How to Make Dynamic Download Here Link

Many times, we will come across some situations seeing  Download Here  Links  on so many websites, Will they  place actual File in the Download Here Link ??   Answer  is No.  Then  How to acheive this  through Programmatically,  This Tutorial will guide you how you can  develope your own Dynamic Download Here Links, with out  giving out access to the actual file name.

Lets get into the discussion.

Inorder to acheive this Dynamic Download Here Link we have to play with   header()  in PHP.

PHP will give you flexibility to choose your  actual content-type .

Lets  see two examples How we can obtain this Dynamic Downlod Here link  for  PDF  and EXE ..

Dynamic Download Here link  for PDF  File

Here is the piece of code

Create Download.php  and  paste the following code into the file

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<?php
 
$file="GIVE_PATH_TO_ACTUAL_FILE_with_extension";
 
header('Content-type: application/pdf');
 
// It will be called downloaded.pdf
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="GIVE_MASKED_NAME"');
 
// The PDF source is in original.pdf
readfile('$file');
 
?>

The Above Code  will focus on  Only Core activity of Downloading a PDF File.  Depending on  our requirements we can customize to suit our application requirements.

1.  Handling Sessions to give away PDF to the  Authenticated users  Preventing others from download
2. Custom Naming of File Depending on the Time

Dynamic Download Here Link for EXE File

As  same as above   Here is the piece

Create Download.php  and  paste the following code into the file

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<?php
 
$file="ACTUAL_FILE_PATH_FOR_YOUR_EXE_FILE";
 
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=CUSTOM_NAME_FOR_YOUR_DISPLAY_FILE_NAME" );
header("Content-Type: application/force-download");
header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Type: application/download");
header("Content-Description: File Transfer");
header("Content-Length: " . filesize($file));
flush(); // this doesn't really matter.
 
$fp = fopen($file, "r");
while (!feof($fp))
{
echo fread($fp, 65536);
flush(); // this is essential for large downloads
}
fclose($fp);
 
?>

The Above Code is helpful for CORE activity of  Download of EXE File.

Customize, your application using above code

Happy Coding !!

Written by : adrevol
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