How to calculate how many downloads?

[Ben Xia]

Hello all:

I want to know how many successful downloads from website, is there some PHP
script can do this?

Let's say I have file "abc.zip" people can download, The system is
Apache+linux+php+mysql, how I can know exact how many successfully downloads
and the download time.

I know it can be done by weblog statistic, but I want to know is there some
way in php can do it so I can save in database and view real time result.

any help will be appreciate.

Ben

[Kimmo Laine]

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Hello all:

I want to know how many successful downloads from website, is there some
PHP script can do this?

Let's say I have file "abc.zip" people can download, The system is
Apache+linux+php+mysql, how I can know exact how many successfully
downloads and the download time.

I know it can be done by weblog statistic, but I want to know is there
some way in php can do it so I can save in database and view real time
result.

any help will be appreciate.

Make a file called download.php:
<?php
if(file_exists($file=$_REQUEST['file'])) {
header("Content-type: application/force-download");
header("Content-Length: ".filesize($file));
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$file");
readfile($file);
file_put_contents('counter.log', file_get_contents('counter.log')+1);
} else {
header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
}
?>

And make a downloadlink <a href="download.php?file=abc.zip">download</a>

Although this counts only attempted downloads, not succesful ones.

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[PH]

>

Although this counts only attempted downloads, not succesful ones.

Hi, how would you solve succesful downloads counter?

PH

[John Dunlop]

Kimmo Laine wrote:

application/force-download

Is this documented somewhere?

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Jock

[Kimmo Laine]

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Kimmo Laine wrote:

application/force-download

Is this documented somewhere?

That I don't know. It's widely used, but I'm not sure if it is documented
anywhere.

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[John Dunlop]

Kimmo Laine wrote:

[re application/force-download]

It's widely used, but I'm not sure if it is documented anywhere.

I did do a Google, but it only confirmed that it's widely used.

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Jock

[Chung Leong]

Using a piped log is probably the best solution. See the Apache
documentation for more info. Using PHP to serve downloads is not
terribly efficient.

[Malcolm Dew-Jones]

John Dunlop (us*********@john.dunlop.name) wrote:
: Kimmo Laine wrote:

: [re application/force-download]

: > It's widely used, but I'm not sure if it is documented anywhere.

: I did do a Google, but it only confirmed that it's widely used.

google: "list of mime types"
should turn up the official list of registered mime types.

Since it isn't an X- sub-type then it should either be on that list, or
else it should not be used. If it isn't on the list then by rights that
should be something like X-force-download. As for being documented, if it
isn't registered then there can't be any "official" documentation, simply
common usage and individual opinions.

I suspect it isn't on the list, but on the other hand a browser could
easily (in theory) be unaware of recent mime-types and is supposed to fall
back to some other default if it doesn't know the sub-type anyway, so if
it works then surely little or no harm can come of using it.
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[John Dunlop]

F'ups directed away from a.p.sql.

Malcolm Dew-Jones wrote:

[re application/force-download]

As for being documented, if it isn't registered then there can't be any
"official" documentation, simply common usage and individual opinions.
There could be application-specific documentation, which is what I
was after.
I suspect it isn't on the list, [IANA's list of registered types]
It's not. It isn't registered and doesn't follow RFC2046's form of
private types.
but on the other hand a browser could easily (in theory) be unaware of
recent mime-types
or even older ones!
and is supposed to fall back to some other default if it doesn't know
the sub-type anyway,
Right, application/octet-stream, in the case of application subtypes.
so if it works then surely little or no harm can come of using it.

application/force-download, lacking a 'rigorous and public
definition', violates a 'must' condition of MIME, and depending on
your interpretation of RFC2616, it might or might not violate HTTP/1.1.

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Jock

[Manchild]

PH wrote:

Although this counts only attempted downloads, not succesful ones.

Hi, how would you solve succesful downloads counter?

PH

Nothing to stop you slipping a SQL statement in at the end of the page.
So long as it outputs nothing to the 'page' itself it should do the job

J