<?php
header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename=Booking.pdf');
header('Content-type: application/pdf');
readfile('http://mysite.com/Booking.pdf');
?>
why is the Booking.pdf file downloaded empty!??
mac and windows both say:
The file “Booking.pdf” could not be opened because it is empty.
checked google and stackoverflow, can't find relative info... has anyone experienced this before?
ps: I only found this forum post:'The online issue is a bit off topic I think, but is generally due to loading the PDF to a server in the ASCII mode of FTP rather than binary. That creates a corrupt file. Be sure to turn on binary transmission', but this is not true in this case as i can display the same pdf file in an iframe and it is not blank/empty.
You need to change
readfile('http://mysite.com/Booking.pdf');
To
readfile(__DIR__ . '/Booking.pdf');
Example
$file = __DIR__ . '/test.pdf' ;
header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename=Booking.pdf');
header('Content-type: application/pdf');
header("Content-length: ".filesize($file));
readfile($file);
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I need help with this script. I'm trying to get this binary file stored in a sql server DB . The main problem is that , each time im trying to show it in my browser or to download it, the file is corrupted . Heres my code:
$binary = $row['PDF_FILE_STORED'];
file_put_contents('my.pdf', $binary);
header('Content-type: application/pdf');
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: Binary");
header("Content-Length: ".filesize($binary));
header("Content-Disposition: attachment;filename=my.pdf");
ob_clean();
flush();
echo $binary;
Is there a problem with the encoding aspect? I just got this warning in my brower's console : "Resource interpreted as Document but transferred with MIME type application/pdf" . Any advices ?
To just download the pdf file, you don't need to save it locally on the server. You don't need to send content-length as that should be done automatically and I would skip the content-transfer-encoding as well.
If there was no output yet, you can also skip dealing with the output buffer.
Try this:
header('Content-Type: application/pdf');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=my.pdf');
echo $row['PDF_FILE_STORED'];
$file_name = $_GET['name'];
$file_url = $_GET['file-url'] . $file_name;
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: Binary");
header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$file_name."\"");
readfile($file_url);
exit;
I'm using this code to download files in my site fetching from another web servers.
It works if my url looks like this:-
https://www.example.com/file_download.php?name=video_song.mp4&file-url=http://www.googlevideo.com/video/play/221589
So, it starts downloading by fetching the file from http://www.googlevideo.com/video/play/221589 in my site. Now, though it downloads the file correctly, it does allow the downloader to see the actual size of the file. So, downloaders having problems with it (e.g. Time Remaining, Download Percentage etc.).
So what header should I use to solve this thing? Please explain it by coding.
You may try this:
header("Content-Length: " . $filesize);
This has been posted, but I've tried lot of solutions found on SO and more (like this: http://davidwalsh.name/php-force-download)
I basically have this:
{
$filePath = '../public/myfile.png';
$fileName = basename($filePath);
$fileSize = filesize($filePath);
if (!is_file) {
die("File not found");
} else {
header("Content-Description: File Transfer");
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename= " . $fileName);
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
readfile($filePath);
}
}
Files are recognized and downloaded, but .PNGs are empty and .DOCs are corrupted (and Word asks me to fix the file, then it's ok). I have tried also PDFs, and no problem with that.
I trues to put all sort of options (Pragma, Cache-Control, Expires, Content-Length, etc.), still downloaded files but corrupted in some way...
Did you ever had my problem? Please consider I'm on IIS 7.5
Thanks in advance
Open the downloaded files with a plain text editor like Notepad++. At the top you will find a PHP Error notice, it will tell you what's going wrong.
The error is probably "session already send". Then add ob_start(); at the beginning of your script.
header("Content-type: application/zip");
$contents=file_get_contents($the_file);
echo "$contents";
exit;
The file is about 40 MB. But, on downloading, size is only few hundred bytes. Please help!
Try to set Content-Length:
header('Content-Type: application/zip');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="file.zip"');
The comments are correct; it's very likely an error message that will be easily ascertained by opening the file in a text editor. I'd like to also offer that you could use the readfile function to greater effect. See the first example for some good code with headers that gives you a good download. Plus, it'll shorten your code by a line. http://php.net/manual/en/function.readfile.php
I want to allow a user to download a pdf file, the download code is below....for some odd reason even though the file is being downloaded I get an error saying that the file has been damaged on the server...Could someone help me and point out where I am making my mistake.
<php
$name = $_POST["name_first"];
$mail = $_POST['email'];
$number = $_POST['phone_number'];
$email_message = "first name: {$name} email is {$mail} number is {$number} ";
mail('fanaa#gmail.com', 'Form Response', $email_message);
if ($mail == "" OR $name == "" OR $number == "")
{
echo "Enter valid details ";
}
else
{
header('Content-type: application/pdf');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="tokina.pdf"');
readfile('docs/tokina.pdf');
}
?>
I used this code to download pdfs:
header ("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
header('Content-Type: application/octetstream');
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: Binary");
header("Content-length: ".filesize($file));
header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\"".basename($filename)."\"");
readfile("$file");
}
This should be fine, and make sure there are no spaces or return characters (don't escape php at all is the best solution).
If you find your still having problems, open the corrupted file with notepad (there may be a php error warning inside).
Hope this helps!
Remove the headers and look at the page, do you see any error messages? If PHP outputs anything else than the actual PDF source, the file will appear to be corrupted.
header('Content-type: application/pdf');
enable PHP extension php_gettext and you are done.
try taking out the double quotes in
header('Content-type: "application/octet-stream"');
so it becomes
header('Content-type: application/octet-stream');
Maybe your content-type is not correct. try this one:
header('Content-type: application/pdf');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="downloaded.pdf"');
readfile('original.pdf');
Your PDF file tokina.pdf is either not uploaded or not in the same directory as the PHP file. That's why it's saving as "tokina.pdf.htm" - it's loading the HTML for a 404 page instead. That is why your browser/PDF viewer thinks the file is "corrupted" - because its extension is PDF but its contents are not.
Make sure the file is uploaded, and if it is, make sure readfile is pointing to the correct path. If it's not in the same folder, use a relative/absolute path, for example:
readfile('docs/tokina.pdf');
And yes, the content type should be application/pdf
Using this script
header('Content-Type: application/force-download');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.$filename);
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Content-Length: '.filesize($filenamepath));
readfile($filenamepath);
I had the same problem. Comparing the original file and the downloaded file with a hexadecimal editor like UltraEdit, I found some characters at the beginning of the corrupted file.
The problem was that after ?> marking end of PHP code there were line terminators several times in my code.
Remove all the line terminators after ?> and read also the forum article Downloaded Files are corrupt - Common Problem. That worked for me.
I hope that can help you.
I use
$download_path = your path (where to look for the files)
set_time_limit(0);
$file_url = $download_path . $data['link'];
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . basename($file_url). '"');
//then to read the file
readfile($file_url);
this usually works for me