Forums: How to add link to download original

  1. niceoutfit : Member | 2 years ago

    I would like to provide a download link the original source file that was uploaded. Could you provide the code needed to do so.

  2. DaveLester : Member | 2 years ago

    You've probably seen this called on the admin side on the items show page:

    <?php echo display_files($item->Files); ?>

    That displays the file and the download link. It looks like this is what you want. Take a look at display_files() in the application/helpers/Functions.php file to see how it works if you are looking to build something of your own. $files can be an array, so you just have to handle that properly, and you could echo something as follows:

    echo '<a href="'. file_download_uri($file). '" class="download-file">'. $file->original_filename. '</a>'

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