PHP - Problem With Hiding Direct Download Link

Hi guys,
I stored the path of a file in a database and the file in a folder, now i want users to click on a link and be able to download the file.
I tried:

	  echo " Download <a href=".$file_path." download>Here</a>"; ?>
	

Didnt work, just took me to the path of the image. What i want is a link and when clicked the download window pops out.

 

Thanks

Hi,

Just looking how to create a link to download a file located on the server, it will be files like .doc etc.

Cant seem to find anything on the net so i think i need php but may be html.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks

p.s. it will be used for more than one file so im looking for a small ish amount of code.

Hey guys,
I'm going to start working on a simple php/mysql project, and wondering if you guys could point me in the right direction. Here is what I want to do:

1. User is presented with a simple form asking a series of questions (including email address)
2. Based on the answers, a specific download link is emailed to the user
3. store all inputted information in the database.

I'm still not sure if I want the email process to be automated, or "held" until the information is reviewed, then download link sent.

Does anyone know if a script already exist for this? I don't need to create user accounts, I just want to obtain user information every time they want to download something.

Thanks for any help.

So I am trying to download an image created with my php script.  I use the following for the download:

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<?php
session_start();
$filename = $_SESSION['imgOut'];

header('Content-type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.$filename );

?>
The file downloads however instead of downloading  "example.jpg" from the /temp folder , it downloads "temp_example.jpg"  which of course is an empty file.

I am sure I am approaching this the wrong way, any suggestions?

Hi!

I have got an array which contains messages for different types of errors on my website (for login errors and such). My problem is however, that when the array is empty it still shows the message box (the CSS).

here is the code I am using:

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    public function showMessages() {
        if (count($this->_messages > 0)) {
            echo '<div id="messages">';
            foreach ($this->_messages as $msg) {
                echo $msg . '<br />';
            }
            echo '</div>';
        }
    }

I am starting to think that I need to be doing this in JavaScript. I would prefer to do it using PHP only, if it is possible though.

Thanks for the help!

hey guys a novice coder needs help here.

I have about 10 downloads on a single page.
Clients wants that when visitor clicks on one download it takes you to a form.
Once the form is necessary information completed and form filled and submitted the download begins.
Now when they click on another download it would download instantly without the need to fill out any form.

How can I achieve this in a most basic manner in php with reasonable security?

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

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<?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

I am using a script for users to download a file, however after the download I want to be able to
redirect the user or display a message etc... but I cannot get it to work.

My download code is below;

if($do_download){

 $filename = 'file.zip';
 $itemfile = ('/abc/123/htdocs/bin/'.$filename);
 $filelength = filesize($itemfile);

 $fp = @fopen($itemfile, "rb");

ob_start();
  Header("Pragma: public");
  Header("Expires: 0");
  Header("Cache-control: private");
  Header("Content-Type: application/x-zip-compressed");
  Header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
  Header("Content-Length: $filelength");
  Header("Accept-Ranges: bytes");
  Header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$filename.'"');
  Header("Connection: close");
ob_end_clean();
  while(!feof($fp)){
  print stream_get_contents($fp); // for PHP 5+ else use fread
 }
 fclose($fp);

 header('Location: page2.php');
}

It doesn't seem to matter what I do whether a redirect or just an echo command nothing continues after the file is downloaded????

This topic has been moved to JavaScript Help.

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=347327.0

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

I have made a Php program that downloads an Inno setup installation file for installing a program. However, if I for one or another reason want to make a new download of the same Inno setup installation file, the previous file will still be found in the Download folder. Each of the downloads get a number in parenthesis, setup(1), setup(2), setup(3) etc. However, I wondered if it is posible to erase the previous file in the same process as I download a new one, so that however many downloads I do, there will all the time only be one occurence of this file in the Download folder.

The download code is as follows:

$exe = "Inno script/Test_setup.exe";
	header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream"); 
	header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"Test_setup.exe\""); 
	header("Content-Length: " . filesize($exe)); 
	readfile($exe); 

Thanks in advance.

Sincerely

 

I have a php form for uploading file as the action sends to upload.php. How I can avoid any kind of direct access to upload.php? I want to kill the php process at the first line without performing the remaining code (it is very critical for me as I have a counter), except calls coming from form.php.

I just finished a page of code that passes all the debug tests except for the very last line on the page. </html>. The page has php and html, java script and some SQL. (see I'm learning and hadn't placed a post until I exhausted my limited resources.

The Error Codeis:
PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in C:\wamp\www\registerform.php on line 292

Here's my concern:

I read this error statement as an error()is missing. Please clarify something for me, You start the php code with <?php and end it with ?>.

 I also understand that the end() will stop all further operation. Correct. When you have a form call itself  for data checking,   and if the data is correct, send it to the appropriate database table, does one need to place the end() at the end of the php portion of the code? And if so, will it not stop any of the code from being read the first time the page is called?

Also since the FORMs action calls for the page to load itself for data verification, how at the end of the checking do I go call another page?
here's the page:

The page is attached:

Trying to sort out setting a cookie that allows visitor to decide which sub domain to go directly to in subsequent visits.

Somewhat complicated by the fact that the sub domains are running seprate instances of wordpress.

Here's the code... any suggestions appreciated!

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<?php
if (isset($_POST['submitted']))
{
$site=$_POST['site'];
setcookie("SitePref",$site, time() + 60*60*24*30, 'historybee.com');
if ($site == 'ms')
{
header("Location: http://ms.historybee.com/"); 
} 
elseif ($site == 'hs') 
{
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
require('./wp-blog-header.php');
}

} else {

//if we have a cookie, load the site
if (isset($_COOKIE['SitePref'])) 
{
if (($_COOKIE['SitePref']) == 'hs') {
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
require('./wp-blog-header.php');
    } else { 
header("Location: http://ms.historybee.com/");
}

} else { //if we don't have a cookie, load the form ?>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>The National History Bee</title>
</head>
<body style="margin:0;padding:0;background: url('http://ms.historybee.com/wp-content/themes/makinghistoryblue/img/body_bg_hb5.jpg') repeat-x scroll center top #F2BF3B;">

<div align="center" style="width:800px;margin:0 auto;background:#fff;">

<p><img src="http://ms.historybee.com/wp-content/themes/makinghistoryblue/img/nhb_logo.png">

<p><h1>Welcome to the National History Bee!</h1>

<p>The National History Bee has both High School and Middle School competitions.

<p>Please choose which site you would like to visit.  Your choice will be remembered for 30 days.

<form action= "<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method ="POST">

<input type="radio" name="site" value="ms"> Middle School Competition

<input type="radio" name="site" value="hs"> High School Competition

<input type ="hidden" name="submitted" value="true">

<p><input type="submit" value="Remember My Choice">
</form>
<br /><br /><br />
</div>
</body>
</html>

<?php } } ?>

I have my template files and some functions in my server which are available for direct reach.
like ;
my "index.php" file includes "loginpage.php" form which is ok when I enter www.site.com/index.php

but also when I enter to www.site.com/loginpage.php it works and shows me just login page. So  this is what I dont want. How can I prevent to reach the files directly like this, I want them to work just for other pages of my website, not for directly seeing.

By the way can this problem also be solved by hosting settings or mod_rewrite ?