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MMDeveloper on 10/01/08


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Universal Force File Download

Published in: PHP 

URL: http://www.mechanicmatt.com/drg_2008/

so lets say you saved this script in your document root as "dlFile.php". so it's located at yourdomain.com/dlFile.php

and your files are located at yourdomain.com/files/

then you would link to it like this

href="dlFile.php?filename=podcast1.mp3". If your file is in a subdirectory of /files/ then you'd use

dlFile.php?filename=subDir/filename.jpg

Refer to the comment in the php script to specify the path where the files are stored.

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  1. <?php
  2. if ($_REQUEST["filename"] != "") {
  3.         $filename = str_replace("../", "", $_REQUEST["filename"]);
  4.         if ($filename != "") {
  5.  
  6.                 /*
  7.                         this is where you set the base path and the file for security reasons.
  8.                         If you wish to manually hard code a base path, then comment out the following line,
  9.                         and use the line after it
  10.                 */
  11.                 $file = dirname(__FILE__) . "/files/" . $filename;
  12.  
  13.                 //$file = "/var/www/htdocs/audio/" . $filename;
  14.  
  15.  
  16.                 if (file_exists($file)) {
  17.                         header ("Content-type: octet/stream");
  18.                         header ("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=" . str_replace(" ", "_", basename($file)) . ";");
  19.                         header ("Content-Length: " . filesize($file));
  20.                         readfile($file);
  21.                         die();
  22.                 }
  23.                 else {
  24.                         echo '
  25.                                 <script type="text/javascript">
  26.                                 <!--
  27.                                 alert("' . $file . '\n\nI do not currently have this image ready for download");
  28.                                 -->
  29.                                 </script>
  30.                         ';
  31.                 }
  32.         } else {}
  33. } else {}
  34. ?>

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