dear webmaster i got 2 questions

1 am building a game site for downloading and i want a count download on a file clicked before it can be downloaded
2 do i save the downloaded files in a folder or database

hope 2 read ur replys

i have a free script i developed that you can use. Besides there are lots of them scripts all over the web.
I think the problem is that, you dont know how to set it up iight?

I found a java script already it works
How download files do i save them in a database or folder

save the files in a secured folder and save the links to the folder in the db.

you can also include a script that masks the url and generates a random number of characters to replace the url, eg

instead of = http://www.mysite.com/foldname/filetodownload.zip

then you will have = http://www.mysite.com/i4m1337fml

Q 1. To achieve this you will need to create a download processor script - I mean a script that handles the content, does the counting (probably by incremementing a count field stored in a db with the filename or file id as key) and sending the content to the user. This is coz normal linking to the file like this: http://mysite.com/file.ext wont work for d count.
A simple analogy to the download processor script (in PHP) is this:

//mysite.com/download.php?fileid=someID
//Get the original file, mime type and source from where-ever its stored (db for ex) using fileid GET field
if (is_file($path_to_content)) {
header("Content-Type: ".$mime_type);
header("Content-Length: ".filesize($path_to_content));
readfile($path_to_content);
//Do your count here by setting the db count field for this file to + 1
}
else {
// some error,
}

By the way, why do u want to count before downloading? Why not after? If you also have an intermediate knowledge of PHP (and you are scripting wit it), check out the PEAR Package: HTTP_Download (http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Download)
Q 2. Save in a secured folder (as suggested by Cactus as well). DB storage is more resource consuming.

That pear package may be difficult for you to use if you are not used to php pear. But, though i wrote a script earlier on that processes download, masking and counting on my website - www.mwebng.net - but due to some minor bugs, i used http://www.zubrag.com/scripts/download.php
and later pimped it, but try it out first and if u have any bug, let me know

kehers:

Q 1. To achieve this you will need to create a download processor script - I mean a script that handles the content, does the counting (probably by incremementing a count field stored in a db with the filename or file id as key) and sending the content to the user. This is coz normal linking to the file like this: http://mysite.com/file.ext wont work for d count.
A simple analogy to the download processor script (in PHP) is this:By the way, why do u want to count before downloading? Why not after? If you also have an intermediate knowledge of PHP (and you are scripting wit it), check out the PEAR Package: HTTP_Download (http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Download)
Q 2. Save in a secured folder (as suggested by Cactus as well). DB storage is more resource consuming.

wasere men!
@kehers, aside php, what other language do you use?

@webdezzi
I use PHP solely for server side web development. I do J2ME for mobile development though.

Can u drop it number pls

i was tryin to learn that j2me one time like that, but mehn, i had to escape! i suspect i was not exposed to oop then.

Ok thanks 4 d reply thats d last of my agenda on my list d saving of files will check it out on web thanks

@webdezzi
Sorry for d late reply. Here: 08066887840

thanks for the reply i cant seem to find a toturial on linking file path to database
you said save files to folder and file path to database i need a little help on dat
thanks

webdezzi: Can u drop it number pls

Webdezzi was like a toddler back then, just starting to walk.

donjayzi:
Webdezzi was like a toddler back then, just starting to walk.

we needed programmers to collaborate with then.
we were getting loads of coders who coulsn't deliver.

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Tval:

I like your website.

Thank you very much, i appreciate that.