Force-Download with php on Amazon S3

Question

I am trying to use http://code.google.com/p/amazon-s3-php-class/ to force-dowload files from AWS S3. I have an mp3 that I want people to \"play\" or \"download.\" By default

Answer 1

Just wanting to post a contribution to this, Alex Neth is correct on this reference, but i do not feel a link is sufficient information, using amazon's own AWS PHP SDK2. Below I've outlined a basic (untested) method for calling data this way, you can use either S3 Factory Method or AWS Service Builder to make the S3 Client.

 '',
    'secret' => ''
));*/

// OR AWS Service Builder
use Aws\Common\Aws;

// Create a service builder using a configuration file
$aws = Aws::factory('/path/to/my_config.json');

// Get the client from the builder by namespace
$s3 = $aws->get('S3');

// Now lets create our request object.
$command = $s3->getCommand('GetObject',array(
    'Bucket'                        => 'your-bucket-name',
    'Key'                           => 'keyname',
    'ResponseContentType'           => 'application/octet-stream',
    'ResponseContentDisposition'    => 'attachment; filename="filename.mp3',
));
$url = $command->createPresignedUrl('+1 days');
?>

You can then use PHP's header("Location: $url"); in order to redirect the visitor to the MP3 file with a force download, this should prevent it from playing in the browser, Please note, i use ResponseContentType quite frequently but I've never used ResponseContentDisposition with AWS (it should work according to the docs).

Converting this sample into a function should be easy, you could even pass in $bucket, $key, $force_download as such

get('S3');
    $params = array(
        'Bucket'                        => $bucket,
        'Key'                           => 'keyname',
        'ResponseContentType'           => 'application/octet-stream',
        'ResponseContentDisposition'    => 'attachment; filename="filename.mp3',
    );

    if($force_download){
        $params['ResponseContentType'] = 'application/octet-stream';
        $params['ResponseContentDisposition'] = 'attachment; filename="'.basename($key).'"';
    }

    $command = $s3->getCommand('GetObject',$params);
    return $command->createPresignedUrl('+1 days');
}

// Location redirection to an MP3 force downlaod
header("Location: ".gen_url("recordings","my-file.mp3",true));
// Location redirection to a MP3 that lets the browser decide what to do.
header("Location: ".gen_url("recordings","my-file.mp3"));

?>

WARNING, if you haven't figured it out, this requires the AWS PHP SDK 2 currently (April 7th 2014) found here http://aws.amazon.com/sdkforphp/ This code is mostly pseudo code and may require some additional tweaking to actually make work as i'm referencing this from memory.