PHP - Download Link Replacing Slashes In Path With Underscores

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.

Hi,

I have one webhost (A) that supports no PHP and has unlimited bandwidth.
I have a second webhost (B) that does support PHP, but has limited bandwidth.

The website is on host A and contains a 5mb file that people can download and I'd like to count the downloads. But now I need to use host B to count the downloads.

I'm using this small script on host B to count the downloads.

<?php 
$hits=file("count.txt");
$hits[0]++;$fp=fopen("count.txt","w");
fputs($fp,$hits[0]);
fclose($fp);
header("Location: http://webhost-A.com/files/download.zip");
?>

The download link people see on my website is: http://webhost-B.com/download.php

Generally this works fine, but I found out that people can still find the direct link with download managers and then put that direct link on their website, which prevents me from counting those downloads.

A solution I found is to use ReadFile. But the problem is that when using ReadFile, host B first downloads the file from host A and then sends it to the user and that's exactly what I don't want.

Is it possible to let people download the file directly from host A without showing the direct download link in any way and also count the downloads?

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.

Hi, I have a problem with Internet Explorer converting spaces into underscores:

The problem occurs using PHPRtfLite.

When I run the script I want the file name to contain spaces, however in Internet Explorer these spaces are converted into underscores. This does not happen in ff, chrome, safari or opera.

Any help on how to fix this would be much appreciated as I am stuck. Thanks.
Joe

p.s.
Here is how the file name is created
$filename = "Mysite - ".$u-ID."' (".$user_name.").rtf";

Sample array:

array('one','two','three','_zero');

How could I sort this array so that _zero moves to the front.. Any items that begin with an underscore should be moved to the front of the array to get something like so:

_zero, one, two, three

Thanks

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 All I Am confused

I would like to put info into a database but need it to be secure. I have some code shown below. The problem is I would like to put in ' but keep the data secure.
When it comes back I do not want to show \' I think you might know what I am trying to do.
Here is the code but would like to know how to stop the \' showing.
Code: [Select]
$password = mysql_real_escape_string(stripslashes(trim($_POST['password'])));
Any help would be great thank you.

Hi there i have this code:
Code: [Select]
$str = "<i><font color="800080"> man </font></i><p><font color="9898989"> hi </font></p><p><font color="1111111"> cheers </font></p>";
$pattern = '/<font .*?>(.*?)<\/font>/';
if(preg_match_all($pattern, addslashes($str), $posts)){
        $i=0;
for($i; $i < count($posts[0]); $i++){
            echo "content: " . $posts[0][$i] . "<br/>";
            echo "colour: " . $posts[1][$i] . "<br/>";
             echo "<br />";
           
           }
}
and it doesn't work apparently because of the addslashes but its really needed as double quotes needs to be escaped, consider that i'm applying this code to a larger html file with hundreds of double quotes to be escaped....

error msg i get is Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_LNUMBER in
thanks in advance..

Hello Everyone,
I've been working with XAMPP 1.7.3 and have a general question. I've always read (and been told) to use addslashes() for any MySQL input to protect the database. My PHP.ini file has magic quotes off and the system automatically produces a caret symbol "^" in front of every control character I upload to the database. I can't find anything in the PHP.ini file relating to the caret symbols and control characters, nor can I find anything in the My.ini file.

In testing, it the system behaves just as it would if I had magic quotes on, except that the system uses the carets instead of slashes. I have no problem removing the carets (and any slashes that a user might upload) but would like to know what is going on. I've done google searches on this and have only found content regarding regular expressions. Could someone clue me in? Thank in advance.
Cheers,
Rick

Hi:

Is this the proper way to remove slashes from apostrophes:
Code: [Select]
if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST')
{

$myTitle = mysql_real_escape_string(stripslashes($_POST['myTitle']));
$myDesc = mysql_real_escape_string(stripslashes($_POST['myDesc']));
$myHeader = mysql_real_escape_string(stripslashes($_POST['myHeader']));
$mySubHeader = mysql_real_escape_string(stripslashes($_POST['mySubHeader']));
$myPageData = mysql_real_escape_string(stripslashes($_POST['myPageData']));


It seems to work fine, I'd just like to clarify I'm not missing anything.

Thanks!

Hi guys

When I insert a data into MySQL and thru addslashes() it is adding not one but 3 slashes in mysql.

