Downloading Files using PHP
Posted on April 18, 2020 at 10:28 PHP
Last week I revamped my anime collective and among the changes was the removal of the lightbox when downloading an avatar. Naturally came across countless solutions on the Innernet but nothing compared to how PHP Tutorial Point handled it. The fewest lines but the most readable!
$file = "vaccines/covid19.pdf";
header("Content-Type: " . filetype($file));
header("Content-Length: " . filesize($file));
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=" . basename($file));
readfile($file);
Make sure that the path to the file is relative to the file where the code is.
Renaming Photos by Timestamp
Posted on October 18, 2016 at 16:15 Java
Including my cellphone, I used to have three cameras (used because my waterproof one died on me right after my recent trip to Palawan). Most smartphones already save photos with timestamps as the filenames but as for digital cameras, as far as I know, it’s not really the case. In general, the file naming convention varies from one device to another. The lines in Java that follow are not really anything special; it just reads the Last Modified metadata and uses it as the filename. I’ve been using this for quite some time now just because I want to be able to view photos chronologically once I consolidate them from multiple devices. That simple. Okay, and a bit of an OCD, too.
String dirName = "C:/Photos/Maldives"; //in my dreams
String fileNameExt = ".jpg"; //JPEG format
String fileNamePref = "RIMG"; //just blank to rename all photos
String fileNameFmt = "yyyyMMdd_HHmmss"; //e.g. 20161018_161534 for October 18, 2016 4:15:34 PM (should be unique enough!)
File directory = new File(dirName);
File[] photos = directory.listFiles();
for(File photo : photos) {
String filename = photo.getName();
if(filename.toLowerCase().endsWith(fileNameExt) && filename.startsWith(fileNamePref)) {
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(fileNameFmt);
String newFilename = sdf.format(photo.lastModified()) + fileNameExt;
File renamedPhoto = new File(photo.getParent() + "/" + newFilename);
if(!photo.renameTo(renamedPhoto)) {
System.out.println("Failed to rename: " + photo.getAbsolutePath());
}
} else {
System.out.println("Not a " + fileNamePref + "*" + fileNameExt + ": " + photo.getAbsolutePath());
}
}
This is under the assumption that the date and time in your devices have been set correctly. Different time zones are no longer within the scope of this post but is accommodated in—apparently someone already thought of the same—Renaming jpeg files with date+time stamp. Ideally, all photos should be renamed successfully since no two photos can be taken at exactly the same time (burst shots are another story). But with multiple cameras, there can simply be conflict sometimes. Lastly, you should be careful when copying or moving photos because sometimes the Last Modified data are changed to the date you copied or moved them. Should that be the case, the given source code no longer holds any value.
