RE: [PHP] PHP5 - How Do I Let Users Download Music Files?

Thanks Anders and Daniel. Daniel, I like your approach. I want to make it as secure as possible. I'm going to place the files outside the web directory and use authentication to approve that the user can download some particular song. I didn't know you could do a forced download. I will definitely have to try that. Thanks again. Nilaab -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Schierbeck [mailto:dasch@ulmail.net] Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 5:45 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP5 - How Do I Let Users Download Music Files? php-list@xenonsolutions.com wrote: > Hello everyone, > > > > I want to build a music site, all copyrights intact, and I want users to be > able to download mp3 or realplayer files using a one-click link. When they > click on a link they will simply be given a typical download window to save > that music file. How do I go about doing that and how should my file > structure work? What should the link include? Is it possible to just say, > for example, http://somesite.com/music/something.mp3? If you want more control over the files you could have the mp3's in a private directory, then using PHP to force a download. There are some other threads about the Content-Type header, which is probably what you're looking for Imagine that your file, 3416.mp3 is in /songs. 3416 is the song ID, so you can grab info such as artist, album and song name from a DB. Below is download.php, to download 3416.mp3, you should type download.php?file=3416 <?php if (!isset($_GET['file']) or !file_exists('songs/' . $_GET['file'] . '.mp3')) { die("No file selected"); } else { $file = $_GET['file']; } $db = mysql_connect(); // More DB stuff $artist = $row['artist']; // The artist name from the DB $album = $row['album']; // ... $song = $row['song']; // ... $filename = $artist . '-' . $album . '-' . $song . '.mp3'; header('Content-Type: application/force-download'); header('Content-Length: ' . filesize('songs/'.$file.'.mp3')); header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . $filename . '"'); header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary'); readfile('songs/' . $file . 'mp3'); exit(); ?> > Also, if I wanted them > to listen to streamed music does PHP have any specialized functions I could > use to achieve that? You should take a look at the Ming library and the mp3 stream function (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.swfmovie.streammp3.php). It's a bit tricky though, but i can't think of anything else. -- Daniel Schierbeck -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php