Enter email address to download file

[cuhlcannon]

I have a scenario where the client wants to make available a PDF file for download, but wants to gather the email address of those who download the document.

The idea is that there is a page to download the PDF, but they cannot download unless they complete a simple form. The document is not ultimately valuable or secret, so it does not matter if the page can be accessed by a direct URL, the idea is just to collect additional email addresses for their mailing list.

Does anyone have any suggestions on a module I could use to simply deploy this concept.

Thanks

[tsw]

hmm, you could do this a bit differently (and as a added bonus you know you get mostly valid emails)

use formbuilder and set it to send the information for user also, now in the template write the download url of the file and users can get the url in their email.

I'm not sure if this works out of the box, but its worth of trying

[cuhlcannon]

Thanks TSW!

Sounds good... I will try this later and see how I get on!

If anyone has any other suggestions, I would appreciate the feedback!

Thanks again for quick response!

[cuhlcannon]

I have had a look at this and at first glance, it doesn't seem straightforward?

No problem to set up a new form with the user's name and email address field, and then submit the form. But the destination email address is setup within the mail button field to a specific email address and doesn't give an option to use an alternative or variable field as the destination address.

Maybe I'm missing something?

[micfritschi]

i had a similar job to do. My idea is to set up the FrontendUser with Selfregistration-module and CustomContent. Perhaps an overkill, but in my case, where i had multiple files for download on one page it would the job.

Would, because I run into problems with the modules - perhaps a mixup on my settings only. See this thread:
http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 974.0.html


Hope it helps. Regards
mic

[calguy1000]

There's a class floating around (not yet added to the release) for formbuilder that allows you to send an email back to the sender.

Using this (ask SavageKabbage, or wait for the next release of formbuilder).  The customer would get an email back and in that email, you could put the link to the file.

[cuhlcannon]

I like the idea of calguy1000's suggestion.

Would be a nice simple answer, the website owner gets an email to say it's been downloaded and the user gets an auto-email with a link to download the file.

How can I get in touch in SavageKabbage?

Thanks again guys!

[cuhlcannon]

I don't know why i didn't think of this earlier....

1. Created form to collect name and email address
2. Email with this information is sent to admin
3. Data is written to CSV file from within formbuilder
4. Response page includes link to downloadable PDF

Easy!!!

Not the most technical solutions and there are flaws, but it works for me!

Thanks for everyone's posts anyway!