How can you download?

[madmitch94]

I need a smart person,I need to know how you can allow people to download objects on your website?

[ray326]

<a href="somethingtodownlode.ext">Something to download</a>

[madmitch94]

oh my gosh! I didn't know it was that easy,thank-you!!

[madmitch94]

can you do it with out the .ext tag,if not can you tell me how to convert it?

[NogDog]

If you link to a file type that the browser doesn't "know" how to display, then it will prompt to download it. If you want to force a file to be downloaded even if it's a file that the browser knows how to display, then you need to do something on the server side to force it to be downloaded. The options depend on what type of web server is being used and what server-side technologies are available to you. If running under Apache web server, probably the easiest thing is to put any file that is to be downloaded into a specific directory which is only to contain downloadable files, and add a .htaccess file to that directory with the following line:

ForceType applicaton/octet-stream

[madmitch94]

wow..........