[arti_z]

Hi Everyone

In a site that I am working on I want people to be able to download files, but I do not want to have a static url to these files, but more a sort of dynamic url that dissappears later on...how can I create these dynamic urls? I tried to look for scripts for this but searching for dynamic urls doesnt give me the right kind of scripts...
best regs
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[NeverMind]

you mean a link like this http://www.domain.com/download.php?ID=325 and it still download the file http://www.domain.com/downloads/file325.zip ?

[Stefan]

you'd have to make php serve the files, instead of link directly to the files.

[arti_z]

Originally Posted by NeverMind

you mean a link like this http://www.domain.com/download.php?ID=325 and it still download the file http://www.domain.com/downloads/file325.zip ?

Correct! (and I wish to then put in a sort of timer that removes that link so it is only available for a short period of time).

[arti_z]

Originally Posted by Stefan

you'd have to make php serve the files, instead of link directly to the files.

ok...and what is that and how is it done?
thnx
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[Stefan]

you could store the files in a protected directory or a directory outside the www root, then use a script like this to serve it to the user:

PHP Code:

$size=filesize("$doc_path/$file");

header("Content-type: $filetype");

header("Content-length", $size);

header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename");

header("Content-Description: File download");



echo fread(fopen("$doc_path/$file", "r"), filesize("$doc_path/$file")); 

$doc_path here points to the directory where the files are located.