For PHP Geniuses!!! I Have a Question

[Menan]

hi every one , this my first post.i am kind of new to php but i learned all of ur w3schoools tutorials. great and simple thanks. By the way my question is i saw some websites they let the people download files. but if u look at the direct download link it is like hidden.if u see gmail.com if u view ur .rar extension attachment u won't see it like .rar it will be some thing different. i think they used database but even if u use database u will be abe to see it.can some one tell me how they doing it.ThanksMenan

[jlhaslip]

I am not understanding the question here.

[Mr_CHISOL]

It's quite simple, this is just the basics, not much code. (The best way to learn is to figure out it at your own)Create a table (in a database, pref. use MySQL; I call it downloads here...) where you save info. about all files that the users should be able to download.(Columns coculd be: id, file, title, description, downloadcount etc.)Then You should create a admin. script that you can use to simply add the files.Create a script that shows all files/downloads.Here comes the big "secret":The downloadlink for each file should look someting like this

?do=download&file=$id or download.php?file=$id

where $id is the id of the file from the DB.Then the script that is called (either by include, in the first example, or a own file, last ex.)Should look something like this (This is "half pseudo"):

<?  $id = $_GET['file'];   // Open database...  ...  // Get file  $query = "SELECT file FROM downloads WHERE id=$id";  $db->RunQuery( $query );  // Depending on which db-motor you use, this will be different  $file = $db->GetResult();  // Here is the important thing;  header("Location: http://yoursite.com/files/$file");  // This line must be before any output (of HTML) // Close DB...?>

Hope you got it... :?)Good Luck, and don't panic