I'm trying to create a download so that a user clicks on "down" it downloads a certain file from their account to their computer, I'm currently using this:
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=' . basename("users/$username/$file_folder/$file_name"));
header("Content-Type:" .$file_type);
header("Content-Description: File Transfer");
header("Cache-control: private");
header("Connection: close");
header("Content-Length: ".$file_size);
The problem is, the file is downloading, but it's just empty, there is no content in the file
The code before this is just an if() and a while loop with database records.
Thanks in advance.
You are missing something like below: (unless the file is very large, in which case you would chunk it out)
$filename = 'path/to/file/file_name.txt';
echo file_get_contents($filename);
Alternatively you could populate a variable with the data you want put out into the file and simple echo it out like so:
$data = "begin\n";
$data .= "first line\n";
$data .= "another line\n";
$data .= "last line";
echo $data;
The content would be put out there AFTER your headers. Hope this helps.
The file is empty, because you never output the file. These header calls are just the header, you still need a body for a file to be correctly downloaded. You can use file_get_contents to echo the file contents.
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=' . basename("users/$username/$file_folder/$file_name"));
header("Content-Type:" .$file_type);
header("Content-Description: File Transfer");
header("Cache-control: private");
header("Connection: close");
header("Content-Length: ".$file_size);
// echo the file, this will make the download work
echo file_get_contents("users/$username/$file_folder/$file_name");
after you send the headers you need to actually push out the file content...
see this
http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-put-contents.php
Related
I've made a page where you can go and write text in a "textarea" and then when you click download you download that file as a .txt file. I've done the same thing to some other extensions and that is working fine. But it won't work with .PDF, nothing I read works. Here is the snippet I use for the .PDF downloading:
<?php
if($fileFormat == ".pdf"){
$content = $_POST['text'];
$name = stripslashes($_POST['name']);
$nameAndExt = $name.".pdf";
print strip_tags($content);
header('Content-type: application/pdf');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$nameAndExt.'"');
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary ');
}
?>
I'm grateful for any answear, thanks!
// hold the filename for use elsewhere so you don't have to append .pdf every time
$filename = "$id.pdf";
// create the file
$pdf->output( $filename );
// set up the headers
header("Content-Description: File Transfer");
header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename={$filename}");
header("Content-Type: application/pdf");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
// push the buffer to the client and exit
ob_clean();
flush();
// read the file and push to the output stream
readfile( $filename );
// remove the file from the filesystem
unlink( $filename );
exit();
I would recommend a class like TCPDF, see http://www.tcpdf.org/. I used it couple of times and it's quite nice (open source).
I need some eduction please.
At the end of each month, I want to download some data from my webserver to my local PC.
So, I've written a little script for that, which selects the data from the DB.
Next, I want to download it.
I've tried this:
$file=$month . '.txt';
$handle=fopen($file, "w");
header("Content-Type: application/text");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment, filename=" . $month . '.txt');
while ($row=mysql_fetch_array($res))
{
$writestring = $row['data_I_want'] . "\r\n";
fwrite($handle, $writestring);
}
fclose($handle);
If I run this, then the file is created, but my file doesn't contain the data that I want. Instead I get a dump from the HTML-file in my browser..
What am I doing wrong..
Thanks,
Xpoes
Below script will help you download the file created
//Below is where you create particular month's text file
$file=$month . '.txt';
$handle=fopen($file, "w");
while ($row=mysql_fetch_array($res)){
$writestring = $row['data_I_want'] . "\r\n";
fwrite($handle, $writestring);
}
fclose($handle);
//Now the file is ready with data from database
//Add below to download the text file created
$filename = $file; //name of the file
$filepath = $file; //location of the file. I have put $file since your file is create on the same folder where this script is
header("Cache-control: private");
header("Content-type: application/force-download");
header("Content-transfer-encoding: binary\n");
header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\"$filename\"");
header("Content-Length: ".filesize($filepath));
readfile($filepath);
exit;
Your current code does not output a file, it just sends headers.
in order for your script to work add the following code after your fclose statement.
$data = file_get_contents($file);
echo $data;
I download a file but it gives invalid file in return.
Here's my download_content.php
<?php
$filename = $_GET["filename"];
$buffer = file_get_contents($filename);
/* Force download dialog... */
header("Content-Type: application/force-download");
header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Type: application/download");
/* Don't allow caching... */
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
/* Set data type, size and filename */
header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
header("Content-Length: " . strlen($buffer));
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename");
/* Send our file... */
echo $buffer;
?>
download file link:
Download
$r['file'] contains the file name to be downloaded.
The complete path of the folder which contain the file is:
localhost/ja/gallery/downloads/poster/large/'.$r['file'].'
ja is the root folder in htdocs.
I don't know what the actual problem is, can anyone help me out please?
<?php
header( "Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel" );
header( "Content-disposition: attachment; filename=spreadsheet.xls" );
// print your data here. note the following:
// - cells/columns are separated by tabs ("\t")
// - rows are separated by newlines ("\n")
// for example:
echo 'First Name' . "\t" . 'Last Name' . "\t" . 'Phone' . "\n";
echo 'John' . "\t" . 'Doe' . "\t" . '555-5555' . "\n";
?>
As said in the other question, this way looks better:
$filename = $_GET["filename"];
// Validate the filename (You so don't want people to be able to download
// EVERYTHING from your site...)
// For example let's say that you hold all your files in a "download" directory
// in your website root, with an .htaccess to deny direct download of files.
