On 4/23/07, Ashraf Amayreh <mistknight@gmail.com> wrote:

What about referencing files in the files directory?

Sorry I forgot to answer this part.. base_path() would solve it in your example <?php print base_path(). file_directory_path() .'/whatever.zip'; ?> but it's a wrong approach, file_create_url() is the correct function to use here as it will honor the private/public download option in the site configuration.

So a typical way to generate a download link to a file is: l(t('Download'), file_create_url($filepath)); where $filepath is the path to the file relative to the files directory.