[PHP] Auto Link Maker (For Right Click > Save As)

[TopCat]

Have you ever used mozilla and been to a page where they're showing 'funny videos' 'funny ads' or whatever, and its wmv? I'm able to right click and get the url, but i cant just place that in and get it to dl, it shows text. So theres no way to install the plugin (if someone knows a way tell me) and I can't view WMV.

So here comes my thoughts. I'd have a PHP that I'd go to, paste a link, and it'd give back the same page, but with the link so i could right click and save as. This way I'd be able to view the wmv, without having to edit a freaking html file each time, saving, and opening.

Since this is (at least seemingly) a simple project, and yet I lack the knowledge to do it, I thought someone here could whip some magic php miracles in mere seconds, and post the code.

[Ryom]

That was a problem in the older versions of firebird and mozilla, when improper mime encoding was sent by the server it would show ascii charaters in the browser instead of downloading the binary info. The latest version, FireFox, doesn't have this problem.

You could also use a download manager such as leechget to capture the link and download it when you click in the browser.

If I interpreted what you are asking wrong I'm sorry. I'm in a rush

[Vektor T. Gecko]

That's not a problem with the browser, that's the browser doing exactly what it's supposed to. The server is saying it's text/plain, then the browser most certainly SHOULD be displaying the file as plain text, and it's something that needs to be fixed on the server, not the browser.

Why not just code the script yourself? All the documentation (and it's quite thorough documentation) for PHP functions is available on php.net

[MasteR]

hold shift and click the link.

or

put the link in the bar, hold shift, and hit enter


i think its shift anyway

[EvilPanda]

Open windows media player or whatever and click "open url" if its a direct link to a .wmv file.

[dmpotter]

[quote="Vektor T. Gecko";p="294355"]That's not a problem with the browser, that's the browser doing exactly what it's supposed to. The server is saying it's text/plain, then the browser most certainly SHOULD be displaying the file as plain text, and it's something that needs to be fixed on the server, not the browser.[/quote]
I half-agree, but then again... It's such a common problem that I fully support the people that want Mozilla to auto-detect MIME types when it receives "text/plain" as the MIME type.

Yeah, the server is mis-configured, but... (This is really IE's fault for always going by the file extension for MIME types. I've forgotten how many times I've had to end URLs to scripts end with ?ie=/a.jpg to make IE accept that the the URL it's accessing really is a JPG.)

BTW, try the View Info dialog. Right click on the page, choose "View Info" and go to the Media tab and find the video in the list of links. There's a "Save As..." button there that saves the image.

Or at least there is in Firefox, I haven't been using Mozilla since 1.5.

[TopCat]

I know about that save as thing, but it doesn't seem to work with embeded wmv's, at least in my history.

However, I've found something 'slightly' related to this.

http://javascript.internet.com/forms/html-preview.html

I just have to figure out how to merge

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<a href="

with
[/code]">Right Click Here</a>[/code]

and let that form submit, return a page, and there we go. Again, I've read through the stuff on php.net, and it's a LOT of stuff, and it's really good, but forms and POST are really difficult to understand, especially the part about returning what was POSTed.

[Vektor T. Gecko]

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$_POST['name']

where 'name' is the name of the form element you want to retrieve.

for something like:

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<FORM ACTION="myscript.php" METHOD="POST">
  <INPUT TYPE=whatever NAME="pants">
  .
  .
  .
</FORM>

you would use the variable:

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$_POST['pants']

to retrieve the value of that element.

[TopCat]

So something like

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<Form ACTION="linker.php" METHOD="POST">
   <INPUT TYPE=text NAME="filename">
</Form>

then

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<a href="$_POST['filename']">Rightclickme</a>

I don't know how to $+ $+ in php, and I've not found the way. Actually I think it is $+!

:-/

[Stapr]

In order to output variables, you have two choices. Both are okay, but for more advanced outputs, the second one will have less conflicts.

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echo "some plain text, $varname, some more plain text"; // 1st option
echo "some plain text, ".$varname.", some more plain text"; // 2nd option

So, for what you want, you can use the following code.

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<?php
// linker.php
if ($newpage) {
  echo "<a href='".$newpage."'>Generated link is here.</a>";
} else {
  echo "<form action='linker.php' method='post'>URL: <input type='text' name='newpage'>";
  echo "<p><input type='submit' value='Submit'></form>";
}
?>

[TopCat]

/me transfers $5 to Stapr's Swiss bank account.

/me works on making it display the submit bit again after giving the link, or something, so that I may do it on another url.

viewing videos will forever not suck now thanks to Stapr.

[Stapr]

To make it display the submit button again, just remove the else part of the if...then...else statment, like so.

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<?php 
// linker.php 
if ($newpage) { 
  echo "<a href='".$newpage."'>Generated link is here.</a>"; 
}
echo "<p><form action='linker.php' method='post'>URL: <input type='text' name='newpage'>"; 
echo "<p><input type='submit' value='Submit'></form>"; 
?>

[Deacon]

[quote="DJ TopCat";p="294483"]I know about that save as thing, but it doesn't seem to work with embeded wmv's, at least in my history.[/quote]
Install and use Firefox.

Visit page with embedded media.

Select "Tools" -> "Page Info" (CTRL+J)

Click on "Media" tab.

Click on the embedded media from the list.

Click "Save As..." button.

Figure the rest out yourself

[TopCat]

Shut the fuck up, fanboy.

Visit page with embedded media.

Realize it hasn't even been downloaded, as you don't have the plugin to download it.

Try to save as anyway.

Get an error viewing the file.

Shoot deacon in head, laugh, use linker.php, smile.

[Deacon]