We recently installed the digital download extension for our website, pristinesbead.net. We followed all the instructions for installing the extension and upgraded the website to work with it, as well as adding the needed lines in the includes.php (which I will quote here after describing the issue). We also added "<?php include "vsadmin/inc/digidownload.php" ?>" to thanks.php. And we made sure to run the updatestore.php file. We also made sure to copy all the files into the correct directories. We also added "latedownload.php " and changed the line as instructed.

We do have a downloads field now when adding a new product. To test, we added a product for $0.00 and filled the "download" field with the link to the file. However, when we went to purchase the file, it did not give us the option to download it, and the email for downloading it was never sent out; instead it acted like it was not a downloadable product at all. We tried changing some things around-- first, we tried changing it so used the "$digidownloadpattern" field and set that up (after using a text file to test the directory-- we have tried both from the public_html directory to the file and from the root directory to the file.) We then entered "A" in the download field and renamed the download to the product ID. It still did not give us the option to download. There was no error message or anything telling us that the download was not found, there was simply no option to download a file given after purchase at all as if we were purchasing a product to ship instead.

We have updated eCommerce templates to the latest stable version and have done everything we can think of to get this to work, but simply can not get this file to be downloadable. Any help would be much appreciated! Below is what we have relating to downloads in the includes.php.
[code]$digidownloads=TRUE;
$digidownloadpattern="/home3/pristit5/public_html/Downloads/%pid%.zip";
$digidownloadsecret="gfgb47DFEde68wf2431";
$digidownloadwarn=TRUE;
$digidownloadmethod="filesystem";
$digidownloademail="Your products can be downloaded for the next 30 days by going to the URL%nl%http://www.pristinesbead.net/latedownload.php?ordid=%orderid%&pass=%password%%nl%Or alternatively, go to the URL%nl%http://www.pristinesbead.net/latedownload.php%nl%. . . and enter the order ID %orderid% and password %password%%nl%%nl%";";
$digidownloaddays=30;[/code]

Hi Shawn, if this is for a Wordpress site the parameters will need to be wrapped in globals.
WordPress users - please note the syntax is slightly different for the WordPress integration ie the parameters would be in the format $GLOBALS['useemailfriend']=TRUE;

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