March 19, 2012
making files in the folder donwloadable using php or javascript
Question by Shrestha Sunil
I am trying to making files to be downloadable after clicking the link of the listed file. I am not getting idea how to make it possible. I have completed to list file using following scripts. Now I have to provide listed file to be downloadable after clicking the file name. Plz help…
$dir = 'd:/temp_file/voice/';
if (is_dir($dir)) {
if ($dh = opendir($dir)) {
while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
if($file != '.' && $file != '..')
echo "filename: ".$file."<br />";
// header('Content-type: audio/wav');
// header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$dir.$file.'"');
// readfile($dir.$file);
}
closedir($dh);
}
}
Answer by Starx
Files are already downloadable by default.
Create a php file, through which the file will be downloaded. For example: download.php
Place the following codes on them.
$filename = $_GET['filename'];
$dir = "../path/to/directory/"; //$dir = 'd:/temp_file/voice/';
// ^ Use Relative links ^ Not system dependent link as this
if(is_file($dir.$filename)) {
header('Content-type: audio/wav');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$dir.$file.'"');
echo file_get_contents($dir.$file);
}
Next link to this page as this
<a href="download.php?name=filename.jpg">Download FileName</a>