[stephenkershaw]

Hi

I'm not a coder so don't know how to write this myself. I'm very much of the copy and paste type.

Basically I want a file to be downloaded and an email sent when either a link is clicked or a submit button is pressed.

This is so that when a particular file hosted on my site (a pdf) is downloaded I am alerted to this by an email notification.

Can anyone help me out with this?

Thanks in advance for your help

Stephen



- Programming Language - PHP, or other that will work
- Platform - Linux / windows
- Free or Paid - free
- Type of License - freeware

[Icepick.pt]

Try this one out

PHP Code:

<?php

 

// place this code inside a php file and call it f.e. "download.php"

$path = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/path2file/"; // change the path to fit your websites document structure

$fullPath = $path.$_GET['download_file'];

 

if ($fd = fopen ($fullPath, "r")) {

    $fsize = filesize($fullPath);

    $path_parts = pathinfo($fullPath);

    $ext = strtolower($path_parts["extension"]);

    switch ($ext) {

        case "pdf":

        header("Content-type: application/pdf"); // add here more headers for diff. extensions

        header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$path_parts["basename"]."\""); // use 'attachment' to force a download

        break;

        default;

        header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");

        header("Content-Disposition: filename=\"".$path_parts["basename"]."\"");

    }

    header("Content-length: $fsize");

    header("Cache-control: private"); //use this to open files directly

    while(!feof($fd)) {

        $buffer = fread($fd, 2048);

        echo $buffer;

    }

}

fclose ($fd);

exit;

// example: place this kind of link into the document where the file download is offered:

// <a href="download.php?download_file=some_file.pdf">Download here</a>

?>

I took it ou of this webpage, you may find more information about it there, or even contact it's author.

About emailing a warning, it is just a matter of adding php's mail() function somewhere inside, if the rest of the code suit's you.

[stephenkershaw]

Hi

I already came across this and have got it working.

Thanks for your help though

Stephen