coding help need

wittanthony

I need a little help rewritting a piece of code. I was using scripts to have a download counter on my site but now the script doesn't work because my web host is using forced banner ads.

What my script does is that it takes the id number for the download and finds the matching id record in the mysql database. Then adds 1 to the counter field for that record. The pulls the file location from the record and starts the download.

Whats a good way to add that code to my web page so I can have my downloads links working correctly again? After the download starts, I want the page that had the link on it to still be displayed.

Thanks for any help I get.

wittanthony

I've gotten a little farther in fixing the problem but still need some help. Right now instead of giving a save as dialog box to save a file, its trying to display the file on the screen. How can I fix that problem?

jdorsch

wittanthony wrote:
I've gotten a little farther in fixing the problem but still need some help. Right now instead of giving a save as dialog box to save a file, its trying to display the file on the screen. How can I fix that problem?

You need to change the header content type. Apparently there is a lot of discussion about how to do it in the comments at the following link, but I am too tired to page through it for you.

http://us3.php.net/header

Weedpacket

One solution would be to change hosts.... 🙂

wittanthony

I can't change host because no other free host offers what my current free host offers unless somebody knows of a FREE host that offers at least 500MB space, php, mysql, and at least 2GB bandwidth.

Here is the code I'm currently using, but doesn't work right anymore.

$size = filesize( $filename );
header("Content-Type: application/save");
header("Content-Length: $size");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$shortname");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
$fh = fopen("$filename", "r");
fpassthru($fh);

wittanthony

I fixed my problem now. I've changed my code to this.

header("Location: $filename");