Help!!

I am trying to add a link on my website so that if someone clicks it, it will automatically start downloading. Can you please give me an example of what I would have to type?
Thank you

 

Well you either link directly to the file like so:

http://www.mysite.com/downloads/file.zip

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Or you can use a PHP script to return the contents of a file and then force the browser to download it. If you want the PHP way just ask and I'll give you sample source.

 

Im sure with all the security concerns these days you cannot start a download going automatically. You could link it to a file to prompt a user to click save or open but not sure about the automatic download

 

The same idea as HTML <h ref> in my website.

 

Sorry I didn't mean what I said, I meant for it to come up and prompt a user to click save or open

 

Just do what I said then:

<a href="www.mysite.com/path/to/file.zip">Click to download</a>

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Thank you very much I will let you know if it works out for me