[support] Drupal 7 Control file download

[Gordon Heydon]

Hi,

Are the files that are being downloaded private or public. If they are public Drupal is being kept out of the loop, and apache/nginx is handling the request, and not Drupal.

Gordon.

On 28/11/2012, at 2:49 PM, Austin Einter <austin.einter at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All
> This is a simple problem, please let me know how to go about it.
> 
> In a custom module, depending on search keywords, I show number of documents in a table to users. When users click on document link, the document gets downloaded. 
> 
> For me, I have set  a download limit for each user as 10. So one user can download maximum of 10 documents per day.
> 
> When user clicks on document link, file is getting downloaded. But during that time none of my custom module's function is getting executed so I am not able to keep track of which user has downloaded how many documents, so I am not able to limit the downloads.
> 
> Can somebody help me , when the user clicks on a document link, how can I force at least one function in my custom module should be invoked.
> 
> Or if there is some other alternative to keep track of documents downloaded per user, please let me know.
> 
> Thanks
> Austin
> 
> 
> 
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