Comments on: Protecting a download using a unique URL

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:16:12 +0000

Great script, thanks so much.

Has anyone managed to integrate this with Paypal yet so the user gets their code right away?

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 01:39:38 +0000

Great script. Is there an easy way to have the link open a page then have the user click a download button instead of automatically starting the download? I want to present information then have the user input their email and agree to TOS before they can proceed with the download.

Thanks

By: Ken

Ken — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 16:35:36 +0000

I know this is old now but thought i’d update as I struggled to get this to work with multiple rar files being corrupted.

My only solution was to make an iso image of all the files then use it like this:

$mm_type=”application/iso”;
$file = “download.iso”;
$filename = “bogus_download_name.iso”;

header(“Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate”);
header(“Pragma: no-cache”);
header(“Content-Type: ” . $mm_type);
header(“Content-Length: ” .(string)(filesize($file)) );
header(‘Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=”‘.$filename.’”‘);
header(“Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary\n”);

ob_end_clean();
readfile($file);

Very usefull script indeed. thanksKe

By: vadim

vadim — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:10:38 +0000

I’m unable to force save as file. In my case I can see only source code of zip file in a different browsers, but there is no save as dialog.

By: vadim

vadim — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:40:13 +0000

Great idea. I think it will be better to make generated link clickable.

By: Kris

Kris — Wed, 19 May 2010 17:57:18 +0000

@alex

In the dbconnect.php, you need to edit the last line and insert “MYCPANELLOGINNAME_database” where it reads “download”. This line is calling the specific name of the database which I assume you didn’t name “download”.

By: alex

alex — Tue, 11 May 2010 06:07:26 +0000

Hi,

I’m pretty sure i set it up correctly but am getting the following error:

Download Key Generator
Access denied for user ‘MYCPANELLOGINNAME_USERNAME’@’localhost’ to database ‘download’.

I set all priviledges for the MYCPANELLOGINNAME_USERNAME to MYCPANELLOGINNAME_database? What am i doing wrong?

By: Vincent

Vincent — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 06:09:07 +0000

If it says ” Unknown column ‘uniqueid’ in ‘field list’ ”

i assume that means it cant find your database or the column named “uniqeid” in your database.

did you change the names when running your MySQL query to create the tables? if you did you have to change “uniqueid” to whichever column your keys are in.

By: Tim Sparks

Tim Sparks — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:52:06 +0000

Hey Ardamis,

This is a fantastically simple, clear and useful example. Thank you very, very, very much!

Tim

By: mpeter

mpeter — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:38:57 +0000

I’m getting the same error as DTS.
I have followed your instructions and everything worked except for the message:

Unknown column ‘uniqueid’ in ‘field list’

when trying to generate a downloadkey.

The download key is generated, but when I test the link I get the same error and nothing downloads.
It must be something with the mysql database.
Where have I gone wrong?