Skip Checkout in Magento for a downloadable product

Question

I am using Magento to build an eBooks site. For the release, we plan to have a number of free downloadable books. We were hoping that it would be possible to use the normal

Answer 1

You can loop through a list of your downloadable links and add a link for each one.

$links=Mage::getModel('downloadable/link')
        ->getCollection()
        ->addFieldToFilter('product_id',array('eq'=>$_product->getId()));

foreach($links as $link){
    echo "<a href='" . $link->getLink_url() . "'>Download</a>";
}

Answer 2

This code will allow logged-in customers to "place an order" for a Free, Virtual product while bypassing checkout and redirect them straight to the My Downloads section of their account.

Add the following line to your catalog/product/list.phtml in the spot you want it.

<?php if($_product->isVirtual() && $_product->getFinalPrice()==0) { ?>
                <a href="/modulename/checkout/purchase/id/<?php echo $_product->getId()?>"><?php echo $this->__('Download and Install') ?></a>
            <?php } ?>

Then create a new module with a controllers/CheckoutController.php containing this code:

public function purchaseAction() {
if (!Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->isLoggedIn()) {
        $this->_redirectUrl(Mage::getBaseUrl().'customer/account');
        return;
 }
 $request = $this->getRequest();
 $id = $request->getParam('id');
 $product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')
                ->load($id)
                ->setStoreId(Mage::app()->getStore()->getId());
 if(!($product->getIsVirtual() && $product->getFinalPrice() == 0)){
     Mage::getSingleton('checkout/session')->addError($this->__('Method only available for Free Downloadable Items'));
     return $this;
 }
 $onepage = Mage::getSingleton('checkout/type_onepage');
 /* @var $onepage Mage_Checkout_Model_Type_Onepage */
 try{
     $quote = $onepage->getQuote();
     /* @var $quote Mage_Sales_Model_Quote */
     $quote->addProduct($product);
     Mage::getSingleton('checkout/session')->setCartWasUpdated(true);
     $onepage->initCheckout();
     $payment=array('method'=>'free');
     $onepage->savePayment($payment);   
     $onepage->saveOrder();
     $this->getResponse()->setRedirect('/downloadable/customer/products');
 }
 catch(Exception $e){
     $result = $e->getMessage();
     Mage::getSingleton('checkout/session')->addError($result);
 }
 }

You'll need to handle the Exceptions a little better, but that should be functionally correct.

Answer 3

My best blind guess (looking at the blocks and models in Mage_Downloadable) is using the product type instance. So, somewhere in your product templates, you may be able to do this:

// $_product is the current product
$links = $product->getTypeInstance(true)->getLinks();
if(count($links)) {
    foreach($links as $link) {
        print "<a href='". $this->getUrl('downloadable/download/link', array(
            'id'        => $item->getLinkHash(),
            '_secure'   => true,
            '_nosid'    => true
        )) . "'>Download</a>";
    }
}

If not, I hope that at least gets you on the right path.

Hope that helps. Thanks, Joe