I am making a PHP script that will download a file given a name and a version. The files will be stored on the server like this:
/dl/Project1/1.0.txt
/dl/Project1/1.1.txt
/dl/Project2/2.3.jar
/dl/Project2/2.3.1.jar
And the paths to retrieve such files would look like this:
download.php?name=Project1&type=txt&version=1.0
download.php?name=Project1&type=txt&version=1.1
download.php?name=Project2&type=jar&version=2.3
download.php?name=Project2&type=jar&version=2.3.1
The issue arises when actually downloading the files. In this example, I want the first two files to both download as Project1.txt, and I want the last two to download as Project2.jar. How can I rename these temporarily to allow this to work?
Send out a header defining the file's name.
$filename = $name . "." . $type;
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=' . $filename);
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate');
header('Pragma: public');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
I've included additional headers, since you should send out these as well. This is just a modified example of what you can see in the PHP documentation on readfile
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You don't need to rename it, you just need to change the name in the header, there is the script:
<?php
// Check is set all params
if (isset($_GET['name'], $_GET['type'], $_GET['version'])) {
// Get the params into variables.
// Secure replace to avoid the user downloading anyfile like @Kristian Antonsen said.
// Replace all '..' to a single '.';
$name = preg_replace('/[\.]{2,}/', '.', trim($_GET['name']));
// Replace any strange characters.
$type = preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9]/', '', trim($_GET['type']));
// Replace any letter and strange character.
$version = preg_replace('/[^0-9\.]/', '', trim($_GET['version']));
/**
* Check is all the params filled with text
* and check if the version is in the right format.
*/
if (!empty($name) &&
!empty($type) &&
!empty($version) &&
preg_match('/^[0-9](\.[0-9])+$', $version)) {
/**
* Get the file path, here we use 'dirname' to get the absolute path
* if the download.php is on root
*/
$filePath = dirname(__FILE__) . '/dl/' . $name . '/' . $version . '.' . $type;
// Check if the file exist.
if (file_exists($filePath)) {
// Add headers
header('Cache-Control: public');
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=' . $name . '.' . $type);
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($filePath));
// Read file
readfile($filePath);
} else {
die('File does not exist');
}
} else {
die('Missing params');
}
}
You probably want to simply use the content-disposition header:
header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename=Project1.txt');
readfile('Project1/1.0.txt');