I need to use PHP headers like header( 'Location: http://location.com' ); or header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=$fileName"); from my wordpress plugin but it won't seem to how. I know that they need to be used before the page header is called, so I tried using the init hook:
add_action('init', 'test');
function test() {
header( 'Location: http://location.com' ) ;
}
but it didn't work.
If you want to redirect any page then use wp_redirect() method.. OR if you want to set the specific headers to make the content downloadable.. use below sample..code...
Suppose your url is like.. http://example.com/download/data.csv
add_action('template_redirect','yoursite_template_redirect');
function yoursite_template_redirect() {
if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']=='/downloads/data.csv') {
header("Content-type: application/x-msdownload",true,200);
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=data.csv");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: 0");
echo 'data';
exit();
}
}
