Limit download to premium users

[phseven]

Is there an option  to limit video downloads to premium users?  Right now is possible to limit download to video formats but not to premium users.

[Tech Support]

Yes, it is possible but not via settings, but via template.

In Website UI -> Pages -> View Video page -> video_view block template there is the following code to render download links:

{{foreach item="item" from=$data.download_formats}}
		{{assign var="format_lang_key" value=$item.postfix|replace:".":"_"}}
		<a href="{{$item.file_url}}" data-attach-session="{{$session_name}}">{{$lang.videos.video_details_label_download_format[$format_lang_key]|default:"%1%, %2%"|replace:"%1%":"`$item.title`"|replace:"%2%":$item.file_size_string}}</a>
{{/foreach}}

 

What you should do is change this:

href="{{$item.file_url}}"

with this:

{{if $smarty.session.status_id==3}}href="{{$item.file_url}}"{{elseif $smarty.session.user_id>0}}href="{{$lang.urls.upgrade}}" data-fancybox="ajax"{{else}}href="{{$lang.urls.login_required}}" data-fancybox="ajax"{{/if}}

 

So KVS will still display download links, but if non-premium user clicks this link there will be either login dialog (user is not logged in), or upgrade dialog (user is not premium status) displayed.

[Emilia]

Hi, what would be the code if I want to enable downloads for logged in members only?

[Tech Support]

26 minutes ago, Emilia said:

Hi, what would be the code if I want to enable downloads for logged in members only?

 

Should be:

{{if $smarty.session.user_id>0}}href="{{$item.file_url}}"{{else}}href="{{$lang.urls.login_required}}" data-fancybox="ajax"{{/if}}

 

[Emilia]

Hi, it didn't work for me.

here's my snippet

{{foreach item="item" from=$data.download_formats}}
										{{assign var="format_lang_key" value=$item.postfix|replace:".":"_"}}
										<a href="{{$item.file_url}}&download_filename=mysite_{{$data.dir}}{{$item.postfix}}" data-attach-session="{{$session_name}}">{{$lang.videos.video_details_label_download_format[$format_lang_key]|default:"%1%, %2%"|replace:"%1%":"`$item.title`"|replace:"%2%":$item.file_size_string}}</a>
									{{/foreach}}

 

[davex]

Thanks! 😉

[Tech Support]

13 hours ago, Emilia said:

here's my snippet

But it doesn't have the code that we specified...

[Emilia]

6 hours ago, Tech Support said:

But it doesn't have the code that we specified...

Yes, can you tell me where to put it? It broke when i did it

[Tech Support]

25 minutes ago, Emilia said:

Yes, can you tell me where to put it? It broke when i did it

Here:

<a {{if $smarty.session.user_id>0}}href="{{$item.file_url}}&download_filename=mysite_{{$data.dir}}{{$item.postfix}}"{{else}}href="{{$lang.urls.login_required}}" data-fancybox="ajax"{{/if}} data-attach-session="{{$session_name}}">{{$lang.videos.video_details_label_download_format[$format_lang_key]|default:"%1%, %2%"|replace:"%1%":"`$item.title`"|replace:"%2%":$item.file_size_string}}</a>

Should not brake anything.

[Tanjiro]

On 1/29/2021 at 12:36 PM, Tech Support said:

Yes, it is possible but not via settings, but via template.

In Website UI -> Pages -> View Video page -> video_view block template there is the following code to render download links:

{{foreach item="item" from=$data.download_formats}}
		{{assign var="format_lang_key" value=$item.postfix|replace:".":"_"}}
		<a href="{{$item.file_url}}" data-attach-session="{{$session_name}}">{{$lang.videos.video_details_label_download_format[$format_lang_key]|default:"%1%, %2%"|replace:"%1%":"`$item.title`"|replace:"%2%":$item.file_size_string}}</a>
{{/foreach}}

 

What you should do is change this:

href="{{$item.file_url}}"

with this:

{{if $smarty.session.status_id==3}}href="{{$item.file_url}}"{{elseif $smarty.session.user_id>0}}href="{{$lang.urls.upgrade}}" data-fancybox="ajax"{{else}}href="{{$lang.urls.login_required}}" data-fancybox="ajax"{{/if}}

 

So KVS will still display download links, but if non-premium user clicks this link there will be either login dialog (user is not logged in), or upgrade dialog (user is not premium status) displayed.

Luckily I found this topic, I was intend to create a new topic to ask exactly like this topic, how to enable download to only logged in members, thank you

[Tanjiro]

May I ask what's the difference between:

{{if $smarty.session.user_id>0}}href="{{$item.file_url}}"{{else}}href="{{$lang.urls.login_required}}" data-fancybox="ajax"{{/if}}

And

<a {{if $smarty.session.user_id>0}}href="{{$item.file_url}}&download_filename=mysite_{{$data.dir}}{{$item.postfix}}"{{else}}href="{{$lang.urls.login_required}}" data-fancybox="ajax"{{/if}} data-attach-session="{{$session_name}}">{{$lang.videos.video_details_label_download_format[$format_lang_key]|default:"%1%, %2%"|replace:"%1%":"`$item.title`"|replace:"%2%":$item.file_size_string}}</a>

Which one should I use or is it the same?

[Tech Support]

3 hours ago, Tanjiro said:

May I ask what's the difference between:

The 2nd one adds download filename parameter which looks like this:

&download_filename=mysite_{{$data.dir}}{{$item.postfix}}

You can use it, but worth changing "mysite" to your site name. Then the downloaded video file will have mysite_video-name.mp4 filename.