Download manager - with vB - best one?

[N9ne]

Is there a download manager hack or a downloads database hack? I want to have some files (some very large - > 30MB) for download for just my members. It would be nice to set a minimum post count for some too...

Are there any good hacks that will let me do this? If so, which is the best?

[Mr L]

This would be a great idea. Did anything ever come from this, or did you find anything?

[Boofo]

03-02-03 at 12:16 PM N9ne said this in Post #1
Is there a download manager hack or a downloads database hack? I want to have some files (some very large - > 30MB) for download for just my members. It would be nice to set a minimum post count for some too...

Are there any good hacks that will let me do this? If so, which is the best?

The problem you are going to encounter with this idea is the php has a file size limit of something like 3 meg (or lower, I'm not exactly sure of the size, but it is around that).

[Radgam]

I was actually working on a hack like that but i never got round to finishing it after many issues with my last forum

It's a seperate file called website.php which you can add in files for download. These are accessed by an id in the query string and then read from a private directory (so no one else can download it) and only members signed in could get the files.

I don't know much on the php file size limit though :/

[Xenon]

Today at 10:55 AM Boofo said this in Post #3
The problem you are going to encounter with this idea is the php has a file size limit of something like 3 meg (or lower, I'm not exactly sure of the size, but it is around that).

this is just the upload limit, dowloads can be bigger than that

(also it's 2mb in standart install )

[Boofo]

Ok, I didn't know it was just the upload limit. But how can you download more if you can't upload the same? That doesn't make much sense.

[Xenon]

you can't upload it through a form, that's the limit, but if you upload it via ftp php can access greater files