Downloading instead of viewing file

[SyncViews]

How do I get it so that people download a file rather than viewing it when useing a certain link?

 

eg. <a href="images/picture.png">Download:</a>

 

Instead of the picture being downloaded the brower will just open it

 

I looked to see if there was something like action="download" for the <a> element but it seems that there isn't

[mike1313]

That may go beyond a simple <a>.

[Northern Flame]

you can do it with php

 

<?php

$saveName = stripslashes($_GET["name"]);
$savePath = stripslashes($_GET["path"]);

header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$saveName");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");

header("Content-length: " . filesize($savePath));

readfile($savePath);

?>

 

then just put

<a href="download.php?name=picture.png&path=images/picture.png">Download Picture</a>

[SyncViews]

Oh I see...so I can't just link directly and have it download...

 

[Northern Flame]

not that I know of....