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Josh
Josh

Reputation: 1421

Prompting a file download on my web page

I wanted to serve a download of my program on special download page. Something like: http://site.com/download, where there will be a standard HTML page and also a file download prompt. I was wondering how I'd go about implementing this.

The only way I can think of is having a hidden iframe in the page pointing to the file the user wants to download. I also know of the PHP function readfile() but I don't see how I can implement that on the page aswell as have a HTML output shown to the user.

Any help is appreciated, thanks.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 305

Answers (2)

Szymon Lukaszczyk
Szymon Lukaszczyk

Reputation: 722

You can have the site http://example.com/download this can be normal html site. With redirection after few seconds (can be done in js or meta).

It should redirect to PHP site with fpassthru() function in it. That way you can easily implement additional security in the PHP.

HINT: make sure to set proper HEADERS in the PHP file so browsers will start download the file instead of showing the content in browser screen.

Upvotes: 0

Fosco
Fosco

Reputation: 38526

You can use a META redirect, which since it points to a download will not leave the page you're on.

On your HTML page, try including something like this:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="1;URL=/download/sitefile.zip">

This will browse to the file after 1 second, which should prompt the visitor to download it without leaving the page.

Upvotes: 3

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