Question

In a project I’m working on, the client has required that every time a user clicks on a link to download (they will be downloading a video or mp3), there should be a log kept of who has downloaded what and when.

I have a table in my database set up to record the User ID, the File ID, and the date when it was downloaded. However, I don’t know how to do this, as the link is basically an tag (obviously).

What is the best way to achieve this?

Answer 1

Probably the simplest solution would be to write simple onclick ajax event.

If you want noscript solution you’ll have to create some download wrapper, that’d serve you proper file. Just create special route and controller (eg. /downloads/filename), increment download meter for this one and return asset instead of html response. Don’t forget to set proper Content-Type header tho.

There’s also IgorwFileServeBundle that could help you loads.