Is this possible?

[i-CONICA]

Hi, I have a downloads site, i have the home page, then each category then the actual information page for each software. Usually users click the download button on that page and the file downloads but now I'd like to take them to another page where the download will begin automatically.. I've figured out how to do that with a meta tag that loads the download when the download page for that software is loaded..

My problem is this means I need to copy the same page (changing to paths to each software) to every single directory on my site. one for each download.

I'm wondering if there's a way I can achieve this with just one page. have all the download buttons link to this one page and somehow (this is the part I don't understand) have the software download page pass on the file path to the actual software to the download page, so when the generic download page loads it has been given the path to the file and starts the download...

I'm thinking JavaScript or php with variables but i have no idea how this would work..

Thanks for any ideas! :D

[RysChwith]

You'd want PHP, and probably a database. The link passes a program ID, which correlates to a URL in the database. PHP gets the URL and writes it into the appropriate place in the document.

Rys