file download help

acrikey · #1 (**permalink**) Aug 21st, 2007, 17:44

Not sure if this is the right forum but here goes, how do you put a file that you want people to download on a page.

Eg; Installer or help file

(Standard file you get in say My documents and put it online for people to download full file)

Marc · #2 (**permalink**) Aug 21st, 2007, 18:52

upload it to your web server then put a link to it e.g.

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<a href="LINK TO FILE ON WEBSERVER">Pressy link here :)</a>

That should work for what you want

alexgeek · #3 (**permalink**) Aug 21st, 2007, 19:23

using php is a nicer way to do this
got this from the manual:

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 <?php
// We'll be outputting a PDF
header('Content-type: application/pdf');

// It will be called downloaded.pdf
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="downloaded.pdf"');

// The PDF source is in original.pdf
readfile('original.pdf');
?>

</span> </span> </div>

acrikey · #4 (**permalink**) Aug 21st, 2007, 23:15

To give you an idea, there are 19 folders all containing 19 photos. The folders need to be down loadable. The first a href does not work and the php script does not like it when I convert the file type to open folder. Any more suggestions, I know it can be done as I have seen and used it before

alexgeek · #5 (**permalink**) Aug 21st, 2007, 23:19

you can't download a folder
you'll have to compress it (.zip or .tar etc)

alexgeek · #6 (**permalink**) Aug 21st, 2007, 23:22

since they are images,
wouldn't it just be a lot easier to just put them on your page and tell them that is they want they image they can right click and save it?
Why do they have to be in different folders?

Marc · #7 (**permalink**) Aug 22nd, 2007, 15:05

Yes, i totally agree with the above post. You'd probubly be better showing them what they are downloading aswell

alexgeek · #8 (**permalink**) Aug 23rd, 2007, 00:11

if they are high res pictures,
you could make thumbnails, say only about 200px wide.
so that the user can see the image scaled down without out waiting for tge page to download 19 high res images.
good luck

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