[tonyAtLance]

I've been through this loop recently with support. I wanted to upload wmv files of up to 85MB as attachments. Support assured me that this was not a practical proposition, PHP being the limiting factor.

So I'm searching for a solution to a similar problem. I want to protect files from direct download, so they are only available through the forums, in a series of thread starter messages. The files will need to be out of the webroot directory or in a directory with a .htaccess file, though I'm not quite sure this is the route to go.

So I'm looking for a mechanism for me only to be able to link to secured files from within the body of a message.

I'm a learner with PHP, but I wrote a small script that can call files from outside the webroot, but I wouldn't want to risk putting this into the body, and I'm not sure that's possible anyway.

tia