Re: Media View related Query

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 2:50 AM, newguy <aimanparvaiz@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi I did what was suggested in the above post and now this is my
> download function:
>
> function download ($slug = null)
>         {
>        $this->view = 'Media';
>        $params = array(
>              'id' => 'example.zip,
>              'name' => 'example',
>              'download' => true,
>              'extension' => 'zip',
>              'path' => APP . 'gamefiles' . DS);
>
>       $this->set($params);
>    }
> I have three more links on whose click 3 different files should be
> downloded using this very download function, how should I make use of
> this slug to download different files. Should it be this: ???
>
> function download ($slug = null)
>         {
>        $this->view = 'Media';
>        $params = array(
>              'id' => $slug,
>              'name' => 'example',
>              'download' => true,
>              'extension' => 'zip',
>              'path' => APP . 'gamefiles' . DS);
>
>       $this->set($params);
>    }

Are all of the files going to be zips? Because you've hard-coded the
extension here. Are your downloadable files recorded in the DB? If so,
save the extension for each record. Use the $slug to fetch the desired
file's data.

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