You can try an <iframe></iframe>, this will let you load 2 different pages on one browser. When people click on a file you will send them to dlfile.php?urlid=excel-book (the page with the iframes)

Content for dlfile.php:

<iframe src="download.php?urlid=<?=$_GET['urlid']?>"></iframe>
<iframe src="dl_click.php?urlid=<?=$_GET['urlid']?>"></iframe>

With this method you will need to also create the php file "dl_click.php", but it is easy. dl_click.php is very similar to download.php.

Copy download.php and replace:

header('Content-Description: File Transfer'); 
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream'); 
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.basename($file_path)); 
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary'); 
header('Expires: 0'); 
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0'); 
header('Pragma: public'); 
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file_path)); 
ob_clean(); 
flush(); 
readfile($file_path); 

with this:

<a href="<?=basename($file_path)?>">Click here if download did not start after 5 seconds</a>

I hope this helps you accomplish what you need.

You are a very big help. I do not know how to thank you.

Thanks a lot.

Alex

HI again,

I have a little problem

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in /home/fhlinux199/s/spreadsheet123.com/user/htdocs/dl_click.php on line 38

Now on line 38 in my code I have this link: <a href="<?=basename($file_path)?>">Click here if download did not start after 5 seconds</a>.

This is how it looks like:

# Query for file info
$res = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `Files` WHERE `file_display_name`='".$file_code."'") or die ( mysql_error() );

# If query is empty, there is a bad code name
# This catches possible hacking attempt.
if( mysql_num_rows($res) == 0 )
{
echo 'There will be no hacking on this website! ';
exit();
}

# Save file info into an array called "$info"
$info = mysql_fetch_assoc($res);

# File path is below
$file_path = $path_to_file_directory.$info['file_name'];

# Now push the download through the browser
# There is more than 1 way to do this.
if (file_exists($file_path)) {
<a href="<?=basename($file_path)?>">Click here if download did not start after 5 seconds</a>
exit;
}

Do you know what may cause a problem there?

i am sorry, here is the revised code for line 38:

echo '<a href="'.basename($file_path).'">Click here if download did not start after 5 seconds</a> ';

If you have more errors just let me know...i never tested this code, i just typed it out here. =/

it has worked partly, but still has an error.

now it is giving me a link as it should have, but the link points to the wrong direction.

[mysite.com...] when it should point to [mysite.com...] or at least to [mysite.com...]

so it takes /files/ out of it for some reason

try this:

echo '<a href="'.$file_path.'">Click here if download did not start after 5 seconds</a> ';