how to create a download link in joomla

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Almara
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how to create a download link in joomla

Post by Almara » Thu Jan 05, 2012 3:56 pm

hi there,
i'm working on a website made with joomla and I need to upload a pdf document to give possibility to download it to the visitors of the site.
I'm not an expert user of joomla, may somebody explain me how can I do this please? :-[
or please tell me where can I find istruction or tutorials about! ???
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Per Yngve Berg
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Re: how to upload pdf document in joomla

Post by Per Yngve Berg » Thu Jan 05, 2012 4:03 pm

Use Phoca Download or Docman.

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions ... /downloads
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Re: how to upload pdf document in joomla

Post by jovancha » Thu Jan 05, 2012 4:05 pm

You can just upload pdf to the website.

Create link or image "download" or whatever and Link to pdf file. That all
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Re: how to upload pdf document in joomla

Post by Almara » Thu Jan 05, 2012 5:17 pm

..thanks' a lot to both of you!

I uploaded the file and create a link to the file starting from some text in an article, but this kind of link just opens a new window to see the pdf file.. people can save the file from there but not all are able to do this, so I would like to create a download direct link.. do I need Pocha to do this or can I make a document download link in some other way?
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Re: how to upload pdf document in joomla

Post by jovancha » Thu Jan 05, 2012 5:30 pm

Almara wrote:..thanks' a lot to both of you!

I uploaded the file and create a link to the file starting from some text in an article, but this kind of link just opens a new window to see the pdf file.. people can save the file from there but not all are able to do this, so I would like to create a download direct link.. do I need Pocha to do this or can I make a document download link in some other way?
Simplest solution for you is to just zip that pdf. It's not joomla related i think
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