Hi all,
im on a steep learning curve and trying to work out how to make a
downloadable link ?

IE: click here to download file

Many thanks in advance.

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<a href="url_of_file">click here to download file</a>

is the way it's done in HTML

Many thanks for that Chris.
Just tried that. But the files are "xxx.html" and it just shows the page..

will I have to rename the files ?

Paul
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Chris don't you need to have a FTP client to have downloadable links?

Originally Posted by g0hwc.com

Many thanks for that Chris.
Just tried that. But the files are "xxx.html" and it just shows the page..

will I have to rename the files ?

Paul
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You could, or you could use server side code to send the download as a generic or unknown mime type.

Originally Posted by AssaultM16

Chris don't you need to have a FTP client to have downloadable links?

Nope. HTTP downloads have been around a good number of years now

You could try taring, gzipping, or just plain zipping them. (Any archive would do). That would reduce bandwidth slightly. Also you could have them right click and save as.

Many thanks for all the help with this.
I have now zipped the files and works a treat..

Thanks again

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I know you have a solution, but the fundamental problem with most browsers is that if it thinks it can display the file (html, jpeg, txt) then it will. If it doesn't know how then it will offer to download / store the file (zip, doc, xls etc).

pdf is a slightly grey area depending upon whether you've got the reader installed, but I guess 99% have. You can always save the file once the reader has displayed it.

So the trick to force a download is to get your file in a format (with an extension) that browsers won't / can't display.

No, the trick is throwing a generic/unknown header for the file that forces it to download it.