Hiding direct download link path from the browswer

<?php
$id = $_GET['id'];
$links = array(
"dl" => "http://www.domains.com/path/to/file.zip"
);

header("Location:".$links[$id]);
exit;
?>

Save this file as mydown.php and when you give hyperlink type this

<a href="mydown.php?download">Download</a>

I have tried it but blank page is displayed and its not downloading file at all please look into the matter

Hello

This will force a file to download cross browser, and will hide the original path of the file in PHP, do you can create counters of how many times this is downloaded or if someone has paid to get access to this file for example.
Set two variables filePath and fileName and that's is it!, also has special handle to for PDF files.




<?php


if(substr($filePath,-1)!="/") $filePath .= "/";

$pathOnHd = $filePath . $fileName;

if ($download = fopen ($pathOnHd, "r")) {
$size = filesize($pathOnHd);
$fileInfo = pathinfo($pathOnHd);
$ext = strtolower($fileInfo["extension"]);

switch ($ext) {
case "pdf":
header("Content-type: application/pdf");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"{$fileInfo["basename"]}\"");
break;
default;
header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: filename=\"{$fileInfo["basename"]}\"");
}

header("Content-length: $size");

while(!feof($download)) {
$buffer = fread($download, 2048);
echo $buffer;
}
fclose ($download);
}
exit;
?>



Example:
filePath = "/myprivatedirectory/www.zriel.com";
fileName = "Zriel.pdf";