download file question

aayatoos

if this code let the user choose the place where to download file

<?php
header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=somefilename");
readfile('fullpathtofilename");
?>

but the problem is that it only take the folders name and the file name, but if i want rather than that put the full url such as

www.movies.com/MOvies/Ispy/I-spy-7.mpg

what code should i use to let the user choose the place

thanks

reply me soon coz its important

drawmack

either http://www.php.net/fsockopen
or use the ftp functions

aayatoos

i need big help and quick don't send me link of some pages, I need code same as what I have written above, coz I have to submit the work tomorrow, or my boss will be very angry, what I need is that I want the user click on a link then message will display telling the user to pick the place where to save and in the link I want to put the full url,

plz I am need help : ( this is my face right now, so be generous and give my the code that will do it

AstroTeg

Your running up against the browsers "Save File As" dialog box. No, you can't from that dialog specify the download URL.

You have to have the user select the URL before you issue the content type header. Then its up to your code to retrieve the data from that URL or redirect the user to that URL. How you want that to work is your decision.

I'm new to this board (cool community by the way), but demanding to have code given to you so you could use it in a job that is paying you to write code is rather insulting. Last time I checked, the folks here that are posting help are volunteering to do it (aka: not getting paid). Life is rough, but do some research and learn so you earn that buck or two... [/end rant]

aayatoos

i always do a research of any problem that face me and does not ask for any code, but this is different coz my boss see my work that i use the above code and said it is ok but i realise that i should put the full url insted of using just the part of it,

i know it is not right to ask for code, but since i am running out of time and maybe somebady face the same problem and find a solution, so why not helping

again my problem is that when ever i put the full url it save them in the tempory file so how can i save them in specifed place by the user

AstroTeg

Originally posted by aayatoos

again my problem is that when ever i put the full url it save them in the tempory file so how can i save them in specifed place by the user

The user must specify via the save file as dialog box. As a web developer, you have no control where the user saves a downloaded file.

aayatoos

no you miss understand me, what i mean is that

if i have a movie that i upload to a server and i know full url of that movie and i want the user to be able to download it by clicking on a link

but when ever i use
<a href ="https://adffaf.com/movies/kill-me.mpg"> click </a>
it download the file in the temperory file and does not display for the user a message that tell them where to save the file

so how can i avoid this

AstroTeg

The user must have the proper software installed to play it back. If they don't have any software that plays MPGs (or in some cases, the software hasn't told the browser), the browser will just default to downloading the file. The only thing you can do is:

Provide a link before the user clicks to download the file to get an application to play the MPG.
Change the format from MPG to something that streams (I'm thinking something like RealMedia or QuickTime).

aayatoos

i don't want to write for the user that if you want to download the movie then write click on the link and choose save target as,
no i want when ever they click on the mouse then message apear if you still does not understand what i mean click on the link below

http://www.ba7raini.org/tt1.html
you will now what i mean

AstroTeg

I didn't understand your last post.

I saw the page you provided a link to. It had "Download". I click on it and it wanted me to save it locally. Was that what you intended?

Are you looking to provide a link to a movie and giving the user the option of viewing it or downloading it locally?

Or you only want the user to download it and not play it in the browser?

Or you want to only play it in the browser and not download it?

aayatoos

i want the user to download it and not play it in the browser, and i don't want to use the right click and then save target as

AstroTeg

Ah - ok.

You'll need to create a PHP file that just specializes in sending files. Set it up to send a header content type of octet/binary (double check the content types support by browsers). The browser will think its a binary file and then prompts the user to download it. Once you send the header, just output the binary data to the browser. When the transfer is done, close the file and thats it.

The trick to this is IE does not honor content types. If it understands the file extension being sent over, it will fire up whatever application it thinks it needs to run/play the file. So for an MPG, it may fire up Windows Media to play it and there's nothing you can do other than rename the file extension (which will just confuse the users). I believe IE is the only browser that does this.

aayatoos

how can i do it ??????????????????
header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$GET['filename']");
i know i should use now the
readfile($GET['filename']); but i don't want to use it coz i want to use insted the full link e.g ("https://wodsfdfs.com/movie/sdf.mpg");
and if i did that it will save a text file

so what should i do

AstroTeg

Originally posted by aayatoos
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and if i did that it will save a text file
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Save file on your web server or save file to the client? You may have to save it on the web server before sending it back out to the user.

AstroTeg

Originally posted by aayatoos
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and if i did that it will save a text file
[/B]

Save file on your web server or save file to the client? You may have to save it on the web server before sending it back out to the user.

AstroTeg

Originally posted by aayatoos
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and if i did that it will save a text file
[/B]

Save file on your web server or save file to the client? You may have to save it on the web server before sending it back out to the user.

AstroTeg

Originally posted by aayatoos
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and if i did that it will save a text file
[/B]

Save file on your web server or save file to the client? You may have to save it on the web server before sending it back out to the user.