Re: PHP programmming

by JASON M <dawgclan(at)shaw.ca>

 Date:  Wed, 09 Feb 2005 20:58:06 -0800
 To:  David Kendall <david(at)homepagesplus.com>
 Cc:  hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
  todo: View Thread, Original
I am unsure of their scripts. It is hard to tell what the problem is. I have my own download script which runs off a simple text file and also logs how many times it has been downloaded etc. I haven't updated in in a while but feel free to check it out. http://www.dawgclan.net

I noticed that script was using file system references which seemed a bit strange/security risk to me. You can also rename php files as php source files example: index.php renamed to index.phps will outline the code in colors to help determine problems. If you do check out my script and find any issues I will be able to help as I wrote it ;)

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Jason Mainwaring
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----- Original Message -----
From: David Kendall <david(at)homepagesplus.com>
Date: Wednesday, February 9, 2005 8:17 pm
Subject: PHP programmming

> Although while it comes to HTML, I at least like to think of my 
> self 
> as "intermediate" (probably somewhere between "intermediate" and 
> "advanced"), when it comes to PHP programming, I am a complete 
> novice.  Thanks to the advice of a few here on the board 
> (especially Jens!) I have tried downloading a few PHP scripts and 
> tinkering with them to try to make them work.  I think I've gotten 
> pretty far (especially for someone who a week ago hasn't written 
> one single line of PHP), but I am looking for help from the list 
> to get 
> "over the hump"
> 
> I copied two PHP scripts for downloading media files, and set up a 
> test page to link to them ( http://david.national-
> anthems.net/test/index.html )  Clicking on the top one in Firefox 
> brings me to the 404 page for the site (yes, that's the 404 page, 
> I 
> am not the site maintainer, I only lease space from it), and in IE 
> plays the file instead of downloads it.  The bottom one just 
> brings a 
> blank screen for both Firefox and IE.  The intended result is to 
> bring up a dialogue box to download the file, like I mentioned in 
> an 
> earlier post on how it's done at bravenet.com.
> 
> The code is more or less what was found on the net (the first one 
> at 
> http://elouai.com/force-download.php , the second at 
> http://de.php.net/header if you want to check the original), but I 
> can't understand why they don't work!  (again, being an utter 
> novice 
> with PHP, it's probably something simple for you PHP gurus out 
> there.)
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> --
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> 
> 
> 

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