I have a php script that generates a pdf report. When we go to save the pdf document, the filename that Acrobat suggests is report_pdf, since the php script is named report_pdf.php. I would like to dynamically name the pdf file, so I don't have to type the appropriate name for the report each time that I save it.
Asking on a news group, someone suggested this, where filename="July Report.pdf" is the intended name of the report
<?
header('Content-Type: application/pdf');
header('Content-disposition: filename="July Report.pdf"');
But it doesn't work. Am I doing it wrong, or will this work at all? Is this a job for mod_rewrite?
So I've tried both
header('Content-disposition: inline; filename="July Report.pdf"');
and
header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename="July Report.pdf"');
( not at the same time ) and neither work for me. Is this a problem with my web host? For this url, here's my code:
<?
header('Content-disposition: inline; filename="July Report.pdf"');
// requires the R&OS pdf class
require_once('class.ezpdf.php');
require_once('class.pdf.php');
// make a new pdf object
$pdf = new Cpdf();
// select the font
$pdf->selectFont('./fonts/Helvetica');
$pdf->addText(30,400,30,'Hello World');
$pdf->stream();
?>
Try:
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="July Report.pdf"');
or
header('Content-Disposition: inline; filename="July Report.pdf"');
Another option would be to use the $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] to pass your "July Report.pdf" - an example link might be:
<a href="report_pdf.php/July%20Report.pdf?month=07">
That file should default to saving as "July Report.pdf" - and should behave exactly like your old php script did, just change the code that produces the link to the pdf.
Should be:
header('Content-disposition: attachment;filename="July Report.pdf"');
Based on https://github.com/rospdf/pdf-php/raw/master/readme.pdf (Page 19)
The stream-method accepts an array as parameter:
stream([array options])
Used for output, this will set the required headers and output the pdf code.
The options array can be used to set a number of things about the output:
'Content-Disposition'=>'filename' sets the filename, ...
This code works well for me
$ezOutput = $pdf->ezStream(array("Content-Disposition"=>"YourFileName.pdf"));
In my case I use ezStream() but I think stream() should give the same result.
For the name shown on the title tab in the browser
I had the same problem, then i found that it's metadata missing inside my .pdf.
I used a tools ("debenu PDF tools") for edit pdf property like author, title, etc...
I just change title from empty field to what title I want, upload the new pdf and now, with same code, same script the browser show the right name!
For the name when u ask to save document
is what u specify in header filename=
Did you try to remove spaces from file name using hyphens? So, I think its name must be like this; filename=July-Report.pdf
Related
I am saving a pdf file, and then attempting to download it using php.
The script seemed to work fine, but all of the sudden not anymore.
Can anybody see what I am missing?
PS: the file I am downloading is only 4.3kb big, so I assume that would be because it is not downloading at all. The actual file size should be bigger than this.
$pdf->output(ROOTDIR.'/modules/addons/statement_generator/reports/statement.pdf');
if($action=='print'){
$file_name = 'statement.pdf';
$file_url = "http://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']."/modules/addons/statement_generator/reports/" . $file_name;
header('Content-Type: application/pdf');
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: Binary");
header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$file_name."\"");
readfile($file_url);
exit;
}
The $pdf->output() call will already send the PDF to the client. The file will not be saved to your local folder (Didn't you checked at least this?) because you have to pass "F" as the snd parameter.
After that you try to read from an URL (!!!!) that does not exists and which maybe return a nicely styled 404 html response. Two issues here:
Why are you using http when you have the local path used some lines above? Use the local path only!
The content returned by the URL is append to the already send PDF which ends in a document mixed of PDF and HTML (the 404 response) -> corrupted PDF
Conclusion: Use "F" as the 2nd parameter and use the same path for both writing and reading and not a mix of local path and URL.
Thanks to this topic I'm able to generate one single text file and download it on the fly. But I would like to generate two separated text files. My code seems like this:
$status = //math
if(status)
header("Content-type: text/plain");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=config.txt");
//...config text
include 'test.php';
Test.php file:
<?php
$timeout = "time";
header("Content-type: text/plain");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=timout.xml");
echo $timeout;
?>
the timeout.xml text is being included inside config.txt, generating only the timout.xml file to download. Is there a way to generate two separated text files to download on the fly?
You cant do it because HTTP doesnt support the downloading of multiple files in a single click..The best option would be zipping the files on the server and transfering it as said here.
