Allow Admin to see a record of who downloaded an attachement

[gdavison]

Searched the Mods section and tips and tricks and cant see an existing mod or a tip on how an Admin could achieve this.  Like many users of SMF I use SMF to run a club forum and often we attach key documents to posts for members to read such as a Safety Assessment for an activity and I am wondering if there would be a way for a feature to allow allow Admins to see a record of who downloaded the attachment .. Admittedly downloading said attachment and reading it are two completely unrelated things 

Can it even be done ?  If so can the feature also record date / time of the download ?

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

Honestly, sounds more like mod material to me.

[Doug Heffernan]

Can it even be done ?  If so can the feature also record date / time of the download ?

Yes, that can be done. However it will require custom coding. I also agree with Lex that this is best done as a mod rather than a built in feature.

[GL700Wing]

@gdavison I use the Who Downloaded Attachment mod on my SMF 2.0 forums.

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There seems to be an SMF 2.1 compatible version on GitHub (zip file attached) but I haven't tested it to know if it works.

I've customised the ./Sources/Mod-WhoDownloadedAttachment.php file as follows:

Find:

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LIMIT 1000',Add before:

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ORDER BY d.log_time ASCReason for change: To display list in date order (most recent at bottom of list - change ASC to DESC if you want the most recent at the top of the list).


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$context['download_list']['xml'] = $download_list;Replace with:

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$context['download_list']['xml'] = str_replace(' ', ' ', $download_list);Reason for change: Non-breaking spaces were causing issues for JS/Ajax on my SMF 2.0 forums.

[gdavison]

thanks all for the responses (this community rocks) ... will take a serious look at that mod @GL700Wing TY