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marf

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I have a pdf file lets say  http://www.mydomain.com/mypdf.PDF

 

and I have a hyperlink to it. When the user clicks on it Adobe automatically opens it up in the browser (as it should I guess). However I want to make it force the popup window to download, and not open it in the browser. I'm assuming I have to use a seperate download page where I pass the filename to a header and such, is that how I would do that?

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try this

<?php
function forceDownload($archiveName) {
$headerInfo = '';
// Security checks
if( $archiveName == "" ) {
	echo "<html><title>PDF - Download </title><body><BR><B>ERROR:</B> The download file was NOT SPECIFIED.</body></html>";
	exit;
} 
elseif ( ! file_exists( $archiveName ) ) {
	echo "<html><title>PDF - Download </title><body><BR><B>ERROR:</B> File not found.</body></html>";
	exit;
}

header("Pragma: public");
header("Expires: 0");
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
header("Cache-Control: private",false);
header("Content-Type: application/pdf");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".basename($archiveName).";" );
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
header("Content-Length: ".filesize($archiveName));
readfile("$archiveName");

}

 

WARNING:

nothing must be printed to the script before headers,

also DOUBLE check the file your downloading this will download anything you point it to..

so it might be woth checking the type is PDF

 

 

Note: i know this is a php script but it might help :/

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