PHP - Redirect After File Download Problem

Ok, I have a download script. The script is called like:

http://www.site.net/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=file001.zip&directory=directory12&

The download file code is below. My site hosts quite a few files that get linked on other websites. Problem is, when that link is clicked, obviously it just starts the file download, as if it were a direct link to the file.

What I need to do, is still have it download the file when the link is clicked, but I would also like it to redirect the browser to my homepage as well.

I tried placing this after the download headers but it didn't work.

header("Location: http://www.site.net");

Can anyone give me an idea how I can get the code to do that? Keep in mind that I'm not fluent in PHP.



case 'downloadfile';

$filename = getGetVar('filename');
$directory = getGetDir('directory');


$current_dir = $uploads_folder_name;
if ($directory != '')
{ $current_dir.="/$directory"; }


$filename = basename($filename);


if (!$grants[$user_status][DOWNLOAD])
{
place_header($mess[111]);
show_Contents();
break;
}


if (!file_exists("$current_dir/$filename"))
{
place_header($mess[125]);
show_Contents();
break;
}


if (!is_path_safe($directory, $filename))
{
place_header($mess[111]);
show_Contents();
break;
}


list($upl_user, $upl_ip, $filestatus, $contents) = get_file_description("$current_dir/$filename", $comment_max_caracters);
if ($validation_enabled && $filestatus == UNVALIDATED && !$grants[$user_status][VALIDATE])
{
place_header($mess[111]);
show_Contents();
break;
}



$size = filesize("$current_dir/$filename");
$daily_size = get_daydownload();
if (($max_daily_download_mb > 0) && (($size + $daily_size) > ($max_daily_download_mb * 1024 * 1024)))
{
place_header($mess[212]);
show_Contents();
break;
}


$monthly_size = get_monthdownload();
if (($max_monthly_download_mb > 0) && (($size+$monthly_size) > ($max_monthly_download_mb * 1024 * 1024)))
{
place_header($mess[213]);
show_Contents();
break;
}
increasefiledownloadcount("$current_dir/$filename");
increasebytecountdl("$destination/$userfile_name");
if (($user_status != ANONYMOUS) && ($logged_user_name != ''))  // Update user statistics
{
list($files_uploaded, $files_downloaded, $files_emailed) = load_userstat($logged_user_name);
$files_downloaded++;
save_userstat($logged_user_name, $files_uploaded, $files_downloaded, $files_emailed, time());
}


header("Content-Type: application/force-download; name=\"$filename\"");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
header("Content-Length: $size");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$filename\"");
header("Expires: 0");
header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate");
header("Pragma: no-cache");

// Decrypt file if encryption enabled
if ($encrypt_filecontent)
{ decrypt_file("$current_dir/$filename", true); }
else
{ readfile_chunked("$current_dir/$filename"); }


exit;
break;

Basically I would like to place a link on my website and have the user download a file, but rather than just right clicking and choosing save target as, the link must be clicked, on the next page the file is fetched and then the client can download the file. How would I go about setting this up please?

When the download appears the link that is produced doesn't show the actual download either, so users can't leech of it.

Thanks

hi,


I want to download the file, where i have the search query in session variable, in my local system its working good, but in server its not working, any guidance please

Code: [Select]
<?php
include("global.php");
// Original PHP code by Chirp Internet: www.chirp.com.au 
// Please acknowledge use of this code by including this header. 

function cleanData(&$str) 
{
 $str = preg_replace("/\t/", "\\t", $str); $str = preg_replace("/\r?\n/", "\\n", $str); 
 if(strstr($str, '"')) $str = '"' . str_replace('"', '""', $str) . '"'; 
} 

$sql = $_SESSION['emp_search_sql'];
// file name for download 
$filename = "employees_" . date('Ymd') . ".xls";
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$filename\"");
header("Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel; charset=UTF-8"); 
header("Pragma: no-cache");


$flag = false;
 $result = $DB_site->query($sql) or die('Query failed!');
while(false !== ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)))
{
if(!$flag) 
{
// display field/column names as first row 

echo implode("\t", array_keys($row)) . "\n"; $flag = true; 
} 
array_walk($row, 'cleanData'); 
echo implode("\t", array_values($row)) . "\n";
}

?>

Thanks

All,
I found the following script to do the download:

   $resultsetpic = mysql_fetch_array($resultpic); 
   $filename = "full_size/$resultsetpic[filename]"; // don't accept other directories 
   $size = @getimagesize($filename); 
   $fp = @fopen($filename, "rb"); 
   if ($size && $fp) 
   { 
      header("Content-type: {$size['mime']}"); 
      header("Content-Length: " . filesize($filename)); 
      header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename"); 
      header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary'); 
      header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0'); 
      fpassthru($fp); 
      exit; 
   }

This downloads the file fine. However what I would like to do is also refresh the page that the user was just on. So I tried to add this:

   $resultsetpic = mysql_fetch_array($resultpic); 
   $filename = "full_size/$resultsetpic[filename]"; // don't accept other directories 
   $size = @getimagesize($filename); 
   $fp = @fopen($filename, "rb"); 
   if ($size && $fp) 
   { 
      header("Content-type: {$size['mime']}"); 
      header("Content-Length: " . filesize($filename)); 
      header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename"); 
      header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary'); 
      header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0'); 
      fpassthru($fp); 
      exit; 
   } 
         $target = "work_queue.php"; 
      header("Location:". $target); 

However, this doesn't reload the page they were on. Any ideas on how to do this? Thanks in advance.

Dear PHPFreak members,
I have been searching a solution for serving a file download via my website. The file to be downloaded is actually on a remote server.

What i need is a code that serves as a download medium without actually downloading the file to my web server. Something like masking file url 

Can anyone help me with it ???
Have been trying this since days. But no solution till date.