Links that trigger download
Hi
I want to know what can I do so that if a link is clicked a pictures promopts for downloading, similarly a PDF and a text file starts downloading upong clicking a link?
Thanx
Max
Hi
I want to know what can I do so that if a link is clicked a pictures promopts for downloading, similarly a PDF and a text file starts downloading upong clicking a link?
Thanx
Max
DarkLight posted this at 17:08 — 1st December 2007.
He has: 287 posts
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Hi, welcome to TWF.
I believe this is what you need...
<P>Click<A HREF="javascript:oDownload.startDownload('img.jpg', onDownloadDone)">here</A> to download this
image.
Let me know how it goes.
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Maxal posted this at 19:05 — 1st December 2007.
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Joined: Dec 2007
Thanx for the prompt help ChildOfEvil, but unfortunately your trick isn't working for me
Though I corrected one "o" of "onDownload", but still it didn't work. Here is my complete code with image name/location:
<a href="javascript:onDownload.startDownload('http://www.thebest404s/images/stories/autoxd1.gif', onDownloadDone)"><img src="http://www.thebest404s/images/stories/autoxd1.gif" alt="autoxd1.gif" title="autoxd1.gif" style="margin: 5px; width: 300px; height: 201px" border="0" height="201" width="300" /></a>'DarkLight posted this at 19:45 — 1st December 2007.
He has: 287 posts
Joined: Oct 2007
Hi, Sorry about that then, I cannot think of another way to do it. I am not sure that browsers like this behaviour anyways.
Like I said, it take about 2 seconds to Zip the file, and it will make visitors happier, as it will compress them, and make them quicker to download.
Plus a lot of people (including myself) are not too happy about downloading a direct file.
This is because they dont have chance to scan the file before they download, you might think of the term: "Risk it for a biscuit". whereas in a zip file, it is contained until the user is satisfied they have done a thourough safety check.
I know you dont intend to upload a virus, but how do your visitors know that, just the other day I gave Microsoft a bolocking for giving me a sh!t load of rubbish for my browser, i scanned it and i found 2 spyware contained inside the zip file.
If they gave me the files unzipped, the virus would have had chance to distribute itself around my pc.
So you understand what I am saying?
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pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 21:09 — 1st December 2007.
He has: 1,502 posts
Joined: Sep 2006
One thing you could do is dedicate a directory to downloading files. Put an .htaccess file in that directory and put in this code:
<Files *.*>ForceType applicaton/octet-stream
</Files>
Then use regular tags to link to the files in that directory.
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