Need Help With CSS

mantasx · Last edited by mantasx on Tue Aug 29, 2006 4:52 pm; edited 1 time in total

Thanks to SlowWalkere, My CSS problem was solved! Very Happy

But there is another little one :

Another tiny problem. I think this one is much easier. How to make a button that would allow users, to download videos? For example : http://www.thatvideosite.com/view/3169.html Scrool down and you'll see a button saying "Downlad This Video". If you simply make a button with a link, when you click on it, it opens up in a Video Player(Windows Media Player). You could tell your users to right click on the link of the video, and press save as target, but that doesn't feel so profesional. Thank you for your time. Please help.

SlowWalkere

I think the problem might be that you have <style> tags in the style sheet. You only include those when the styles are included in your <head> tag. With an external style sheet, you don't need any style tags.

I took the sheet, exactly as you had it, commented out the style tags, and it worked fine when viewed in Netscape. The links changed colors and style, and the font was the right font.

So give that a try. Good luck,
- Walkere

mantasx

SlowWalkere, thank you soo much! I've spent about 5 hours trying to figure it out! Thank you, it really did work! Your the best!!! Cool

But I still need help with downloading video part.

eruct

Pretty simple solution to your downloading problem. Two steps.
1. Put a link on your page to the file that you want to allow to be downloaded. for example:

mantasx

Well, I knew how to do that eruct. If you go on Explorer, when you press on the link going to a video, it automaticly opens up in Windows Media Player. On firefox, however, you have a choise: either to download it as a file, or play it with Windows Media Player. I want that button to automaticly download on Explorer and Firefox. Just like on this site http://www.thatvideosite.com/view/3169.html

eruct

No. You misunderstood....

You have a link going to the video. Fine.

Then do what I said. On the link with the streaming video (or whatever you have) simply add another button that goes straight to the file.

Here is a test page that I setup. It allows you to download a .pdf file.
Here is the code for that page...

htmlrules

you could always put the movie in a compressed folder so it will automatically be downloaded and not played

mantasx

I get it eruct, with a .zip, .rar, .exe. I know what your saying, but if you put a video file, it opens up in windows media player. A photo too, if dont right click and press "Save As Picture", and have a link of it, it wouldnt download, it would just show up in In Interent Explorer (of firefox). Try it with a video file, it wont work.

silentpark

the problem is that there is a pool of predefined file-types which were opened with a compatible program (so basic configurations says: open videos with a video player!)

to avoid this or giving users the opportunity to save a video you could place a note like "To save video, click right mouse button -> Save As..."

SlowWalkere

I think I've found a way to force the download when the user clicks on the link. But, it'll take a very little bit of php to do it.

I found this tutorial, which gave me the idea.

Basically, php has a function header() which will send http headers to the user's browser. If you use a Content-Disposition header, you can set the file as an attachment and the browser will try to download it. To make sure that the browser doesn't just open it anyway, you can also change the application type by using a Content-Type header (normally, the type comes up as something the browser recognizes, which tells the browser to display it instead of download it).

Anyhow, with this knowledge in hand we can do what you want to do with a short script. This script will take input in the form of a $_GET variable, filename, which will be the filename passed through the link in the original site.

For now, I'll call the script download.php. It will contain a few lines, as follows...

mantasx

Thanks a lot SlowWalkere! It worked. Thanks a lot!! Smile

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