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Easy access control to view documents on a website?

fuzzybabybunny

Moderator<br>Digital & Video Cameras
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I've got these pdf documents that I want to make available to people to view, BUT I want them to fill out their contact info when they go to view it so I know who's viewing them, who's interested, and so I can contact them afterwards about it. The thing is, I don't want to have them enter in their information every single time they go to view it. Once they enter in their info, they've got permanent access. But at the same time this is not something I want to set up usernames and passwords for.

What can I do that makes it as simple as possible for people to view these documents, but still allows me to capture their contact info just once?
 
You could use a combination of IP + cookies to store the "viewed" state.

Check for either a cookie, or IP in a database. If found--display PDF. If not found--display input form.
 
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