[PHP] Download Link !

2005-03-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
When I purchased a website template from templatemonster.com, they sent 
the download link to my email, this link was active for only 2 or 3 days 
then it became inactive.

Now I'm writing a script for selling website templates, the templates 
are uploaded to a certain folder, when someone buys a template a 
download link must be sent to his/her email address, and must  be active 
for only 2 or 3 days..

Anyone have an idea how to start or where to start?
Any link, any tutorial?
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[PHP] Download Link !

2005-03-25 Thread Ken
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:25:09 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:
 Hello,

 When I purchased a website template from templatemonster.com, they sent
 the download link to my email, this link was active for only 2 or 3 days
 then it became inactive.

 Now I'm writing a script for selling website templates, the templates
 are uploaded to a certain folder, when someone buys a template a
 download link must be sent to his/her email address, and must  be active
 for only 2 or 3 days..

 Anyone have an idea how to start or where to start?
 Any link, any tutorial?

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A quick outline:

when a user purchases something, enter an unique string (try
md5(microtime()) although it's not completely unique) into the
database.

make a script that verifies the string...
verify.php?unique=12345user=johndoe

in verify.php you'd have something that compares $_GET['unique'] to
the database value, same with $_GET['user']

Then if that's good, send the download link. However, I would use
headers for downloads. By doing this you can place your template files
outside your web directory, which will make it more secure, obviously.

if you know how to use pear then i suggest using http_download. if you
don't, have a look at the fpassthru bit in the manual.

http://www.php.net/fpassthru

hth... it was a bit too simple but you have the general idea now :D

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Re: [PHP] Download Link !

2005-03-25 Thread maillists
On Friday 25 March 2005 14:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hello,

 When I purchased a website template from templatemonster.com, they sent
 the download link to my email, this link was active for only 2 or 3 days
 then it became inactive.

 Now I'm writing a script for selling website templates, the templates
 are uploaded to a certain folder, when someone buys a template a
 download link must be sent to his/her email address, and must  be active
 for only 2 or 3 days..

 Anyone have an idea how to start or where to start?
 Any link, any tutorial?

http://www.oscommerce.com has what you need.

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[PHP] download link

2002-06-11 Thread Kris Vose

are there any php functions that handle downloads?  For Instance I want to create a 
link that contains a url string.  In this string a variable is defined as a file.  
This file will be downloaded when the user clicks on the link.  How do you handle this 
file in php?  Is there a function that will do this.  I have tried the copy function 
but it does not seems to work.

Kris

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Re: [PHP] download link

2002-06-11 Thread Adam Voigt

You mean like:
?php

$file = whatever.exe;
echo a href=\downloads/$file\Get This File/a;

?

Which would make a download link for downloads/whatever.exe in HTML?

Adam Voigt
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On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 11:43, Kris Vose wrote:
 are there any php functions that handle downloads?  For Instance I want to create a 
link that contains a url string.  In this string a variable is defined as a file.  
This file will be downloaded when the user clicks on the link.  How do you handle 
this file in php?  Is there a function that will do this.  I have tried the copy 
function but it does not seems to work.
 
 Kris
 
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