Protect File Download

[virbb]

Hello everyone !

I'm looking for a way to protect the download of certain files on a wesbite i'm running. (wordpress powered).

The website itself is available to anyone and referenced on Google, Yahoo etc and that's ok.
The thing is there are some files that i want to protect.

These files are aimed towards my co-workers. So i want them to be able to download the files by providing their reference number (a combination of numbers/letters).

Since there are dozens of people in the team, there are many reference numbers.

I have these reference numbers in an excel spreadsheet.

Is there a way to use this spreadsheet as a database and lock the access to the files unless the password provided is correct (matches a reference number in the spreadsheet) ?

THANK YOU !!

[djjjozsi]

Technically:
make a file lister, insert the filenames into a database,
generate a unique Code for the files, and use a Code-search form 🙂

Create the form to process the file-code from a link too.

And send to the selected file from the database to the browser using readfile()

And protect that folder not to allow direct downloads, using .htacces

.htaccess generator

Or make a user login to that file lister...

hello, jjozsi.