Hello,
I want users to be able to download files on my website. The files will
not be located on my site but on some other domain.
I also want to be able to register the download first and then start it
to the user.
I imagine I would have a hyperlink on a page saying 'download here'
This in turn would pass an id number to a page called download.php so
the hyperlink would be "blah blah blah download.php?id=1234" etc.
The download.php would also insert the date and time of the download
into a my sql db.
I can get this far myself but I am stuck now as how to actually then
start the download once I've logged it.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
td.
Full Version: starting a download within php
| QUOTE |
| Any ideas? |
First log the download, then:
http://www.php.net/header
Simple example:
<?php
// We'll be outputting a PDF
header('Content-type: application/pdf');
// It will be called downloaded.pdf
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="downloaded.pdf"');
// The PDF source is in original.pdf
readfile('original.pdf');
?>
Best regards
Fredrik A. Takle
Bergen, Norway
Hi td,
try something like this.
<?
/*
* Change 'CONTENT=6' to however many seconds
* you want the user to wait to be linked to
* the file
*
* Put this line in between the <head> tags
*/
echo "<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="6;
URL=http://link/to/remote_file.zip">";
/*
* put this in the main body after you registered
* the download in the db
*/
echo "Please wait while download starts...";
?>
hope this helps,
adnan
toedipper wrote:
try something like this.
<?
/*
* Change 'CONTENT=6' to however many seconds
* you want the user to wait to be linked to
* the file
*
* Put this line in between the <head> tags
*/
echo "<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="6;
URL=http://link/to/remote_file.zip">";
/*
* put this in the main body after you registered
* the download in the db
*/
echo "Please wait while download starts...";
?>
hope this helps,
adnan
toedipper wrote:
| QUOTE |
| Hello, I want users to be able to download files on my website. The files will not be located on my site but on some other domain. I also want to be able to register the download first and then start it to the user. I imagine I would have a hyperlink on a page saying 'download here' This in turn would pass an id number to a page called download.php so the hyperlink would be "blah blah blah download.php?id=1234" etc. The download.php would also insert the date and time of the download into a my sql db. I can get this far myself but I am stuck now as how to actually then start the download once I've logged it. Any ideas? Thanks, td. |
Adnan said the following on 12/06/2005 12:26:
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| Hi td, try something like this. <? /* * Change 'CONTENT=6' to however many seconds * you want the user to wait to be linked to * the file * * Put this line in between the <head> tags */ echo "<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="6; URL=http://link/to/remote_file.zip">"; /* * put this in the main body after you registered * the download in the db */ echo "Please wait while download starts..."; ? |
No! Don't do this!
You have no control over the download (because the user now has a direct
URL to the file), it adds an unnecessary 6 (or whatever) second delay,
and it uses "refresh", which isn't a valid HTTP header (although it does
work on many browsers).
--
Oli
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