File download

[jokerofsouls]

I wanted to know how i could make a submit button so one you click on it it will download a file.

 

thanks for reading

[fanfavorite]

This shouldn't be in a PHP, but you could do it like:

 

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Download" onclick="location.href='downloadfile.zip';return false" />

[JasonLewis]

Or if you don't want to use JavaScript you can use PHP.

 

<form action="download.php?file=file.zip" method="post">
<input type="submit" name="download" id="download" value="Download File" />
</form>

 

download.php

<?php
$file = $_GET['file']; //Get the file.

//You can do some error checking to see if the file exists, etc...

header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"" . basename($file) . "\"");
header("Content-Length: " . filesize($file));
header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream;");
readfile($file); 
?>

 

Good luck.