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A commonly encounter requirement in website development is to provide file downloads for users, but only after they logged in. This feature can be easily implemented in a Drupal website.

1 - Configure Drupal for Private Download

The first thing we need to do is to configure the Drupal core for private download, so that visitors that are not logged-in cannot access the attached files. Simply go to Administer -> Site Configuration -> File System, and set the file system path to somewhere outside of your webroot. You can do this by...

Recently I have been desigining the web control interface of a WinCE based embedded system for a client. Because the device uses a small QVGA display, and doesn't have a physical keyboard, one of the requirements was to provide a virtual keypad within the web interface. Because of this I came to discover a virtual keypad plugin for the jQuery JavaScript Library, and found it quite handy. The following is a demonstration of this plugin.

The jQuery Keypad Plugin was created by an Australian called Keith Wood. The official...

This tutorial is created using Adobe Flash CS4.  Trial downloads of the Flash platform are available from the Adobe website at http://www.adobe.com/downloads/.

1) Create an empty flash document by clicking File->New.  Then click on the Templates tab and select 300 x 250 - Medium Rectangle.  The Medium Rectangle is a commonly used size for internet advertising.

2) Notice by default there is one layer created in the timeline, with one...