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i want to create a download link and i dont know how to do it.  i simply want to put a pyhon prgoram that i have written opn my web site.  Can i do this with html or php.  wats the code for it ???????

can any one help me.

all help is much appreciated
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You just upload the file to your web server and you have the download link, if you wanna display the link just do this:
[code]<a href="URL">words</a>[/code]

Replace the URL with the download link, and the words to any words (it could be the file name).
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You simply do what hackerkts said, or if you're talking about keeping the file off the public web directory (private area), then you want to force a download. Read this topic:

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,97105.msg389027.html#msg389027

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to force downloads this is the correct method as posted link from toplay

<?PHP
ob_start();
$fname = 'http://www.example.com/test.txt';

header('HTTP/1.1 200 OK');
header('Content-Type: application/unknown');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=' . basename($fname));
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');

readfile($fname);

header('Content-Length: ' . ob_get_length());

ob_end_flush();

echo 'This will not show in browser or be in file';
?>
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ok thanks.  can you walk me through wat the highlighted code does.  I dont quite understand wat some of the code does.  if you could that would be great

<quote>

<?PHP
[color=red]ob_start();[/color]
$fname = 'http://www.example.com/test.txt';

[color=red]header('HTTP/1.1 200 OK');
header('Content-Type: application/unknown');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=' . basename($fname));
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');

readfile($fname);

header('Content-Length: ' . ob_get_length());

ob_end_flush();[/color]
echo 'This will not show in browser or be in file';
?>

</quote>

i know it look really bad, but i always learn how to script things myself, not just copy others work.
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[code]ob_start();[/code]
Turns on 'Output buffering', meaning everything you intend to output, will be captured in an internal buffer instead of being directly outputted.

[code]header('HTTP/1.1 200 OK');
header('Content-Type: application/unknown');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=' . basename($fname));
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');[/code]
These are some HTTP/1.1 Protocol headers, you can read up on the HTTP/1.1 protcol here: [url=http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html]http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html[/url]

[code]readfile($fname);[/code]
Is a PHP function that reads a file directly into your script, binary-safe. In other words the contents of that file will be placed into your script.

[code]header('Content-Length: ' . ob_get_length());[/code]
This is another HTTP header, your sending over the length of your document, ob_get_length() returns the size of the internal output buffer in bytes.

[code]ob_end_flush();[/code]
This outputs what is currently in the internal buffer then turns off output buffering.

HTH, Zac.




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[quote author=PC Nerd link=topic=99144.msg390338#msg390338 date=1151813242]
ok so how does this get turned into the dowload.  i am reaonably new to php and dont quite get where the link to the file goes.

thanks for your help

Pc Nerd
[/quote]
When a user clicks on the link you did, then it will download the file. It's the simplest approach.

If you want to force a download to protect file location etc. then use code similar to what's provided. Please click on the link to the topic I provided and read it. It describes an approach (links.php & download.php). There's a link to a HTTP protocol book recommendation there too.

If you have the file saved locally, then use filesize() function to populate the Content-Length header and all the buffering stuff is not needed. It was used in that topic because the person had the file remotely using a full URL where filesize() doesn't work.

Good luck.
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