File Download Script

September 19th, 2006  –  Category: PHP Scripts  –  15 Comments »

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This file downloading script will allow you to set up a download area on your website which links to files which don’t exist physically on the site. Rather, the files to be downloaded can exist in an alternate location. It is actually the system in use right on this page for downloading these files.

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15 Responses to “File Download Script”

  1. Rick McCoy Says:
    December 7th, 2006 at 3:55 pm

    I’m trying out your dl.php script but having problems. Will not find file. I’ve hard-coded the location to be sure. Simply tells me the file doesn’t exist. Any suggestions?

    http://www.ChristianImageLibrary.com/dl.php?filename=frost.zip

  2. Zain Says:
    December 19th, 2006 at 10:06 am

    I am having the exact same issue as Rick. It cannot find the file to be downloaded. The scrit is in the site root in a folder of its own, the files are in a seperate folder in the root as well (for purposes of testing the script), so the path should be:

    $download_path = “$DOCUMENT_ROOT/folder_containing_files”;

    The files in the secure folder are such as:
    newsletter.pdf
    somearchive.zip

    What are we doing wrong here? Please help.

    Thanks

  3. Admin Says:
    December 19th, 2006 at 11:34 am

    Hey guys,

    Thanks for trying the product. I suspect that the problem you are encountering may be related to how some PHP installs handle global variables. I’ve modified the code in the download slightly to account for this. You can also modify your own installations to use the following download path:
    $download_path = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . “/folder_containing_files”;

    Thanks for letting me know about the problem.

  4. tim Says:
    December 26th, 2006 at 11:34 am

    Hey James,
    Can the download path be set to a URL? I don’t want to use a path because of securty issues and some of the files will be on a different server that where the script is installed. Thanks

  5. Karim Says:
    February 20th, 2007 at 7:55 pm

    Thanks for the script, just wish I could get it to work. All I ever get is “I’m sorry, the file doesn’t seem to exist.”

    Has anyone gotten this script to work?

  6. Steve Says:
    March 5th, 2007 at 8:40 pm

    sorry guys… I downloaded it. installed it and it worked fine first time.

    Thanks for the script!

  7. Karim Says:
    March 5th, 2007 at 8:46 pm

    Perhaps it’s the PHP install?

    Server Type FreeBSD
    Web Server Apache v1.3.37 (cgi)
    PHP 4.4.4

  8. Stuart Elliot Says:
    March 10th, 2007 at 6:58 am

    i have a collection of titles all go from 1 to 54

    eg old download path

    /Cds/1.rar
    /Cds/2.rar

    dl.php?filename=1.rar | 2.rar | 3.rar

    is there anyway of randomizing the download link or somat like that.

  9. Philippe Says:
    March 17th, 2007 at 7:47 am

    Hi James! Your script rocks!! works perfectly for me…

    Thanks a lot!!

  10. Richard Says:
    July 11th, 2007 at 10:24 am

    http://www.warkensoft.com/dl.php?filename=fileDownload.zip doesn’t work

  11. Admin Says:
    July 11th, 2007 at 10:34 am

    Hi Richard,

    Thanks for pointing it out. We just upgraded to a new server and the download script was broken. It has now been fixed.

  12. Matt Says:
    November 16th, 2007 at 4:18 am

    This small change allows for spaces in your file names.

    header(’Content-Disposition: attachment;filename=”‘.$filename.’”‘);

  13. collector Says:
    November 21st, 2007 at 11:09 am

    Nice script, not overloaded with useless features. But…
    You should escape filename in the script. Currently script opens whole site for hacker attack.
    You could also add hotlinking protection, like it is done in the following script
    http://www.zubrag.com/scripts/download.php

    This would make your script even more powerful.

  14. petter Says:
    May 21st, 2008 at 1:00 pm

    Can’t see how this script would work with files on a remote server?

  15. stephanie Says:
    August 4th, 2009 at 11:41 am

    The filename when called from browser is case-sensitive.
    so dl.php?filename=btn.JPG is totally different than
    dl.php?filename=BTN.jpg

    In case any newbies can’t get this script to work it is worth pointing out.

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