File Download Page

[Hi I Am Timbo]

I'm looking to have authenticated users download files. 

The only way to require them to be authenticated is to have the files be outside of the public directories, check user authentication, then allow them to be downloaded. 

I'm wondering how you would do this.  The effect would be something like sourceforge where you actually download the file from a page instead of a direct link to the file.

Thank you!

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Funnily enough this question gets asked so often that there is a thread dedicated to the subject in the [url=http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,95433.0.html]FAQ / Code snippet Repository[/url] forum.