I have tried to download file from server using below code but it not downloaded. It shows only content in browser
<?php
if(file_exists($zipName))
{
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\'Uttam_Solanki.zip\'');
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate');
header('Pragma: public');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($zipName));
readfile($zipName);
exit;
}
?>
you need to change role in .htaccess
add application/octet-stream zip
your content-type must be `application/zip
here is a similar approach:
send zip file to browser / force direct download
How are you triggering this script?
If by link, maybe using download attribute would help?
Related
I am trying to get a text file to download using a PHP script but when my script runs the file contents are displayed in the browser window. I tried this solution: Why downloaded file is not downloaded instead it is shown in browser?
However the code I have already has a content length header. This is my PHP code (which I obtained from another post 1 and modified for a text file)
$file = 'file.txt';
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: text/plain');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.basename($file));
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate');
header('Pragma: public');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
ob_clean();
flush();
readfile($file);
exit;
Browser output of text file contents
I tried to copy an example from php.com for a pdf file and I get the same symbols as in the post I linked.
I am not sure why this is happening. I am running MAMP 3.5 with PHP version 5.6.10 on Chrome.
This has really baffled me since so far I have been able to find solutions online for everything I have done. As far as I can tell, what I am doing is correct so any advice would be much appreciated.
Many thanks,
Nehal Patel
RESOLVED (9/4/15) with guidance from Marcus:
removed flush() an ob_clean().
$file = 'file.txt';
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: text/plain');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.basename($file));
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate');
header('Pragma: public');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
readfile($file);
exit;
Try changing your content-type to octet/stream
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
I have a download link on my website from where we can download attachments. The pdf file is downloading perfectly but the images, docs and zip file are downloading as corrupt.
Below is the code which I am using for download. The code is working fine in my local pc but not on the server.
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.basename($FilePath));
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate');
header('Pragma: public');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($FilePath));
readfile($FilePath);
exit;
The corruption occurs if your php script echoes anything before your headers.
Try using the same code, but in a separate php script.
Try adding
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
I'm trying to make php download a .zip file using this code:
header('Content-Type: application/zip');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.basename($file).'"');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
readfile($file);
$file is right.
I have two problem with this script:
If I use header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file)); the download is corrupt with 0 bytes file.
If I comment this line, the download looks good on ubuntu.
If I use mac OS to download this file, after opening the .zip it extracts .cpgz file (for what I read is when the zip is corrupt)
I've tried all kind of headers to make this work, but the problem is always on that header.
My question is: how can I make this work on all OS?
I use this for the purpose of downloading any kind of file using one generic PHP-script:
$base = "/path/to/downloadable/files";
$file = "myArchive.zip"; // or anything else
if(file_exists($base.$file)){
header('Content-Description: Download');
header('Content-Type: '.mime_content_type($base.$file));
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.basename($file).'"');
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Connection: Keep-Alive');
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($base.$file));
echo file_get_contents($base.$file);
}
This works fine for me with almost every kind of file (including .zip).
Is there any way to provide a direct link to a file and force the browser to download it using PHP?
E.g http://www.website.com/directory/file.jpg
We're dealing with huge files here and Chrome in particular seems to have a problem rendering the image, so all the user sees is a blank screen when visiting the file directly. Even though they can still right-click in the blank screen and download the file it's confusing.
We used to output the files from PHP but we ran into memory problems so switched to providing a direct link instead. The files go up to about 5GB, they aren't all images. We have zips, PDFs, PSDs etc.
Currently, the file is requested through a PHP script which accepts the ID of the file and get its URL. The PHP script then redirects to the user to full URL of the file.
How can we ensure that downloads are forced and we don't run into memory issues with the larger files?
Thank you
Just use X-Sendfile but you need to configure it first ... using XSendFilePath
if (file_exists($file)) {
header("X-Sendfile: $file");
header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header(sprintf("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"%s\"", basename($file)));
exit();
}
Note* Please ensure $file is properly escaped before you verify and serve the file
XSendFilePath only works on Apache for other servers please see : Caching HTTP responses when they are dynamically created by PHP
You need to set the headers for force download
$file = 'upload_directory_path/'.$image_name;
if (file_exists($file)) {
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.basename($file));
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
header('Pragma: public');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
ob_clean();
flush();
readfile($file);
exit;
}
<?php
//file path
$file = 'monkey.gif';
if (file_exists($file)) {
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.basename($file));
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate');
header('Pragma: public');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
ob_clean();
flush();
readfile($file);
exit;
}
I'm trying to write a php script that will check parameters passed in before it initiates a download to the client. I've started by attempting to just initiate a download:
<?php
$file = '/tticon.jpg';
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".basename($file)."\"");
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
header('Pragma: public');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
ob_clean();
flush();
readfile($file);
exit;
?>
When I navigate to this script it shows a blank page and nothing happens. How do I initiate a download?
Try using application/force-download as Content-Type. If you want to show the image in the brwoser you can use image/jpg.
header("Content-type: application/force-download");
Since the file's extension is ".jpg" I assume it's mime is image/jpeg.
Replace this line:
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
with this:
header('Content-Type: image/jpeg');
If you really want to force the browser to download the file (which I find very unlikely, anyway):
Replace the line with this:
header("Content-Type: application/force-download");
Your $file looks suspect. Do you really have a tticon.jpg in the root directory of your server? Remember that PHP's file-functions operate on the FILESYSTEM of the server, not the WEB directories that Apache presents. PHP will not magically pre-pend your site's document root to that path. It's literally going to be looking in the root directory of the server's file system, NOT in the document root of your site.