download off website

[brockie99]

does anyone know how i can let users of my website download say, a word document off my site?? for example if the document is called 'workstation.doc'.

Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks

[Mordecai]

Assuming you want to force the download, just use [man]header/man:

header('Content-type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename=word.doc');
readfile('word.doc');

The [man]readfile/man simply outputs the contents of the file.

[brockie99]

i have a feeling this works, but its seems to crash my computer (which is no slouch) everytime the page loads. Do i need some link to allow the user to click to download?

[brockie99]

This trys each time to download the file onto the page i am calling. Obviously it fails to load properly, as it is a word document with images and cannot be viewed on an HTML page. So how can i create a link to call the download to a location on the users computer?

Thanks

[Mordecai]

You have to create a separate file that outputs the file you're downloading, then link to that.