Can someone help a newbie? :)

[mpf]

Hi everyone. Thank you for this forum -- I truly appreciate any help you can provide.

 

I have a website where I offer numerous PDFs for download. I was having a problem with people linking directly to the PDFs from their own website, instead of the page where I include the link for the actual PDF. I found a wonderful open source php download script, that did exactly as I needed -- it allowed me to list a direct link on my webpage to the PDF file, where the URL could not be copied and placed in the browser location bar (it would redirect to a page of my choosing), and it protected/hid the actual directory where I uploaded the files on my server.

 

Now for the bad part...   I tested some of the pages I changed yesterday, and a couple of those download links are no longer forcing the download pop-up -- they are redirecting only to the redirect page I have specified in the script. Not only that, any new pages that I set up with the new system, do not work (click on the link I provide on the page and it redirects to my redirect page). I am totally at a loss as to why things would stop working, and why I can no longer use this script. I would be sooo grateful if someone could please offer some advice -- I am about to lose my mind.

 

Thanks so much.

 

OOPs, forgot to mention the script I was using -- gowondesigns.com/readme/getfile.html

[Daniel0]

Without having checked out the script, this topic might be of use to you: http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,95433.0.html

[mpf]

Without having checked out the script, this topic might be of use to you: http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,95433.0.html

 

Thanks for your reply. The code on the page you listed looks like it lists details about the file -- the script I have does not do that since it looks for many files in the folder according to the link I provide on my site. I just can't understand why today it is randomly working, where yesterday it was working fine for me. This sounds like a silly question, but can a script just stop working?

[Daniel0]

Well, in a nutshell, the idea in the topic I linked to revolves around this header:

header( "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".basename($file));

 

It tells the browser that the file is to be downloaded. You could probably modify the script to include something like that.

[mpf]

Well, in a nutshell, the idea in the topic I linked to revolves around this header:

header( "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".basename($file));

 

It tells the browser that the file is to be downloaded. You could probably modify the script to include something like that.

 

Thanks for your reply. I am not familiar with PHP scripting. Should I have posted this in the 'Third Party PHP Scripts' forum? I would be afraid to change anything without knowing what I was doing.