Archive for 23 November 2009

Customized File Download in PHP

By admin on November 23, 2009
This entry is filed under Beegas Techy News.

<?
if($_GET['action']==”download”){
$file = “./images/”.$_GET['filename'].”.”;
header(“Content-type: application/force-download”); //optional
header(“Content-Transfer-Encoding: Binary”);
header(“Content-length: “.filesize($file));
header(“Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=”.basename($file).”");
readfile(“$file”);
}else{
$folder = “./images/”;
if (is_dir($folder)){
$contents = scandir($folder);
$bad = array(“.”, “..”, “.DS_Store”, “_notes”, “Thumbs.db”);
$files = array_diff($contents, $bad);
}
echo<<<FILES
?>
<table>
<?
FILES;
while(list($key,$value) = each($files)){
$rCtr++;
echo<<<FILES
?>
<tr><td align=”right”>$value</td>
<td><img src=”images/download.png”
onmousedown=”window.open(‘$PHP_SELF?action=download&filename=$value’,'_self’)”
style=”cursor:pointer” /></td></tr>
<?
FILES;
}
?>
</table>
<?
}
?>

<?

if($_GET['action']==”download”){

$file = “./images/”.$_GET['filename'].”.”;

header(“Content-type: application/force-download”); //optional

header(“Content-Transfer-Encoding: Binary”);

header(“Content-length: “.filesize($file));

header(“Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=”.basename($file).”");

readfile(“$file”);

}else{

$folder = “./images/”;

if (is_dir($folder)){

$contents = scandir($folder);

$bad = array(“.”, “..”, “.DS_Store”, “_notes”, “Thumbs.db”);

$files = array_diff($contents, $bad);

}

echo<<<FILES

?>

<table>

<?

FILES;

while(list($key,$value) = each($files)){

$rCtr++;

echo<<<FILES

?>

<tr><td align=”right”>$value</td>

<td><img src=”images/download.png”

onmousedown=”window.open(‘$PHP_SELF?action=download&filename=$value’,'_self’)”

style=”cursor:pointer” /></td></tr>

<?

FILES;

}

?>

</table>

<?

}

?>

PHP File Download

By admin on November 23, 2009
This entry is filed under PHP Scripts and Tools.

<?php

// place this code inside a php file and call it f.e. "download.php"
$path = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/path2file/"; // change the path to fit your websites document structure
$fullPath = $path.$_GET['download_file'];

if ($fd = fopen ($fullPath, "r")) {
    $fsize = filesize($fullPath);
    $path_parts = pathinfo($fullPath);
    $ext = strtolower($path_parts["extension"]);
    switch ($ext) {
        case "pdf":
        header("Content-type: application/pdf"); // add here more headers for diff. extensions
        header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$path_parts["basename"]."\""); // use 'attachment' to force a download
        break;
        default;
        header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
        header("Content-Disposition: filename=\"".$path_parts["basename"]."\"");
    }
    header("Content-length: $fsize");
    header("Cache-control: private"); //use this to open files directly
    while(!feof($fd)) {
        $buffer = fread($fd, 2048);
        echo $buffer;
    }
}
fclose ($fd);
exit;
// example: place this kind of link into the document where the file download is offered:
// <a href="download.php?download_file=some_file.pdf">Download here</a>
?>