By the way here are the codes,
Code: [Select]
<?php
//$conn = new mysqli('localhost', 'root', '', 'my_db');
$conn = new mysqli('localhost', 'coder9_work', '******', 'coder9_portfolio');
$query = "INSERT into portfolio(category, title, description, version, started, finished) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)";

$select = $_POST['select'];
$title = addslashes($_POST['title']);
$description = $_POST['description'];
$version = $_POST['version'];
$started = $_POST['started'];
$finished = $_POST['finished'];


$stmt = $conn->stmt_init();
if($stmt->prepare($query)) {
$stmt->bind_param('ssssss', $select, $title, $description, $version, $started, $finished);
$stmt->execute();
}

if($stmt) {
echo "Thank you!";
} else {
echo "There was a problem. Please  try again later.";
}
?>

How do I fix this problem so that It will add only one slashes?

Thanks in advanced.

Ok so I'm coding up a file tree for a script and I've got the system setup so that when a user clicks on a folder it adds that folder to the path. The path is stored in a variable, but I'd like to allow the user to be able to go down multiple directories at once. To do this I'm going to seperate each folder name in the path and link to it so as an example:

$path = './home/public_html/folder1/folder2';

how can I separate each of those so I can make a link to that folder so that:

/home goes to $path = './home/';
/public_html goes to $path = './home/public_html';
etc...
---
Basically just seperate the slashes into an array and seperate each of them off based on how far along it is but I don't know how to do that...

I have this page that keeps adding slashes (exponentially) to the $sql var that gets passed on through the hidden text area. I cannot figure out why it does this.

Any ideas are appreciated. Thank you.


<?php
include_once $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/include/login.php';
include_once $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/include/mysql.php';

if(!Login::loggedIn()) {
include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/include/uploads/pages/login.php';
} else {
function displayForm()
{
$sql     = 'SELECT * FROM `content` WHERE `contentCallid` = \'' . $_GET['page'] . '\'';
$con     = $GLOBALS['mysql']->connect();
$query   = mysql_query($sql, $con);
$content = mysql_fetch_array($query);

$content['breadcrumb']     = explode(',', $content['breadcrumb']);
$content['breadcrumbLink'] = explode(',', $content['breadcrumbLink']);
$breadcrumb = '';

for($i = 0; $i < count($content['breadcrumb']); $i++) {
if($i > 0)
$breadcrumb .= ',';
$breadcrumb .= $content['breadcrumbLink'][$i] . '::' . $content['breadcrumb'][$i];
}

if(empty($_POST['sql'])) {
$sql = 'INSERT INTO `contentVersions`
(`contentCallid` ,
`contentTitle` ,
`content` ,
`views` ,
`permissionNeeded` ,
`status` ,
`version` ,
`created` ,
`createdBy` ,
`lastEdit` ,
`lastEditBy` ,
`breadcrumb` ,
`breadcrumbLink` ,
`noBreadcrumb` ) 
VALUES (
\'' . ($content['contentCallid'])    . '\',
\'' . ($content['contentTitle'])     . '\',
\'' . ($content['content'])          . '\',
\'' . ($content['views'])            . '\',
\'' . ($content['permissionNeeded']) . '\',
\'' . ($content['status'])           . '\',
\'' . ($content['version'])          . '\',
\'' . ($content['created'])          . '\',
\'' . ($content['createdBy'])        . '\',
\'' . ($content['lastEdit'])         . '\',
\'' . ($content['lastEditBy'])       . '\',
\'' . ($content['breadcrumb'])       . '\',
\'' . ($content['breadcrumbLink'])   . '\',
\'' . ($content['noBreadcrumb'])     . '\');';
$sql = stripslashes($sql);
} else {
$sql = $_POST['sql'];
}
?>
<form id="loginForm" name="loginForm" method="post" action="index.php?p=editPage&page=<?= $_GET['page']; ?>&ref=editPage">
   <fieldset>
    <legend>Page Settings </legend>
<p>
      <label>Page Title: </label>
      <input name="title" style="width:450px;" id="title" value="<?= $content['contentTitle']; ?>" type="text" />
    </p>
<p>
      <label>Content ID: </label>
      <input name="callid" readonly="readonly" style="width:381px;" id="callid" value="<?= $content['contentCallid']; ?>" type="text" />
  &nbsp;
  <input name="suggestC" type="button" value="Suggest" onclick="suggestCallID('<?= $content['contentCallid']; ?>');" />
    </p>
<p>
      <label>Breadcrumb: </label>
      <input name="breadcrumb" style="width:381px;" id="breadcrumb" value="<?= $breadcrumb; ?>" type="text" />
  &nbsp;
  <input name="suggestBC" type="button" value="Suggest" onclick="suggestBreadcrumb();" /></p>
  </fieldset>
  <textarea name="editPageWYS" id="editPageWYS"><?= $content['content']; ?></textarea>
   <textarea style="visibility:hidden;" name="sql"><?= $sql; ?></textarea>
   <textarea style="visibility:hidden;" name="version"><?= $content['version']; ?></textarea>
   <textarea style="visibility:hidden;" name="contentid"><?= $content['contentid']; ?></textarea>
   <fieldset>
    <legend>Actions</legend>
<p>
  <input name="save" type="submit" value="Save" />
    </p>
  </fieldset>
</form>
<?php
}

