Force Downloads Of Quicktime .mov Files

[Beeronius]

I recently put all of the videos on my site on Google Video, but I want people to still be able to download the (much better looking) .MOV versions that I keep on the site; however, without "save target as"-ing (and it's FireFox, Opera, etc, etc equivalents), the file will stream. Aside from putting the file in a ZIP archive, is there any way to force the download? I haven't found any help elsewhere...

 

Example of one of the pages in question: http://www.sjbmx.com/videos_06assorted.php

[nortk]

I don't know if you can do that from the programming end of things. I do know that you can change an option within the browser to save rather than run the file. For example, Firefox offers Tools -> Options -> Content -> Manage Files, where you can browse to the .MOV extension and tell it you want to download the files.

[TCH-Bruce]

This script has worked for me in the past.

 

><?php
/*  setup  - create a PHP file called fdownload.php with the lines below.

Change the $filedir to point to you path on the server

Call from a link like this: 

<a href="www.******/fdownload.php?file=yourfilename">

*/

$filedir = "/home/yourcpanelname/public_html/";

$file = "$filedir".$_GET['file']."";
if (file_exists(basename($file))) {
header("Content-Description: File Transfer");
header("Content-Type: application/force-download");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".basename($file));
readfile($file);
} else {
echo "$file<br>";
echo basename($file);
echo "<br>No File Found";
}
?>

[Beeronius]

This script has worked for me in the past.

 

><?php
/*  setup  - create a PHP file called fdownload.php with the lines below.

Change the $filedir to point to you path on the server

Call from a link like this: 

<a href="www.******/fdownload.php?file=yourfilename">

*/

$filedir = "/home/yourcpanelname/public_html/";

$file = "$filedir".$_GET['file']."";
if (file_exists(basename($file))) {
header("Content-Description: File Transfer");
header("Content-Type: application/force-download");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".basename($file));
readfile($file);
} else {
echo "$file<br>";
echo basename($file);
echo "<br>No File Found";
}
?>

 

Thanks, Bruce. I'll try that out when I get home from work.

[Beeronius]

Couldn't get that one to work, but I finally found one that works, anyway. I never even thought of searching for "force download script"; I'd been searching for "force download php" the whole time.

 

http://elouai.com/force-download.php

[TCH-Bruce]

I've used that one too. Sorry the first one did not work for you.

[Beeronius]

I've used that one too. Sorry the first one did not work for you.

 

Oh, its no problem. I probably messed up in setting it up, anyway.

[carbonize]

Why not just add this to your .htaccess

 

AddType application/octet-stream .mov