// Then:
$filename = './download' . ($basename = basename($filename));
if (!file_exists($filename))
{
header('HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found');
die();
}
// A check of filemtime and IMS/304 management would be good here
// Google 'If-Modified-Since', 'If-None-Match', 'ETag' with 'PHP'
// Be sure to disable buffer management if needed
while (ob_get_level()) {
ob_end_clean();
}
Header('Content-Type: application/download');
Header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"{$basename}\"");
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary'); // Not really needed
Header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($filename));
Header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
readfile($filename);
That said, what does "invalid file" mean? Bad length? Zero length? Bad file name? Wrong MIME type? Wrong file contents? The meaning may be clear to you with everything under your eyes, but from our end it's far from obvious.
UPDATE: apparently the file is not found, which means that the filename= parameter to the PHP script is wrong (refers a file that's not there). Modified the code above to allow a directory to contain all files, and downloading from there.
Your $filename variable contains whole path as below
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename");
Do like this
$newfilename = explode("/",$filename);
$newfilename = $newfilename[count($newfilename)-1];
$fsize = filesize($filename);
Then pass new variable into header
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".$newfilename);
header("Content-length: $fsize");
//newline added as below
ob_clean();
flush();
readfile($filename);
I downloaded this code to use as a download button.
<?
$filename = $_GET["filename"];
$buffer = file_get_contents($filename);
/* Force download dialog... */
header("Content-Type: application/force-download");
header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Type: application/download");
/* Don't allow caching... */
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
/* Set data type, size and filename */
header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
header("Content-Length: " . strlen($buffer));
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename");
/* Send our file... */
echo $buffer;
?>
The thing is, the name of the file ends up with the whole path in the file name, for example, this code:
<a href="download.php?filename=images/something.jpg">
Ends up with an image named "images_something.jpg"
I'd like to remove the "images_" from the final file name, so far I haven't had any luck.
Thanks for the help!
If you need the file name part without folder name, you have to use basename($filename)
http://php.net/manual/en/function.basename.php
basename()
$filename = basename($path);
p.s
Setting Content-Type several times may not be the best way to force a download. Also, I hope you're sanitizing that $filename argument before you use a file_get_contents.
p.p.s
Use readfile, don't cache it in the memory.
$filename = basename($filename);
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename");
Set your filename to only be the basename?
Don't do it at the top unless you change the variables though so your pathing to it still works.
If I goto http://site.com/uploads/file.pdf I can retrieve a file.
However, if I have a script such as:
<?php
ini_set('display_errors',1);
error_reporting(E_ALL|E_STRICT);
//require global definitions
require_once("includes/globals.php");
//validate the user before continuing
isValidUser();
$subTitle = "Attachment";
$attachmentPath = "/var/www/html/DEVELOPMENT/serviceNow/selfService/uploads/";
if(isset($_GET['id']) and !empty($_GET['id'])){
//first lookup attachment meta information
$a = new Attachment();
$attachment = $a->get($_GET['id']);
//filename will be original file name with user name.n prepended
$fileName = $attachmentPath.$_SESSION['nameN'].'-'.$attachment->file_name;
//instantiate new attachmentDownload and query for attachment chunks
$a = new AttachmentDownload();
$chunks= $a->getRecords(array('sys_attachment'=>$_GET['id'], '__order_by'=>'position'));
$fh = fopen($fileName.'.gz','w');
// read and base64 encode file contents
foreach($chunks as $chunk){
fwrite($fh, base64_decode($chunk->data));
}
fclose($fh);
//open up filename for writing
$fh = fopen($fileName,'w');
//open up filename.gz for extraction
$zd = gzopen($fileName.'.gz', "r");
//iterate over file and write contents
while (!feof($zd)) {
fwrite($fh, gzread($zd, 60*57));
}
fclose($fh);
gzclose($zd);
unlink($fileName.'.gz');
$info = pathinfo($fileName);
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: '.Mimetypes::get($info['extension']));
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=' . basename($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($fileName));
ob_clean();
flush();
readfile($fileName);
exit();
}else{
header("location: ".$links['status']."?".urlencode("item=incident&action=view&status=-1&place=".$links['home']));
}
?>
This results in sending me the file, but when I open it I receive an error saying:
"File type plain text document (text/plain) is not supported"
First off, I'd start by checking the HTTP headers. You can do this in Firefox easily using the "Live HTTP headers" extension; not sure about equivalents in other browsers offhand. This will let you verify if the header is actually getting set to "application/pdf" and whether your other headers are getting set as well.
If none of the headers are getting set, you might be inadvertently sending output before the calls to header(). Is there any whitespace before the <?php tag?
Are you sure application/pdf is the header your browser is actually seeing?
You can check that out with various HTTP dev tools, for instance HTTP Client for the Mac or Firebug for Firefox.
I use this one and it works.
if(file_exists($file_serverfullpath))
{
header("Pragma: public");
header("Expires: 0");
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
header("Cache-Control: private", false);
//sending download file
header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream"); //application/octet-stream is more generic it works because in now days browsers are able to detect file anyway
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"" . basename($file_serverfullpath) . "\""); //ok
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
header("Content-Length: " . filesize($file_serverfullpath)); //ok
readfile($file_serverfullpath);
}
Try prepending "error_reporting(0);". I found this in the comments at http://php.net/readfile (where you took this example from).
Another thing that could be a problem is your file size. There have been issues reported in the past about PHP5 (we're talking 2005 here, so i hope this is fixed by now) having trouble reading files >2MB. If your file size exceeds this you may want to verify that it reads the whole file.