Question

When a user clicks a “Download PDF” link, I would like for the download prompt to appear and for the user to be able to download the file.

Currently, the user is just transferred to the address of the PDF file.

For example:

<a..[what goes here??]..>Download PDF</a>

It seems that there’s a combination of JavaScript & PHP needed to do this.

Can anyone give an example?

Answer 1

If you’re on Apache, you can drop this into your .htaccess:

<Files *.pdf>
  Header set Content-Disposition attachment
</Files>

This will send all PDF documents as downloads. mod_headers has to be enabled though.