Agree, download then redirect

jassh

i have made a page with some of those boring legal stuff
and of course, as ususal, there is this agree and disagree button.

when click aggree, user can download the file they want.
this will take them to another page (file.php),
which will fetch the downloaded file's url from a database.
of course, the page will first detect if user has click btn_agree
using (isset($_POST['btn_agree']))

now, how do i make it so after the location has been fetch,
it then prompt the user the SAVE/Download Dialog,
while simultaneously change the current page to another page..

the main reason is to hide the file's location (URL)
so it cannot be downloaded directly..

any idea how i can do this?

tomwerner

I think this might work:

<?PHP
header ( "Content-type: application/octet-stream" ); 
header ( "Content-disposition: attachment" filename=$true_name" ); 
readfile ( "$file_location" ); 

print("<HTML>");
?>

jassh

i tried ur method before by refering to the chm manual
(they use pdf for example)
strangely, it force the browser to dowwnload the files.php.

strange.. really strange..

any other suggestion to the problems?

thanks in advanced.

dave420

What do you mean "it force the browser to dowwnload the files.php"? Did it download the actual PHP code, or just a file called files.php with something else in it?

jassh

yeah.. it calls files.php, then download the zip..
but that may confuse the user, wouldnt it?

and the rest of the HTML does not load anyway..
any idea on this guys?

i read the manual and it has few example of using header..
but none of this dual redirection thingy..