I am using the following code, to access a file which exists
$file = 'monkey.gif';
if (file_exists($file)) {
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.basename($file));
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate');
header('Pragma: public');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
readfile($file);
exit;
}
It downloads fine, but when opening the image viewer is refusing to open stating its not a gif file. Is
I think you should change the Content-Type to 'image/gif'
I found that there was a print elsewhere in the code so when it was forcing the download it was corrupted. Removing the print worked.
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I already asked this question, but not correctly, and I didn't know, that I can't execute a html page and start a download on the same page, but now I know. The main problem actually still remains, I can't get the CSV file to download, it always get the PHP self. The code is executed. I didn't find any information about CSV in the php.ini. I created the file directly before the download (in another page), so it's impossible, that the it doesn't exist.
<?php
if(empty($_POST['checkbox_put_it_in_CSV_too'])!=1){
$file=fopen('created_files/Rankrohad_P_2021-04-01.csv','w');
$filename='created_files/Rankrohad_P_2021-04-01.csv';
foreach($rankrohad as $line){
fputcsv($file,$line,"|","'");
}
fclose($file);
$fsize=filesize($filename);
if(file_exists($filename)){
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/csv');
header('Content_Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$filename.'"');
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate');
header('Pragma: no-cache');
header('Content-Length: '.$fsize);
readfile($filename);
exit;
}
}
?>
The problem is with your headers. Try this:
if(file_exists($filename)){
$fsize=filesize($filename);
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/csv');
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$filename\"");
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate');
header('Pragma: no-cache');
header('Content-Length: '.$fsize);
readfile($filename);
exit;
}
At Content-Disposition header I escaped the filename and I placed filesize function in IF.
I can't download files that already uploaded in my website, for example :
I already uploaded a video file with 800mb file size and it is okay, the file is save to my directory in the File folder, then I want to download that file again, but as soon as I download the file, I will always got 1kb file not the exact size of the file, and when I play it, nothing happen
this is my code:
<?php
include 'db.php';
if(isset($_REQUEST['name']))
{
$var =$_REQUEST['name'];
$dir = "../files/";
$file = $dir . $var;
if(file_exists($file))
{
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: video');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename='.basename($file));
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate');
header('Pragma: public');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
ob_clean();
flush();
readfile($file);
mysqli_close($conn);
exit();
}
else{
echo "File not found";
}
}
?>
Yeah, I had the same problem too. After searching alot on the internet, I found out that the problem is related to output buffering. The following code solved my problem.
<?php
$file = $_GET['file'];
if (file_exists($file)) {
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.basename($file).'"');
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate');
header('Pragma: public');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
ob_end_clean(); //adding this line solves my problem
readfile($file);
exit;
?>
The code ob_end_clean() basically runs grabs everything in the buffer, then erases the buffer, and turns off output buffering.
Pdf files are OK but files images, docx cant open/corrupted when I download from server
$file = APPPATH . '/upload/filename.jpg';
if (file_exists($file)) {
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.basename($file).'"');
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate');
header('Pragma: public');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
readfile($file);
exit;
}
The official way with Codeigniter is to use the Download helper: https://www.codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/download_helper.html. In your instance you may be better off trying http://php.net/manual/en/function.is-readable.php is_readable() as this checks for existance as well as if PHP can read (to then use) it.
I have a code:
$name = "jeffrey.epub"; //for naming only
$file = "test/cover/cabang.epub"; //the real file to be downloaded
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.basename($name).'"');
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate');
header('Pragma: public');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
readfile($file);
but upon having the download file, it came out corrupted.i also change the header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream'); to header('Content-Type: application/epub+zip'); but still it was corrupted, i was wondering what is the problem that the file is being corrupted
I have created a beginner program to forcefully download file from unix box to windows through browser, it is not throwing any error but shows nothing on browser just a blank page.
PHP version- 5.2.13
Apache-2.0
Unix Box- HP-UX 11.11 (old version latest is 11.31)
local PC- windows XP Prof.
Browser- IE 7, Mozilla.
Below is my code (this code resides on unix box):
<?php
ob_start();
$file = '/opt/hpws/apache/htdocs/barn/file2';
if (file_exists($file)) {
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream;charset=utf-8');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$file');
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate');
header('Pragma: public');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
readfile($file);
exit;
}
?>
This line had quotation marks missing:
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$file');
and in trying to use that line of code, the browser would prompt to save the file as $file.
The line of code should read as:
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.basename($file).'"');
The following (tested with a binary file) with file inside the same folder as executed code.
NOTE: You could use header("Content-Type: application/text"); if it's an ASCII file.
<?php
ob_start();
$file = 'file.zip';
if (file_exists($file)) {
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream;charset=utf-8');
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;
}
?>
Okay, let's add some checks and debugging.
<?php
$file = '/opt/hpws/apache/htdocs/barn/file2';
if (!file_exists($file)) {
die("The file does not exist");
}
if (!is_file($file)) {
die("Not a file"); // Worry about symlinks later
}
if (!is_readable($file)) {
die("The file is not readable");
}
die("DEBUG: Okay, will send the file -- remove this line and retry");
$name = basename($file); // Or anything else
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"{$name}\"");
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate');
header('Pragma: public');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
readfile($file);
exit();
?>
If this does not work, it should at least tell you why. Also, on the first run, the one when it will still not download the file but only tell you that it will, check that the page does not contain anything else except that one line. Otherwise, you're setting yourself up for a fall; if not this once, as soon as you have to send a file larger than your output buffers, or too many files for your system memory.