Comments on: File Download Script

By: stephanie

stephanie — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:41:23 +0000

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.

By: petter

petter — Wed, 21 May 2008 20:00:41 +0000

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

By: collector

collector — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:09:41 +0000

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.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:18:17 +0000

This small change allows for spaces in your file names.

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

By: Admin

Admin — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:34:58 +0000

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.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:24:58 +0000

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

By: Philippe

Philippe — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:47:13 +0000

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

Thanks a lot!!

By: Stuart Elliot

Stuart Elliot — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:58:32 +0000

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.

By: Karim

Karim — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:46:14 +0000

Perhaps it’s the PHP install?

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

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:40:10 +0000

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

Thanks for the script!

By: Karim

Karim — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:55:13 +0000

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?

By: tim

tim — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 18:34:17 +0000

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

By: Admin

Admin — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:34:21 +0000

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.

By: Zain

Zain — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 17:06:20 +0000

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

By: Rick McCoy

Rick McCoy — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:55:40 +0000

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