Download Dialog box

man_im_bored · Feb 28, 2005

I've been to a few sites such as download.com that provide things to download. But they do it a little different than the average un-certified programmer such as myself would do it.

Instead of something like
Code:
<a href='newvirus.exe'>Download your free clock</a>
(thats a joke, im not actually putting a virus up)

they do something else. You click on a link which goes to a "Your file should be downloading. if not, click here to download it...", and a few seconds later - a download dialog box appears allowing you to download the file. The reason why I am wanting this is because of security reasons (people can't "view source" and find the original location of the file).

Anyone know how i can create this?

Coco · Mar 1, 2005

First, you need a database. Usually mySQL, but really any type of DB will do. Also, you'll need a scripting language, usually PHP or PERL. If you don't have both of those, then you can't do it.

What you do is assign a download id to each file and you store the file name and the download id in the database. Then you simply make links on your site by using the download ID. So you'll have a script like download.php, which takes in the ID variable.

Download links then become something like www.mysite.com/download.php?id=12345. The download script then simply goes into the database, finds that ID, and sends the filename associated with that ID to the user.

man_im_bored · Mar 6, 2005

yeah i've got php and mysql. i should of been more specific. i normally am...

and sends the filename associated with that ID to the user.
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I've got all the other stuff...but what code do you write that sends the filename to the user.

eg : "Hey Man I'm bored....use the is_upload_file() function to move a file from your server to the client".

Except im sure the is_uploaded_file() function doesn't transfer from server to client, just client to server....right?

man_im_bored · Mar 22, 2005

just for other peoples interest...the page redirects to the file being downloaded

eg
Code:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv='Refresh' content='5;URL=http://downloads.planetmirror.com/pub/majorgeeks/misc/vbrun60sp5.exe'>
</head>
thats what i was looking for, except i thought that php did it! clever thinkin.

thanks for tryin anyway.

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