download page like on this site

[sfw5000]

Hi,

I am managing a PHP/MySQL site that features hundreds of word docs for download. Right now the PHP script simply pulls the filename from the database. The user must right click the file name and choose "Save Target As..." to download the file. What I want to do is create a download.php page where the user left clicks on the file name, then download.php starts the download automatically. Does anyone have a snippet for what this script might look like?

Note that the exact functionality I want is used on this site in the code library.

Thanks,

Sam

[John_Canyon]

<?
// We'll be outputting a PDF
header("Content-type: application/pdf");

// It will be called downloaded.pdf
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=downloaded.pdf");

// The PDF source is in original.pdf
readfile('original.pdf');
?>

I took this from the PHP Manual.
http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php

Cheers.

John

[sfw5000]

Hi,

Thanks so much. It works great in Mozilla, but in IE it thinks the file name is the name of the file the code is in. So, instead of saving "myfile.doc" it tries to save "downloads.php".. any idea for a work around in IE?

<?
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$form_path");
header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
readfile($form_path);
?>

Sam

[Weedpacket]

Some versions of IE are buggy that way. There are suggestions for workarounds on the [man]header[/man] manual page.