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[glenelkins]

How would i let a user click a link and download a file in php. This can be any file type

[tim_perrett]

Hi,

try this... just set the content dispositsion and the file name etc

[code]

<?php

  function downloadFile($thefile, $ctype, $dname) {
      header("Pragma: public");
      header("Expires: 0");
      header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
      header("Cache-Control: public");
      header("Content-Description: File Transfer");
      header("Content-type: ".$ctype);
      header("Content-Length: ".filesize($thefile));
      header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$dname."\"");
      header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
      $fp = fopen($thefile);
      fpassthru($fp);
      fclose($fp);
  }

$thefile = "HSC21.pdf";
$ctype = "application/pdf";
$dname = "HSC21.pdf";

downloadFile($thefile, $ctype, $dname);
?>

[/code]

Cheers

Tim Perrett

[glenelkins]

ok cheers. is there a function to test a files extension? as i am wanting to allow downloads of multiple file types so:

[!--quoteo--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]$ctype = "application/pdf";[/quote]

wot quite be good enough

[glenelkins]

for some reason its not working. i pass the correct file name but it just seems to only want to download user.php but without the extension

[tim_perrett]

im sure you can look at that code and mash somthing togehter to work out the content disposistion using the end(explode()) methods maybe

Im not going to do it for you, thats not the name of game! lol

Tim