[Resolved] auto file opening/downloading

[tuf-web_co_uk]

hey peeps 🙂

ya know with the header(Location : ); function u can automatically open files
with zip files it automatically downloads them

is there anyway you could instead of opening, just download .mid files, because it seems when i click on my links it opens the .mid
in the broswer (using quicktime)

any help would be smashing 😃

thanks Jon 🙂

[tsinka]

Hi,

you can force a download with some header calls and readfile:

<?PHP

header("Content-type: application/force-download");
header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\"thefile.mid\"");

@readfile("thefile.mid");

?>

[tuf-web_co_uk]

thanks that worked,

but it doesnt save the file as its original file name

it saves it as "download" 🙁

is there anyway to stop this from happening?!

thanks Jon 😉

[tsinka]

Which browser do you use ?

[tuf-web_co_uk]

internet explorer

[stolzyboy]

version??

[tuf-web_co_uk]

version 6.0

[tsinka]

Hi,

it works with my IE6. You might need to implement a browser detection. What happens if you try application/octet-stream instead ?

[stolzyboy]

hmmmm.....

well then i don't know, what i do know is that until IE 5.5 SP2, it
was a bug in IE, but SP2 fixed it

you can try this, this has a header the filename

of course you will have to set the filename and put it into the $name variable, but you may get the idea

@header("Content-Type: application/pdf"); //sets type
@header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$name"); //gets filename
@header("Content-Description: Download File"); // describes what you are doing
@readfile($name);

[tuf-web_co_uk]

hey i tried both of your suggestions and they both came out still downloading a file called "download"

heres both full codes of what i'm using (well in my if statement anyway)

 $row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
$url = "".$row['url']."".$row['name']."";
$name = "".$row['name']."";
$query = mysql_query("UPDATE polyphonics SET dl=dl+1 WHERE id='" . $_GET["id"] . "'") or die(mysql_error());

header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\"$url\"");

@readfile("$url");

&

 $row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
    $url = "".$row['url']."".$row['name']."";

$query = mysql_query("UPDATE polyphonics SET dl=dl+1 WHERE id='" . $_GET["id"] . "'") or die(mysql_error());

@header("Content-Type: application/pdf"); //sets type
@header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$url"); //gets filename
@header("Content-Description: Download File"); // describes what you are doing
@readfile($url);

i'm probably doing this wrong, i'm stupid 🙁

any more help would be great

thanks Jon 🙂

[stolzyboy]

you don't want filename=$url

cuz that will give you something like

/downloadable/pics/filename.jpg // or whatever

you need it to be $name from your $row['name']

so it only gets filename.jpg

[tuf-web_co_uk]

thanks very very much u 2 😃
told ya i was doing something wrong, i'm still learning, but i'll get there eventually

thanks again 😃