Download original file in Matrix theme

mbrown

Joined: 2008-04-23
Posts: 20

Posted: Thu, 2008-04-24 00:37

Hi all I have been racking my brain trying to find a solution to this.

I am trying to set up so a logged in client can download an original file. At the moment it opens the file very large in another browser window. I just want them to download it to a location on their computer. There must be a way to do this, I have tried different methods and ended up stuffing up my test site, so obviously I am too stoopid to work it out.

Unfortunately I am not as clever as you guys and don't the programming knowledge you have. So if anyone has a solution, please try and keep it in noob talk for me.

Cheers
Mick Brown

Gallery version = 2.2.4 core 1.2.0.6
PHP version = 5.2.4 apache
Webserver = Apache
Database = mysqlt 5.0.45-community, lock.system=flock
Toolkits = Dcraw, Exif, Getid3, LinkItemToolkit, Thumbnail, Gd, ImageMagick, NetPBM
Acceleration = none, none
Operating system = Linux fusion.websiteactive.com 2.6.9-55.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed May 2 14:04:42 EDT 2007 x86_64
Default theme = matrix
gettext = disabled
Locale = en_US
Browser = Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_2; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Safari/525.18
Rows in GalleryAccessMap table = 399
Rows in GalleryAccessSubscriberMap table = 629
Rows in GalleryUser table = 7
Rows in GalleryItem table = 617
Rows in GalleryAlbumItem table = 36
Rows in GalleryCacheMap table = 0

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floridave

Joined: 2003-12-22
Posts: 11234

Posted: Sat, 2008-04-26 02:42

There has been some discussion about this in the forums before.
You can modify a core file but that will result in sort urls not functioning properly (if you want short urls).
Search the forums and you should find some of the discussion(s). Here is one:
http://gallery.menalto.com/node/38231#comment-140984

Alternatively you can implement somthing similar to:
http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/creating/forcedownload.html
but it becomes a big security risk as files on the server can be compromised.

Dave
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floridave

Joined: 2003-12-22
Posts: 11234

Posted: Mon, 2008-06-02 03:56

New module: http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Modules:downloadlink

Dave
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mbrown Joined: 2008-04-23 Posts: 20	Posted: Thu, 2008-04-24 00:37
	Hi all I have been racking my brain trying to find a solution to this. I am trying to set up so a logged in client can download an original file. At the moment it opens the file very large in another browser window. I just want them to download it to a location on their computer. There must be a way to do this, I have tried different methods and ended up stuffing up my test site, so obviously I am too stoopid to work it out. Unfortunately I am not as clever as you guys and don't the programming knowledge you have. So if anyone has a solution, please try and keep it in noob talk for me. Cheers Mick Brown Gallery version = 2.2.4 core 1.2.0.6 PHP version = 5.2.4 apache Webserver = Apache Database = mysqlt 5.0.45-community, lock.system=flock Toolkits = Dcraw, Exif, Getid3, LinkItemToolkit, Thumbnail, Gd, ImageMagick, NetPBM Acceleration = none, none Operating system = Linux fusion.websiteactive.com 2.6.9-55.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed May 2 14:04:42 EDT 2007 x86_64 Default theme = matrix gettext = disabled Locale = en_US Browser = Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_2; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Safari/525.18 Rows in GalleryAccessMap table = 399 Rows in GalleryAccessSubscriberMap table = 629 Rows in GalleryUser table = 7 Rows in GalleryItem table = 617 Rows in GalleryAlbumItem table = 36 Rows in GalleryCacheMap table = 0
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floridave Joined: 2003-12-22 Posts: 11234	Posted: Sat, 2008-04-26 02:42
	There has been some discussion about this in the forums before. You can modify a core file but that will result in sort urls not functioning properly (if you want short urls). Search the forums and you should find some of the discussion(s). Here is one: http://gallery.menalto.com/node/38231#comment-140984 Alternatively you can implement somthing similar to: http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/creating/forcedownload.html but it becomes a big security risk as files on the server can be compromised. Dave _____________________________________________ Blog & G2 \|\| floridave - Gallery Team
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floridave Joined: 2003-12-22 Posts: 11234	Posted: Mon, 2008-06-02 03:56
	New module: http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Modules:downloadlink Dave _____________________________________________ Blog & G2 \|\| floridave - Gallery Team
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