PHP Forum

**Smudly** · 10-21-2010, 01:17 AM

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out the best way to determine if a user is currently downloading a file from my website.
The way my site works, is the user waits 30 seconds and views an ad. After the timer is up the download becomes available.
I heard that I could probably use a timestamp or something of the sort. I've read up on it but not sure how I could go about this.

**webmastertalker** · 10-22-2010, 07:18 AM

What's the programmation language used by your site script? php? asp?

**Smudly** · 10-22-2010, 10:47 AM

is this not a php forum? :P hehe

**chrishirst** · 10-22-2010, 01:50 PM

HTTP is a disconnected protocol so you can only tell if a resource (file) was requested.

**webmastertalker** · 10-22-2010, 06:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Smudly

is this not a php forum? :P hehe

hehe I was sleeping

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Anyway so why don't you provide the files to download trought a php gataway?

Let's say on you site visitor waits 30 seconds... then the download link should show in this form: yoursite.com/getfile.php?id=32323 ... in the header of this getfile.php you put the redirect to the real file resource relative to id 32323... and in this getfile.php you can also put a simple counter connected to your mysql database...

If do you need a working example hit me!

**Crimson** · 10-22-2010, 06:46 PM

Rapidshare does this, so I suppose it's possible. At least, I've heard that Rapidshare does this, from other people, I don't download things from that website myself, obviously..