At 20:57 2002-01-24 +0000, Symeon Charalabides wrote:
> > I have a web site with a lot of files that are downloadable only by
> > registered users. Session variables are used to keep track of who is
> logged and
> > who is not (non-registered users can still browse the files, but not
> download
> > them). Now, I would like to have a limit of one download/user. Is there
> a way I
> > can limit the downloads with PHP or even an Apache configuration?
>
>The simplest way is to set a flag via a cookie - very easy with PHP.
>Something
>along the lines of:
>
>if (DOWNLOAD)
> setcookie('has_downloaded','1',time()+60*60*24*(number of days),'\');
>
>However, knowledgable people can see through the cookies system and delete
>the cookie from their PC, allowing them to download more.
>As I said, it's only the simplest system...
This is a good idea, but then again, how do I know for sure when a
user has finished his download and can download another file? With
something like this (which I could enable in a session variable), a user
can only download one file before being rejected by the system.
Olivier Hubert
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