Re: How'd They Do That?

by "Jens Brueckmann" <lists(at)j-a-b.net>

Date:	Mon, 07 Feb 2005 19:40:20 +0100
To:	"hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
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On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 18:41:50 -0600, David Kendall  
<david(at)homepagesplus.com> wrote:

> Somewhat helpful, but, if you may recall, I don't know thing one
> about PHP.  I tried to download a few scripts off the web (the best
> was at http://elouai.com/force-download.php, also tried the one
> near the top of the user contributed notes on the
> http://de.php.net/header page you passed along), but still couldn't
> make ti work for me.  For starters I have no idea what the syntax is
> to use.  (For example, to use it, do I just use
> http://mypage.com/php-file-i-created.php?filename="file-i-want-to-
> download.mid" or something else?  Do I paste the code from these
> scripts in between normal HTML headers (that is
> <html><head><title></title></head><body>PHP GOES
> HERE</body></html>?

A good introduction to PHP is "PHP 101" at  
<http://www.zend.com/php5/abs/index.php>

Concerning the script, put it into a separate file named e.g. download.php

Then, on another page where you offer to download a file, say music.mid,  
make a link to download.php with a query string appended:

   <a href="download.php?file=music.mid">download file</a>

Cheers,

jens

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