Uploading to customer?

[thefisherman]

Hi!

I would like to upload several files to a customer through a webstore after the customer has payed.

So, let's say PayPal handles the transaction, and the script needs to pull 4 files together and send it to the customer, how would i go about that?

Maybe create a link to a certain page where the links to those 4 files are? Or zip them together and send it like you would download a regular file from the internet?

Any help would really be appreciated!

Thefisherman

[feldon23]

I would gzip the files and save them with a randomly generated filename. Then I would use some kind of header redirect to an automatic download so it's harder for them to tell where the file is coming from.

[daveyboy]

Originally posted by feldon23
I would gzip the files and save them with a randomly generated filename. Then I would use some kind of header redirect to an automatic download so it's harder for them to tell where the file is coming from.

unfortunately, header hides the url it was called from, not the one you redirect to.

zipping the files is definitely the best thing to do, but instead of just using a random path name which your users could theoretically pass on to their friends, you could pass a filename variable and use a PHP script to pull the files out of a protected directory using fpassthru(). you could check that they are authorized in the script using sessions or your database, and if so, use:

header( "Content-Type:  application/zip" );
	header( "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".$filename );
fpassthru( $path_to_file );
exit();