I see this tutorial to make download file but I have a problem
Here is my example
$file_url = "D:/my file name.doc"
header('Content-Type: text/json; charset=UTF-8;');
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=' . basename($file_url)."");
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($file_url));
ob_clean();
flush();
readfile($file_url);
Everything's well in ie or chrome. But when I using firefox to download file. The file download has my is the file name? How to fix that thanks
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' .basename($file_url).'"');
First of all you are missing ; on the end of the first line.
I think the problem is in filename with spaces.
Try to use readfile(urlencode($file_url)); instead of readfile($file_url);
You should quote filename.
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . basename($file_url) . '"');
EDIT: It was as selected answer just with typo in it. Now I fixed it.
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I'm using this code to force a download using headers, the file name is renamed correctly but the file is empty, the actual file isn't being downloaded.
$file = url . '/uploads/audio/' . $trackFile;
$tmp = explode(".", $file);
$newTrackName = $trackTitle . '.' . end($tmp);
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=' . $newTrackName);
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Connection: Keep-Alive');
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
header('Pragma: public');
You are missing the actual sending of the file e.g.
echo readfile($file);
exit;
or
header("Location: $file");
You need to add..
readfile($file);
exit;
You are correct and I upvoted both answers but I also found that the new version of cpanel turned of fopen by default, I had to enable fopen.
I have files of different extensions, So how can I define multiple extensions in one header. for example
header("Content-type: application/xml");
header("Content-type: application/txt");
Is there any possibilities are there, to define in a single header something like this
header("Content-type: application/xml txt");
Thanks in advance for your suggestions
If you want in downloading any type of file you can just use application/octet-stream.
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
// for example this will download any type of 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);
I'm trying to download an .msi file which it's actual size is 5.77 MB. When I execute the script the downloaded file will lose some bytes and will become 4.88 MB.
Code:
$file = 'apps/file.msi';
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.basename($file));
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Expires: 5');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
header('Pragma: public');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
ob_clean();
flush();
readfile($file);
I tried even with the anchor tag and the same happend. I also changed the extension from .msi to .txt and the bytes were also removed from the downloaded file.
I just can't figure it out
try this
$file = 'apps/file.msi';
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: Binary");
header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\"" . basename($file) . "\"");
readfile($file);
maybe your server is configured to gzip the content transferred
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_compression
I need make xlsx file download from my site (but not from directly open file url like this: http://site.com/file.xlsx )
So, this is php code
$file = "somefile.xlsx";
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.basename($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);
file is downloaded, his extension is .xlsx, but when trying open this file in ms excel, file not opened and I got error : excel cannot open the file.xlsx because the file format or file extension is not valid
Tell please, why this happened? where I am wrong?
After many years, I got same problem, and after searching, I got here again ))
This is solution, that worked for me:
$file = "somefile.xlsx";
// define file $mime type here
ob_end_clean(); // this is solution
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: ' . $mime);
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: Binary");
header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\"" . basename($file) . "\"");
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate');
header('Pragma: public');
readfile($file);
You must be using this code in middle of some other file.
The problem with headers is they need to be set first on a page. They will not work if you have even 1 single space echoing before them. So you need to ob_clean() [clean the buffer] before you are setting headers
Try
ob_clean();
flush();
$file = "somefile.xlsx";
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.basename($file));
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate');
header('Pragma: public');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
readfile($file);
Remove:
ob_clean();
flush();
Add at the end of code:
exit();
The issue is that flush() will also throw in your *.xlsx file content some garbage it has in it and that will corupt your file, even if you use ob_clean();
For a better understanding go to php.net and read the difference between flush(), ob_flush() and find that you didn't even need them in the first case. Therefore you won't need the ob_clean() too.
This works for me:
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header("Content-Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".basename($fileLocation)."\"");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
header("Expires: 0");
header("Pragma: public");
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($fileLocation)); //Remove
ob_clean();
flush();
readfile($fileLocation);
what could be a problem of that, file int the server is good, but after I press download it get corrupted...
<?php
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
header('Content-type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="ataskaita.docx"');
readfile('../generavimui/ataskaita.docx');
}
?>
Look into the file using notepad or a hex editor. There probably is a PHP error message in there.
Possible reasons include
The file you are looking for doesn't exist
$_POST['submit'] is not set
try ereasing the output buffer before reading the file
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
header('Content-type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="ataskaita.docx"');
ob_clean();
flush();
readfile('../generavimui/ataskaita.docx');
}
I had the same problem that you are having, except I had some additional problems, such as trailing source code being included in the downloaded file.
To fix it, replace your code with this:
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="ataskaita.docx"');
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));
Source Site
Hope this helps