Direct download product by catalog list

Hi,

Well, with custom coding it's possible. It would require to edit the view displaying the products on the listings and there add custom code to load the files data from the products, and then generate the links like on the product page view.
If you're not a developer it will require hiring one to do it for you.
You can potentially contact our partners for that:
www.hikashop.com/home/our-partners.html

Hi,

The data used on the product page is loaded by the function "show" in the file components/com_hikashop/views/product/view.html.php
So if you look there, you'll see that the code loading the images and files data of the product is:

$query = 'SELECT * FROM '.hikashop_table('file').' WHERE file_ref_id IN ('.implode(',',$ids).') AND file_type IN (\'product\',\'file\') ORDER BY file_ordering ASC, file_id ASC';
		$database->setQuery($query);
		$product_files = $database->loadObjectList();
		if(!empty($product_files)) {
			$productClass->addFiles($element,$product_files);
		}

Hi,

The download links are normal download links. And HikaShop tells the browser that the file should be handled as a download.
It's then up to the browser to choose what to do with it. So the download will be handled differently based on which browser you're using and how you configured it.

Hi,

That's normal. As I said, these are download links, not display links. So they trigger the download system of your browser.
If you want to have the browser handle the downloads as PDF, you can change the line:
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
to:
header('Content-Type: application/pdf');
in the file administrator/components/com_hikashop/classes/file.php

Hi,

1. OK

2. No, just there.

3. You'll have to add a target attribute in the a tag yes.

4. You can override the whole file and extend that class with a system plugin:
www.hikashop.com/forum/2-general-talk-ab...custom-features.html

5. That's not possible. Usually merchants want to force the download of the files for the download links so that customers can easily keep a copy of the file. If the files open automatically some customers, not well versed in computing don't know how to save what they see and thus think that they can't get their purchased download, and only see it. I actually don't recommend that you do it like you want for your own good