Forcing the browser to download a music file

[Irfan12]

i dont know php & i want a script that when a user click on a mp3 hyperlink, the mp3 file start downloading instead of start playing in media player.
i got a sxript from internet search.
i am using the following code

<?php
          $filename = "path/to/file/filname.ext";
          if(!file_exists($filename)) {
              die("File does not exist!");
          }
          header("Pragma: public");
          header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
          header("Cache-Control: private",false);
          header("Content-Disposition: attachment;   filename=\"".basename($filename)."\";" );
          header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
          header("Content-Type: PHP Generated Data");
          header("Content-Length: ".filesize($filename));
          readfile("$filename");
          exit();
?>
 

i have saved this code with name download.php
every time code give error message that "File does not exist!"
i have uploaded the download.php file in the same directory where the mp3 file is uploaded and i am using the folliwing hyper link code in the html file

<a target="_blank" href="download.php?location=ABC.mp3">downlaod ABC</a>

index.html, download.php and ABC.mp3 are in the same directory
in IE-7 it start downloading file with the name i specified in the code, but with size 27bytes, abd after opening this file in notepad i get the error "File does not exist!". BUT in Mozilla firefox it give same erroe message in a new window.

can anyone tell me what is the problem???????
Thanx

[Hackles]

Just an amendment to the last post: As far as I know of, it is impossible to set the FilesMatch rule for a specific directory (I've tried .htaccess, nesting within a Directory rule, even adding a path to the regex for the FilesMatch rule, but it doesn't seem to work). I guess that'd be a slight downside, not being able to control which directory falls under direct download control.
An alternative (that achieves the same result) is:

AddType application/octet-stream .mp3
 

The benefit of the above handler (which goes in httpd.conf) is that you don't need mod_headers enabled.
Note that any changes to httpd.conf will require a server restart.
Hope this helps...
Have fun!

[Irfan12]

Thanks for reply,
but as i said in the start that i dont know even PHP, than how can i understand what is to change and where to change/add your give Code.
i am using linux webserver, kindly tell me the simplest way so that there may be a resume support in downloading,
In adddation to my last post, i want to tell that Mozilla firefox's download box have the resume support, but download accelerator dont have resume support.

thakyou

[Irfan12]

Just an amendment to the last post: As far as I know of, it is impossible to set the FilesMatch rule for a specific directory (I've tried .htaccess, nesting within a Directory rule, even adding a path to the regex for the FilesMatch rule, but it doesn't seem to work). I guess that'd be a slight downside, not being able to control which directory falls under direct download control.
An alternative (that achieves the same result) is:

AddType application/octet-stream .mp3
 

The benefit of the above handler (which goes in httpd.conf) is that you don't need mod_headers enabled.
Note that any changes to httpd.conf will require a server restart.
Hope this helps...
Have fun!

Thanks for your code,
i am using download accelerator to do download my files but it gives error message in start of downloading that "resume not supported". means if user lost his connection than it is not possible to start/resume download from the broken state. Means that if a user is downloading 3 mb file, and after 2 mb of download if user lost internet connection, or due to power failure, than the user will lost 2 mb, and user must start downlaoding from the beginning.
Actualy, when i use download.php for forced download than there is no resume supprt, but when i use normal downloading (means to right click on link and select "save target as...") than there is a resume support, but by using download.php (above given code) there is no resume support.
Kindly tell me is there any problem in the above code, or what should i do?????
Thankyou

[whiteyoh]

hi all,

i have been following this thread with much interest, and it works fine, except for one thing.......

when downloading it prefixes the file with .html. so for example, a fill downloads as mymusic.mp3.htm l

how can i get it to scrap the HTML bit?

[pbmods]

Heya, whiteyoh.

Check out this article (http://www.phpit.net/code/force-download/).