I'd like users to be able to view files (I need to research this further, PDF/doc viewer, vid player etc) on the site before choosing to download them. Any suggestions on suitable methods?
The main question though is allowing them to download files.
I read on another SO post that this:
<?php
$file = 'monkey.gif';
if (file_exists($file)) {
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.basename($file));
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
header('Pragma: public');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
ob_clean();
flush();
readfile($file);
exit;
}
?>
is suitable however I'll be pulling the file name from the database. I'm thinking of using a standard download page so that download.php?filename=thisFileToDownload can pass the filename along.
The other issue is that there are different file types such as images, videos, excel, docs and pdfs etc etc. Are there any problems that I might run into with this?
Thanks for any help
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I have a piece of code to let the user save a html file (the 'history' list of his actions in the site) to the folder or location he wants on his/her computer. It's a start but it just saves the file on the Download folder of the browser used.
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment;filename="'.basename($hFile).'"');
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($hFile));
ob_clean();
flush();
readfile($hFile);
Do you know what is missing in order to let the user choose where to save this file?
This sort of behavior is browser-dependent and you have no control over it.
You've done what you can do to force a download. Now, it's up to the user, their browser, and configuration.
First of all I ask for an apologize, I know this question had been asked and already been answered but I still can not figure out what to do.
I put my files outside and before of root directory and want to access it when a customer purchases a file. I know I can use this method for downloading but I want this to get the file and let me to send it into other page and there customer click on the link to download it and also mention that a customer may have purchased many files.
How can do the same for all files? Should I put them in a loop?
Here is my code:
<?php
$file = 'monkey.gif';
if (file_exists($file))
{
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename='.basename($file));
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre- check=0');
header('Pragma: public');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
ob_clean();
flush();
readfile($file);
exit;
}
?>
Thanks in advance.
I've searched alot for that and nothing works for me. The Problem is that the file got displayed in the Browser. It includes JSON, but is an .locx file (needed for an APP). No not my APP so i cant change that. I've tested so much variations of Content Types and Encodings, but nothing helped me out. That is my Code.
<?php
function DownloadFile($file) {
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;
}
}
DownloadFile('storage/3-3-2.locx');
?>
Thanks for reading!
// UPDATE
It works on another Server, and as written in the comments the Script works very well, but what i have to change in the server configuration that it works for me too?
It happens , while uploading the file.
While uploading the file encoding changed from utf8 to iso.
Im trying to workout if i can stream PDF files from behind the web root via an image/pdf viewer. Google's documentation says to embed a PDF in an HTML page you just use html and include an embed and point to the file.
http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=YourDocumentUrlHere
However for the purposes of security I am using a document/image script that streams the file to the browser and therefore the filepath remains hidden from the view of the user and unable to be accessed by google documents.
The output sent by the document image script is in the form
header('Content-type: application/pdf');
readfile("/home/******/*****/images/enquiries/23251/23251-1.pdf");
can anyone help me with this?
JUST IN CASE ANYONE WAS WONDERING... i added this to the image server script (imageserve.php)
if ($type = "application/pdf") {
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/pdf');
header('Content-Disposition: inline; filename='.basename($file));
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Accept-Ranges: bytes');
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;
} else
and then on the page where i wanted to display the pdf i added
$temp = "home/..../..../development/imageserve.php?filename=xxxxxx";
<embed style="width:1200px; height:730px;" name="plugin" src="$temp" type="application/pdf">
I have a piece of code that allow users download file from server (document such as docs,docx,pdf etc).
Users can download files but it has some errors like the files were broken. For example, a MS Word file after download need to recovery to read content.
I wonder that if there is any mistake in this code (or problem when uploading?).
$size_of_file = filesize($download_path);
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=' . $file_name);
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: ' . $size_of_file);
//read file from physical path
readfile($download_path);
Did you try like this ?
<?php
header("Content-type: application/vnd.ms-word");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; Filename=SaveAsWordDoc.doc");
?>
I found the root of the problem, I hav some extra spaces after php close tag. Thank you guys.