Or you can use javascript to on the link to request two request to the server and which lets you fetch the data from the single click as #deceze and #brian said in the comment
I have got a button from where users can download specific files. Each time I will have to process the name of the file and put it in a variable before giving it to the readfile function to serve it to the user. However, in many cases the file name is quite long and may change over time so there is a potential of errors in the future. So I was wondering whether one can simply pass something like /filedirectory/*.pdf or just specify only part of the name and rest could be anything and then pass it to the readfile to download the pdf which is found there like in the example below?
if(isset($_POST["submit"]))
{
// We'll be outputting a PDF
header('Content-type: application/pdf');
// It will be called downloaded.pdf
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="download.pdf"');
// Whatever name the pdf has
readfile('./filedirectory/*.pdf');
#OR
// File starts with 123..
readfile('./filedirectory/123*.pdf');
}
You can use glob to list all PDF files and then you can select the name that you wish and readfile it.
Example
<?php
foreach (glob("*.pdf") as $filename) {
// Do something with the $filename
}
?>
You may get the list of files within /filedirectory using scandir() (http://php.net/manual/en/function.scandir.php) and find out whatever a file name might be.
Im trying to get a website to have a button that forces a download of a pdf.
Heres the html of the button:
<a href=scripts/download.php>
<input type="image" src="images/download.gif" alt="Submit button"/>
</a>
And the php script so far:
<?php
header('Content-Type: application/pdf');
header('Content-disposition: attachment;filename=documents/ECM_IT_ResumeDownload.pdf');
readfile('documents/ECM_IT_ResumeDownload.pdf');
?>
This seems to download the file fine but when I go to open it i get this error:
"Adobe Reader could not open 'documents_ECM_IT_ResumeDownload.pdf' because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been damaged (for example, it was sent as an email attachment and wasn't correctly decoded)."
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT
Opened the pdf in a text editor and got this message:
"
Warning: readfile(documents/ECM_IT_ResumeDownload.pdf) [function.readfile]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in html/scripts/download.php on line 4
"
The document is definitely there though. in html/documents/ECM_IT_ResumeDownload.pdf
$file_url = www.example.com/pdffolder/$pdfname;
header('Content-Type: application/pdf');
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: Binary");
header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=".$pdfname);
readfile($file_url);
Try removing the path to the file and just leave the file name in the content:
header('Content-Type: application/pdf');
header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename=ECM_IT_ResumeDownload.pdf');
Have you tried getting rid of the closing PHP tag (the ?>) at the end? It will treat the page as a pure PHP page, removing any possible new lines that might accidentally get appended to the end of the output. This helped me when I was dynamically creating excel files for download, and they were downloading as corrupted. Check out this page for more information:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.phptags.php
From your edited question, it seems like PHP is unable to find the file. Try using an absolute path to the file like so: "c:\blah\de\blah\bloo.pdf" or "c:/blah/de/blah/bloo.pdf". If one of those paths works and downloads correctly, your relative path is incorrect in some way.
I always use Gowon Patterson's download script, it also has hotlink protection:
http://by.gowondesigns.com/getfile/
By the way, a bit late, but to identify the problem properly here:
Your download script is at scripts/download.php and the file you want to download is at documents/[...].pdf.
Therefore, your readfile() function should be traversing to the parent directory (outside of scripts/), e.g. readfile('../documents/[...].pdf');.
I want to write a text file in the server through Php, and have the client to download that file.
How would i do that?
Essentially the client should be able to download the file from the server.
This is the best way to do it, supposing you don't want the user to see the real URL of the file.
<?php
$filename="download.txt";
header("Content-disposition: attachment;filename=$filename");
readfile($filename);
?>
Additionally, you could protect your files with mod_access.
In addition to the data already posted, there is a header you might want to try.
Its only a suggestion to how its meant to be handled, and the user agent can chose to ignore it, and simply display the file in the window if it knows how:
<?php
header('Content-Type: text/plain'); # its a text file
header('Content-Disposition: attachment'); # hit to trigger external mechanisms instead of inbuilt
See Rfc2183 for more on the Content-Disposition header.
PHP has a number of very simplistic, C-like functions for writing to files. Here is an easy example:
<?php
// first parameter is the filename
//second parameter is the modifier: r=read, w=write, a=append
$handle = fopen("logs/thisFile.txt", "w");
$myContent = "This is my awesome string!";
// actually write the file contents
fwrite($handle, $myContent);
// close the file pointer
fclose($handle);
?>
It's a very basic example, but you can find more references to this sort of operation here:
PHP fopen
If you set the content type to application/octet-stream, the browser will ALWAYS offer file as a download, and will never attempt to display it internally, no matter what type of file it is.
<?php
filename="download.txt";
header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-disposition: attachment;filename=$filename");
// output file content here
?>
Just post a link on the site to http://example.com/textfile.php
And in that PHP file you put the following code:
<?php
header('Content-Type: text/plain');
print "The output text";
?>
That way you can create the content dynamic (from a database)...
Try to Google to oter "Content-Type" if this one is not the one you are looking for.