Topic: page download with category support

[webster]

Hope you don't mind Lester, but I hacked a few functions to provide [page_downloads_catid] functionality.  Below is an example for anyone who needs this before the 1.30 release.

This hack involves editing downloadmanager.php, so make sure you make a backup before continuing.  You are going to be working with two functions: place_downloadpage() line 327  & downloads_page() line 366.

1) We need to add a new tag to listen for. Replace place_downloads() with:

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### Function: Place Download Page In Content
# edited by Ryan Mueller, creativenotice.com 01262008
# Hack for inserting downloads by category
# 1)added 2nd replace listening for page_downloads_catid, 2)pass the catid to func downloads_page
add_filter('the_content', 'place_downloadpage', '7');
function place_downloadpage($content){
$content =preg_replace("/\[page_downloads\]/ise", "downloads_page(0)", $content);
$content =preg_replace("/\[page_downloads_catid=(\d+)\]/ise", "downloads_page('\\1')", $content);
    return $content;
}
Notice the new tag we are listing for [page_downloads_catid=xx], that is what you will use when creating your pages in WP.

2) We need to update downloads_page() so it will pull downloads based on catid passed by the previous function. Replace:

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function downloads_page() {
within downloads_page() with:

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function downloads_page($catid) {
Next, replace:

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if($category > 0) {
$category_sql = "WHERE file_category = $category";
}

with

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if($category > 0 && $catid==0) {
$category_sql = "WHERE file_category = $category";
}elseif ($catid){
$category_sql = "WHERE file_category = $catid";
}

You're good to go.

[Ttech]

Wow... Cool... Nice Job

[webster]

Thanks tTech, I just found a bug in my code so I've fixed and updated the code snippets above.

[GaMerZ]

thanks i will sticky this topic and add this to the upcoming release. Can I have your name and URL to add to the changelog credits?

[webster]

Wow that's cool! Glad to help.
Ryan Mueller CreativeNotice.com

[GaMerZ]

thanks =D Bookmarked this thread =D

[Ttech]

[fabifott]

here is my solution:

open wp-downloadmanger.php and find

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### Function: Get Downloads By Category ID
before this line add:

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### Function: Place Category Page In Content
add_filter('the_content', 'place_categorypage', '7');
function place_categorypage($content){
$content = preg_replace("/\[page_category=(\d+)\]/ise", "get_downloads_category('\\1')", $content);
$content = preg_replace("/\[page_category=(\d+),limit=(\d+)\]/ise", "get_downloads_category('\\1','\\2')", $content);
    return $content;
}

you can use two tags:
[page_category=X] shows 10 files of the category with the id X,
[page_category=X,limit=Y] shows Y files of the category with the id X

[Ttech]

Cool. Thank

[amoss]

Hello,

I am looking for help on using WP-DownloadManager and categories...I've searched, but cannot find an answer to my question...

I run a bilingual site - and use qTranslate, so I have short code capability on the download page for each language.   

I want to be able to have download categories that are for language 1 show up on the language 1 version of download page, and language 2 downloads on the language 2 download page.   I set up my download categories so ODD # are always language 1, EVEN # are always language 2.    So I'd like to just put a short code into the page for language 1 ... what I thought it would look like is [page_download category_id=1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,23,25] and on the language 1 page, and [page_download category_id=2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26] on the language 2 page.

Any ideas why this wouldn't be working?

Thanks
AM

[GaMerZ]

 [page_download category="2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26"]

[amoss]

Many thanks.

AM

[flweb]

[page_download category="2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26"]

Doesn't seem to work out of the box for me, I think I have latest version (1.50)

To make it work with multiple category i changed wp-downloadmanager.php:
delete or comment out line 492 that is:

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$category_id = intval($category_id);at line 510, it was:

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if($category > 0) {
$category_sql = "AND file_category = $category";
}it should be:

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if($category > 0) {
if(strpos($category, ',') !== false) {
$category_sql = "AND file_category IN($category)";
} else {
$category_sql = "AND file_category = $category";
}
}however this will break line 592 that can easily be fixed but i dont need %FILE_CATEGORY_NAME% in page download header 

[GaMerZ]

I think an easier way is to use the [download] shortcode instead of [page_download]

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[download category="2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26"]

[flweb]

Sure, but i needed different template for download page and embedded download, so it wasn't a good solution for me.