| Re: Can I download file with address like this "http://***.com/file.php/ABC.html" automatically ? [message #184031 is a reply to message #184028] |
Tue, 03 December 2013 10:09   |
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On 03/12/13 03:10, zhangfj(at)gmail(dot)com wrote:
> Thank you for your informative reply.
>
> Briefly, my problem is that I can't download the file by programming.
> I want to change "ABC" in the URL to download files automatically from one site.
>
You need to have a link top a PHP program that reads the file, then sets
up headers top tell the browser that it is not (to be understood to be)
an HTML: page, but a file download, and then sends the file.
so if your program was say -getfile.php and the file was 'rubbish.html'
<?php
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"rubbish.html\"");
header("Content-Type: text/plain");
$data=file_get_contents("rubbish.html");
echo($data);
and that's it. No closing ?> should be used so there is no danger of
setting characters NOT in the file itself - the script exits still in
'php mode'
in your main page use
<a href="getfile.php">Download the file here</a>
Setting the content-disposition to 'attachment' strongly suggests to the
browser that the contents should not be displayed as HTML but should be
downloaded instead. However this behaviour is never 100% guaranteed.
instead of a local filename you can use a URL as well, if you are trying
to 'scrape' another website.
curl() will give you more control if you need it than
file_get_contents() for that.
http://us1.php.net/manual/en/curl.examples-basic.php
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