Topic: Help with scripts to download mp3 files to a client

[uc7]

Hi All,

I'm pretty new at PHP so I hope this isn't too easy. I did spent the requisite two hours banging my head on a keyboard before posting it however.

My wife has a site, and she has some mp3 songs on it people will download. I'm looking for a script that will download the mp3 file to the client PC.

From the manual site I found this:

Code: [Select]

<?php

@ob_end_clean();
// Only allow mp3 files
$allowedFileType = "mp3";

// Set the filename based on the URL's query string
$theFile = $_REQUEST['theFile'];


// Get info about the file
$f = pathinfo($theFile);

// Check the extension against allowed file types
if(strtolower($f['extension']) != strtolower($allowedFileType)) exit;

// Make sure the file exists
if (!file_exists($theFile)) exit;

// Set headers
header("Pragma: public");
header("Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT");
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate");
header("Cache-Control: private");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
header("Content-Type: audio/x-mpeg, audio/x-mpeg-3, audio/mpeg3");
// This line causes the browser's "save as" dialog
header( 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$f['basename'].'"' );
// Length required for Internet Explorer
header("Content-Length: ".@urldecode(@filesize($theFile)));

// Open file
if (($f = fopen($theFile, 'rb')) === false) exit;


// Push file
while (!feof($f)) {
   echo fread($f, (1*(1024*1024))); 
   flush(); 
   @ob_flush();
}

// Close file
fclose($f); 
exit;

?>
However copying it into the header of a html file, and opening with ~./fileget.php?file=nameOfSong.mp3, where the mp3 file is in the same folder as the php script gets me this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ECHO in /home/sites/lolipop.jp/users/lolipop.jp-dp39285170/web/dev/gospel/dload/oto/fileget.php on line 43

Line 43 is "echo fread($f, (1*(1024*1024))); "
Tried changing it from echo fread($f, (1*(1024*1024))); to echo fread($f, (8*(1024*1024))); and the error changed again.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/sites/lolipop.jp/users/lolipop.jp-dp39285170/web/dev/gospel/dload/oto/fileget.php on line 44

[PFMaBiSmAd]

The posted code does not produce a php parse error. There must be something present in your actual source file that the copy/paste into the forum post filtered out.

I would recommend copy/pasting what you posted here into a completely new file and trying it.