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hsinxh
hsinxh

Reputation: 1881

Create permanent download link for file in PHP

My PHP script is in direcoty /home/foo/public_html/php_script/index.php

In this directory there is folder named images and it contains some images. How can I get the permanent download link to these images.

e.g http://www.example.com/~foo/php_script/images/image.gif

Upvotes: 0

Views: 614

Answers (2)

James T Snell
James T Snell

Reputation: 1678

This question doesn't really make sense to me. Seems to me that you shouldn't need to do anything special, just link to your pictures... So use that URL example you gave, that should work already.

Since you're asking this question, I suppose you've tried that already? What web server are you using?

In your index.php, I'd just roll with something along the lines of...

<?php>
    echo "<img src=\"/~foo/php_script/images/image.gif\" />";
</php>

But perhaps I'm being a newb and really missing the question...?

Upvotes: 1

Adithya Surampudi
Adithya Surampudi

Reputation: 4454

Have a function doing this

header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
header("Content-Type: image/jpg");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename");
readfile($filename);

and call this function upon clicking the download link

see here for readfile info

http://php.net/manual/en/function.readfile.php

Upvotes: 0

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