, like this:
<a href="<?php echo $downloadProduct[7]; ?>">Download Product 7</a>
Basically with these lines of code, you're creating your own download links. The code "<?php echo $downloadProduct[1]; ?>" will actually display the correct download link when your members view the page.
Save your file, and upload it to your website.
Login to your membership area, and view this page. You will now see the download link you've created.
You can create as many of these links as you wish, and you can have them anywhere inside your members area.
