Force Downloading file through php not working - php

Question

I was trying to write a script through which user can download the image directly.
Here is the code i end up with,
<?php
$fileContents = file_get_contents('http://xxx.com/images/imageName.jpg');
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.urlencode("http://xxx.com/images/imageName.jpg"));
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate');
header('Pragma: public');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($fileContents));
ob_clean();
flush();
echo $fileContents;
exit;
?>
But everytime i hit the url for the above script in the browser it returns a file with zero byte data.
would you like to help me to resolve this problem ?

Answer 1

Try the code below
<?php
$file_name = 'file.png';
$file_url = 'http://www.myremoteserver.com/' . $file_name;
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: Binary");
header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$file_name."\"");
readfile($file_url);
?>
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Answer 2

I notice that you use filesize on the contents of the file instead of at the filename itself;
Your code would work if it was:
<?php
$filename = 'http://xxx.com/images/imageName.jpg';
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.urlencode($filename));
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate');
header('Pragma: public');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($filename));
ob_clean(); // not necessary
flush(); // not necessary
echo file_get_contents($filename); // or just use readfile($filename);
exit;
?>