Re: Downloading file from local network machine

["Bastien Koert" <phpster@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Ashley Sheridan <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 17:32 +0000, Mayer, Jonathan wrote:
> > Thanks Wolf :)
> >
> > Yup, I had considered that, although there could be up to 8 different
> servers so that's 8 seperately mapped drives.
> >
> > If that's the simplest/neatest way, I'll do that, although I did wonder
> whether there was some other clever another way around it.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wolf [mailto:lonewolf@xxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 05 December 2008 17:29
> > To: Mayer, Jonathan; php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re:  Downloading file from local network machine
> >
> > <!-- SNIP -->
> > > I  would like to present users to our internal intranet with a link to
> > > download a file from a folder on a different machine on our local
> > > network (such as \\computername\folder\file)
> > <!-- SNIP -->
> >
> > Map the drive to the server so that it is accessible as /folder/file on
> the website.
> >
> > Voila, no more problem.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Wolf
> >
> >
> I don't have the code to hand right now, but I can try and post it
> later. You were on the right track with fread() et al. Basically, set
> the correct headers for a download (application/octet-stream I believe)
> and print out the results of the fread(). Don't forget the binary flag
> on fread() if you are opening binary files, and it should create a file
> that auto-downloads. There are extra headers to set the default filename
> of the download, but I forget these at the moment. A Google should give
> you what you need though. This way, the file can even be delivered to
> someone outside of your network should you wish, without you needing to
> put the file in a web-accessible directory.
>
>
> Ash
> www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>
>
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function force_download($file)
{
    $dir      = "../log/exports/";
    if ((isset($file))&&(file_exists($dir.$file))) {
       header("Content-type: application/force-download");
       header('Content-Disposition: inline; filename="' . $dir.$file . '"');

       header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: Binary");
       header("Content-length: ".filesize($dir.$file));
       header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
       header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . $file . '"');
       readfile("$dir$file");
    } else {
       echo "No file selected";
    } //end if

}//end function


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