I save many documents outside the webroot.
I want to click a link, that opens a new window (target="_blank"), and force download the file that's found.
Here's what I've got so far, but my results show gobble-de-gook in the browser popup, rather than forcing the download to the desktop:
function download($filelocation){
$filename = basename($filelocation);
if (file_exists($filelocation)) {
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.$filename);
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($filelocation));
ob_clean();
flush();
readfile($filelocation);
exit;
}
}
In the new browser window I simply call that download() function with a specific path the the file.
It's definitely finding the file, but now I'm just wondering what I'm missing with header() to force the file through the browser.
Missing this:
header("Content-Type: application/force-download");
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I want to download a file from the upload folder by calling mydomein/download/filenem
It works in this way, that I received the wanted image, but I think I have a bug in the header which I output into my controller with this code:
$file=my_path_tofile;
header('Expires: 0');
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header("Content-type: ".$finfo->file($file));
//header("Content-type: application/".$ext);
header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache");
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$data['realname'].'"');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate');
header("Content-Length: " . filesize($file));
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
readfile($file);
exit;
If I call the URL, the download will start, the filename is fine and the size looks right too. But if I want to open the file I get the message that the file could not open in cases of corruption.
I'm not an expert about headers, so can someone explain me what is the problem is and how I can solve it?
I have the following code for downloading files automatically
at the click of a submit button, everything seems to work fine;
the file downloads in the rigth format, right size, right name, but when I
want to open it, I get an error, the file cannot be read, what could be the
problem?
$file=mysql_fetch_assoc($sel);
$file=$file['downloadlink'];
header('Content-Type: "application/octet-stream"');
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: Binary");
header("Content-length: ".filesize($file));
header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\"".basename($file)."\"");
readfile($file);
you could try tweaking this function from the readfile() comments:
function DownloadFile($file) { // $file = include path
if(file_exists($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;
}
}
I have an addition for this. If the file size is very big, it'll download empty file which we cannot open at all. That is not a problem with 'readfile' function itself. The problem is reading large files into memory. So, for preventing that kind of issues, we have to use 'ob_end_flush()' immediately before to the 'readfile' function for turning off output buffer.
Hope this tip will save someones time. :)
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.
I'm attempting to force a download of an image that is in a directory above my website root. The download happens ok, and the correct filename is saved. However, the end-file is not a valid image and will not open or display properly. Here's my code:
$photograph = new ViewPhotograph($photograph_id);
$photograph->setPhotographVars();
$file = $photograph->getPath('small');
$filename = '1.jpg';
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: image/jpg');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=' . $filename);
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
header('Pragma: public');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
ob_clean();
flush();
readfile($file);
exit;
do a ob_start before calling ob_clean()
once something is outputed by using echo or similar, you can't get rid of this, except, when you start a buffer before
Perhaps there's a PHP warning corrupting the stream.
Comment out the headers and see if you see a warning. If you do, fix it. (note that you shouldn't have display_errors turned on production servers).
How can I use PHP's include function to include a file and then modify the headers so it forces - at least that's how it's called - browsers to download ITSELF (the PHP file). Is it possible to also modify the preset save name, in order to change the extension from *.php to something else?
Thanks in advance!
PHP include function will parse the file. What you want to do is use file_get_contents or readfile.
Here's an example from the readfile documentation:
$file = 'somefile.gif';
if (file_exists($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;
}
Change the headers to suit your particular needs. Check out the above links for more info.