PDF help

Anon

Hello everyone I only have one question it is simple but I can not find a stright answer anywhere. The question is I want to be able to download a PDF file from my server, but all that I can get it to do is open in a browser, I do have adobe installed on my machine. I was wondering is there a special switch that I can add at the end of my <A HREF=????>download PDF FILE </A> to make it download rather than open the file.

Thanks in Advance

Scotty

craigh

can't you just right click on the link and tell it to save the thing to disk?

desenhistas

You could do something like this:

<a href = 'download.php?pdf=mypdf.pdf'>mypdf</a>

and in the download.php
?>
header("Content-Description: attachement; filename=$pdf");
exit;
?>

I haven´t tried this but sometning like this should work..
the idea is to let php send the header to the browser.. In the header you specify that that the file is a attachement so on...

Hope it helps..
and let me help if it works

Fernando Michelotti
webmaster direito virtual

Anon

Some of your code worked but I also had to use some code from other people this is how I got it to work.

In the Main page I put this:

<A HREF=./download.html>Download selected PDF</A>

In the Download.html I put this
<?PHP
$filename = "XXX.pdf";
$filesize = filesize($filename);
if($filesize)
{
Header("Content-Type: application/pdf");
Header("Content-Length: ".$filesize);
Header("Content-Disposition: attachment: filename=".$filename);
@readfile($filename);
}
?>

if anyone has any question on this please reply and I will hopefully answer your question.

Thanks

Scotty

davis

Thanks a lot for posting the code for downloading the PDF files from a web browser. I have done a lot of searching/reading and this was the only code example I found that did what I wanted, given my extremely basic knowledge of PHP.

I do have a couple of questions.

Have you noticed any difference in behavior between Netscape and IE browsers with this?

Also, I want to keep all my PDF files in a non web directory, so that they are only accessible through the script, in fact things like the filename will be called from a MySql database. How could I add a Unix path to the file name, any ideas?

Either way, again, thanks for this code