PHP File Download code runs but outputs notthing on my local host - php

Question

foreach ($idsonly as $key=>$price) {
if($curencyarray[$key]=="Internet Download"){
$dfr = $productidarray[$key].'.'.$itemformatarray[$key];
$file = 'C:wamp/www/allcars/Dhotois/'.$bigidarray[$key].'/'.$dfr;
$fie = str_replace("; charset=binary","",$mimeformarray[$key]);
$filename = $dfr;
$filepath = "C:wamp/www/allcars/Dhotois/".$bigidarray[$key]."/" . $filename;
set_time_limit(0);
ignore_user_abort(false);
ini_set('output_buffering', 0);
ini_set('zlib.output_compression', 0);
header("Content-Description: File Transfer");
header("Pragma: public");
header("Expires: 0");
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
header("Cache-Control: private",false);
header("Content-Type: ".$fie."");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".basename($filepath)."");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
header("Content-Length: ".#filesize($filepath));
set_time_limit(0);
#readfile("$filepath") or die("File not found.");
ob_clean();
}
}
The above block of code runs but does not display the download box, the file i am trying to download is a jpeg file, i already set ob_start(); at the top of the page and if i remove the ob_clean(); from the code, it shows me this gibberish below
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please, what could possibly be wrong with my code?, any help and i will be so grateful.

Answer 1

The path C:wamp/www looks peculiar, should there not be a slash after the colon? Anyway, when sending files I have always used as below so perhaps it will be useful.
foreach ($idsonly as $key=>$price) {
if($curencyarray[$key]=="Internet Download"){
$dfr = $productidarray[$key].'.'.$itemformatarray[$key];
$file = 'C:/wamp/www/allcars/Dhotois/'.$bigidarray[$key].'/'.$dfr;
$fie = str_replace("; charset=binary","",$mimeformarray[$key]);
$filename = $dfr;
$filepath = "C:/wamp/www/allcars/Dhotois/".$bigidarray[$key]."/" . $filename;
if( realpath( $filepath ) ){
set_time_limit(0);
ignore_user_abort(false);
ini_set('output_buffering', 0);
ini_set('zlib.output_compression', 0);
header("Content-Description: File Transfer");
header("Pragma: public");
header("Expires: 0");
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
header("Cache-Control: private",false);
header("Content-Type: ".$fie."");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".basename($filepath));
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
header("Content-Length: ".#filesize($filepath));
set_time_limit(0);
/* send the file piece by piece */
if( $file = fopen( $filepath, 'rb' ) ) {
while( !feof( $file ) and ( connection_status()==0 ) ) {
print( fread( $file, 1024*8 ) );
flush();
}
fclose( $file );
}
ob_clean();
}
}
}
I have a function especially for sending files, it's basic but works and can be extended to include the other headers you set above.
function sendfile( $filename, $filepath ) {
if( file_exists( $filepath ) ) {
if( !is_file( $filepath ) or connection_status()!=0 ) { return FALSE; }
header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate");
header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0", false);
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: ".gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s", mktime(date("H")+2, date("i"), date("s"), date("m"), date("d"), date("Y")))." GMT");
header("Last-Modified: ".gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s")." GMT");
header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Length: ".(string)( filesize( $filepath ) ) );
header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename={$filename}");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary\n");
if( $file = fopen( $filepath, 'rb' ) ) {
while( !feof( $file ) and ( connection_status()==0 ) ) {
print( fread( $file, 1024*8 ) );
flush();
}
fclose( $file );
}
clearstatcache();
return( ( connection_status()==0 ) and !connection_aborted() );
}
}
$result=sendfile('mypicture.jpg','c:/wwwroot/images/banana.jpg');