if(!empty($_POST['save'])) {
if(empty($_POST['title']) || empty($_POST['callid'])) {
echo '<blockquote class="failure">Save not successful. You need to have both a title and content id. Please type in a title then click the "Suggest" button.</blockquote>';
displayForm();
} else {
$time = time();
$bc   = explode(',', $_POST['breadcrumb']);
$bcText = array();
$bcLink = array();

for($i = 0; $i < count($bc); $i++) {
$bc[$i]     = explode('::', $bc[$i]);
$bcLink[$i] = $bc[$i][0];
$bcText[$i] = $bc[$i][1];
}

$bcLink = implode(',', $bcLink);
$bcText = implode(',', $bcText);

$con   = $GLOBALS['mysql']->connect();
$query = mysql_query($_POST['sql'], $con);

echo $_POST['sql'];
if(!$query) {
echo '<blockquote class="failure">Warning: A MySQL error has occured while adding the backup to the database.<p>' . mysql_error() . '</p></blockquote>';
displayForm();
}

$sql = 'UPDATE  `content` SET
`content` = \'' . $_POST['editPageWYS'] . '\',
`breadcrumb` = \'' . $bcText . '\',
`breadcrumbLink` = \'' . $bcLink . '\',
`contentCallid` = \'' . $_POST['callid'] . '\',
`contentTitle` = \'' . $_POST['title'] . '\',
`version` = \'' . ($_POST['version'] + 1) . '\',
`lastEdit` = \'' . $time . '\',
`lastEditBy` = \'' . $_SESSION['username'] . '\'
WHERE `contentid` = ' . $_POST['contentid'] . ' LIMIT 1 ;';

$query = mysql_query($sql, $con);
if(!$query) {
echo '<blockquote class="failure">MySQL Error<p>' . mysql_error() . '</p></blockquote>';
displayForm();
} else {
echo '<blockquote>Page Successfully Edited<br /><br /><a href="index.php?p=' . $_POST['callid'] . '&ref=newPage">Click Here to View It</a></blockquote>';
}
}
} else {
displayForm();
}
}
?>

This is driving me nuts and I'm hoping someone can help me figure it out.  I have a site with PHP/MySQL.  I have a form where people can submit a comment.  This comment then goes into a MySQL database and gets displayed back on another page of the website.

NOTE:  I put this question in the PHP Forum because I think the problem is happening somewhere BEFORE the info gets entered into MySQL.  But of course, I could be wrong.

The problem is that some of the comments are coming in with a "\" in front of apostropes, but NOT ALL OF THEM (which is really confusing me).

For example, someone entered this comment which shows in the MySQL database exactly like this...

I predict Lena's gonna win a lifetime Grammy.  It's long overdue.

Someone else entered a comment which shows in the MySQL database exactly like this...

can\\\'t wait to see first pics of the next addition.  Congrats!

They both have apostrophes in them, but only that second one added those slashes (and 3 of them for some reason). 

There are more instances of this where some comments have the slashes before the apostrophe and some don't.  Anyone know what might be causing this seemingly random insertion of slashes?

Say I have this array:

Code: [Select]
<?php
$array = array('one' => array(), 'two' => array(), '_three' => array());
?>
How could I sort that array so it ends up like so:

Code: [Select]
Array
(
    [_three] => Array
        (
        )

    [one] => Array
        (
        )

    [two] => Array
        (
        )
)
Thanks!!