Looking for a script that sends email and dowloads file onlick or other

[stephenkershaw]

Hi

 

I'm not a coder so don't know how to write this myself. I'm very much of the copy and paste type.

 

Basically I want a file to be downloaded and an email sent when either a link is clicked or a submit button is pressed.

 

This is so that when a particular file hosted on my site (a pdf) is downloaded I am alerted to this by an email notification.

 

Can anyone help me out with this? I assume that this can be done with PHP and MySQL but am open to suggestions.

 

Thanks in advance for your help

 

Stephen

[stephenkershaw]

Have just thought that this could log the details of the person who is downloading the file instead of sending an email notification.

 

Not sure if that makes things easier?

[seanlim]

<a href="file.php">Download</a>
<form method="post" action="file.php">
<input type="submit">
</form>

 

file.php

<?php
mail("email@address.com", "File Downloaded" , "blah blah blah(include whatever info like ip address here)");
readfile("yourfilename.pdf");
?>

 

[stephenkershaw]

<a href="file.php">Download</a>
<form method="post" action="file.php">
<input type="submit">
</form>

 

file.php

<?php
mail("email@address.com", "File Downloaded" , "blah blah blah(include whatever info like ip address here)");
readfile("yourfilename.pdf");
?>

 

This looks like it is on the right lines but it is not working properly just now as the file I am linking to is a pdf. So when you click the link it loads up all the pdf as code instead of bringing up the download box.

 

Thanks for your help so far though.

[laffin]

because you still need the header content type (mime)

so add this to the top of file.php

header('Content-type: application/pdf');

 

 

[stephenkershaw]

All working now. Thanks for your help