help with force download script & ampersands

[khakiman]

here is my code (stolen from some other site):

 

^<?

^{// Tells the browser that where going to run a PHP script.}

^{$file = $_GET['file'];}

^{// Get a filename from the GET parameters.}

^{Header ("Content-type: octet/stream");}

^{Header ("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=".$file.";");}

^{Header("Content-Length: ".Filesize($file));}

^{// Sends the brower headers to tell it that its sending that file back to it.}

^{Readfile($file);}

^{// Reads the file from the server and send it to the browser.}

^Exit;

^?>

^{// Closes the PHP script.}

 

works fine except when i have a file with an ampersand in it like tango&cash.mp3 it will try to download just 'tango' and lose everything after the ampersand. ive been trying urldecode but i cant figure it out can anyone help?

 

[Adam]

Try "tango%26cash.mp3". You may need to apply urldecode to it, not sure!

[khakiman]

well renaming the mp3s works, i guess i could do a batch rename with some program out there. i was hoping for a simpler solution to my php but if there is none at least i have an option

[Adam]

.... Did you try what I suggested?

[khakiman]

yeah it works. im going to get a batch rename program and rename all the amerpsands to %26, then re-upload all the tracks. kind of a bitch but it works

[Adam]

Not quite what I meant. Was meaning like "yourfile.php?file=tango%26cash.mp3", then returning the value with:

 

$file = urldecode($_GET['file']);