[Apple Pro Underwear]

So my client is asking to have people register to download a mess of PDF files on her website. She wants a single registration to work for all the files on the website.

I've done something like this for her on a mini-site with a single PDF. Basically, the user fills out a form with email and some other data and then when submitted it logs their IP and allows them to enter a protected folder containing the PDF (where they can download).

Is there a application or content management system that specializes in this? Or what would you recommend to handle this?

THANKS!

[besson3c]

Simple? Register to have your name added to htpasswd file for Apache basic auth. If you use a language like PHP there should be a global variable that will help you access whether the person has authenticated successfully, if you need to do auth checks progmatically. Otherwise, put all of the protected files in a particular directory and protect this directory with basic auth.

[Apple Pro Underwear]

Thanks, I did something similar to that but it's not a way to scale well.

I see that Expression Engine actually does this type of thing via member groups privileges and email authentication... that may look like the answer!

[besson3c]

Meh, by the time you install Expression Engine or anything else and figure it out you could write something yourself, this isn't hard.

[Chuckit]

Unless you're already using Expression Engine...

[Big Mac]

I am a fan of EE. If you were planning to use it anyway for the full feature set, then it makes sense to use EE. If you just want to use it for that single piece of functionality, though, it may be overkill.