Hi,

If someone is interested, I have made a little hack of Jdownloads v3.9 in order to filter your downloads by tags directly from Jdownloads.

OPEN : /components/com_jdownloads/models/downloads.php

Look for this line  :

            $query->from('#__jdownloads_files AS a');            
Add this code just after :

if(isset($_GET['tag']) && !empty($_GET['tag'])){
        $query->join('INNER', '#__contentitem_tag_map AS t on a.id = t.content_item_id');
        $query->where('(t.tag_id = '.(int)$_GET['tag'].') AND (t.type_alias = \'com_jdownloads.download\')');
}
How it works ? From the 'All Downloads' page, append this argument tag= to your URL
Example : www.exemple.com/downloads/all/?tag=5 (where 5 is your Joomla tag ID).

Now you can create a button link with your favorites tags in your Jdownloads layout.

Rikooo
Sound interesting.  Could you please send a pic of what the output looks like please.
Presently Tags are shown with the Download, if you click on a tag then it lists all the Downloads with that tag using the Tags Component.
Colin

Hi Colin,

The output is the normal outpout of JDownloads, try my hack you will see. (It's not the output of com_tags)

It will output on this page like any other downloads : index.php?option=com_jdownloads&view=downloads

Thank you

Rikoo
Are you saying it effectively turns it into a "list Downloads by Tag"?Colin

Yes absolutely,

It even make the categories obsolete, because now you can use tags instead.

Hi
Will talk with Arno about this as really it would need to be a new option with its own menu item etc. It would be a good addition I think as "List Downloads by Tags"  - Iwill move the topic to 'Suggestions'

Colin

This is a really amazing feature. I hope it gets added. Thanks for sharing it!

In the meantime though, is there a way to make an SEF URL and title for each tag page? Otherwise, it's not too great for SEO.

Hi Rikoo,
please use never a hack like yours. This would be very dangerous. You should never use unfiltered GET data for a database query!