a download link

Hi all
Just a quick question. I managed to do a login page in my site. I have a free download section in my site and what i am planning to is to make download sections for the registered members only.  

Now i am stuck up while making a download link for the .zip file. I want to hide the actual location of my .zip file so ppl can't access it from out the restricted area. Like typing that address in browsers and getting my .zip files.  

I have seen in some websites like they have *.php?nrtlayout=13 something like that so the actual link is masked. How do i do that?

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a suggestion and resource

Store the information of the downloadable files into a (SQL or text file) database or even in array variable in the code if your list of files is very static. You should store at least the path & filename and unique id-number. You can be creative when thinking what info to store... 

Build a download script that GETs an id number and checks the database for the file with the given id. Then force download for that file, if it's found, otherwise print an error message. 

More details can be found here: 

http://us2.php.net/header 

I hope this helps.

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