Customising Expired Download Link Message

[happyplankton]

I’m aware of changing the ‘Expired Link’ message inside download.php, but is it possible to change it to something more consistent with my website and something more ‘friendlier’?

Thanks

[Peter]

Hi,

Please the see the following post which will explain how you can customize the message:

https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/customize-link-expired-message

[happyplankton]

Peter,

I posted that link in my original post and am aware of it.

I want to skin the error message to be more in line of my site layout and not as a BSOD.

Thanks.

[wzp]

The BSOD format is used because, the download.php script executes outside of the WordPress environment.

A rough outline of what you must do, to “skin” the error messages is…

* Create a custom WordPress, or HTML page for the desired error messages.

* Find the point, in download.php where the “standard BSOD” message you want to replace is invoked.

* Insert a page redirect to the “skinned” error message page.

[happyplankton]

Cool.

How do you go about inserting the page redirect into download.php? I know the error I want to modify is ESTORE_DLVS_LEX.

[wzp]

In the download.php file, replace the following line:

eStore_dlvs::error(ESTORE_DLVS_LEX, FALSE);

With the following line, redirecting the user to your “skinned” error message:

header(“Location: http://YourSite.com/Errors/ExpiredMilk.html”);

It is best if the redirected page is a simple HTML page, and not a WordPress page. Otherwise, the user is forced into loading the WordPress environment, just to see your error message.

[happyplankton]

Awesome. I’ll try that soon.

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