PHP: Download a file on button click?

Question

I created a form, which, when a contained button is clicked, should open a download dialog to download a certain file. The file is placed on the same server.

I tried:

header("Content-Type: application/force-download");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=" . $file . '"');

Where $file is a local path + the file name, for example c:\mypath\myfile.xls. This does not work though. It offers me a file, but its not a valid file. How else could I do that?

Note: I wrote c:\ because its still on my local machine for testing.

Thanks!

Somwang Souksavatd · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-01 11:44:26Z

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Try this

header("Pragma: public", true);
header("Expires: 0"); // set expiration time
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
header("Content-Type: application/force-download");
header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Type: application/download");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".basename($file));
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
header("Content-Length: ".filesize($file));
die(file_get_contents($file));

I think file_get_contents() function is no longer work with PHP 5.0.3

edited Mar 1, 2013 at 11:44

answered Mar 1, 2013 at 11:36

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Ravinder Singh · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-01 11:37:12Z

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Try this :

$path = "http://www.example.com/files/";
$filename = "abc.gif";

header("Content-Type:image/gif");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".$filename);
header("Cache-control: private");
header('X-Sendfile: '.$path);
readfile($path);
exit;

answered Mar 1, 2013 at 11:37

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Prasanth Bendra · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-01 11:34:04Z

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PHP runs in server side, you can not download the files in clients machine.

Upload the files to server and then give that path for download.

answered Mar 1, 2013 at 11:34

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George Over a year ago

@user1856596 The server doesn't see it that way

Prasanth Bendra Over a year ago

Place the file where your php files are executing

ka_lin · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-01 11:34:07Z

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Path must be refered from the site root...move the file ex: script path : C:/wamp/www/test.php file C:/script.js then:

if(file_exists('../../user.js'))
{
    echo "OK";
}

Still a bad ideea..

answered Mar 1, 2013 at 11:34

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