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antnewbee
antnewbee

Reputation: 1949

php pdf download getting corrupt

I have a code which force download a pdf file. Code below

$file_name = 'Bv_Ebook.pdf';
$file_url = 'http://' .$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].'/sites/default/files/'. $file_name;
header('Content-Type: text/html');
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: Binary"); 
header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$file_name."\""); 
readfile($file_url);

This code works on our beta server and the pdf is downloaded and can be opened.

On our live server same code downloads the pdf but pdf file cannot be opened, it says:

Unable to open document File type plain text document (text/plain) is not supported

I have gone though force download pdf and apache headers setting but nothing seems to work.

Any idea what could be the issue?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2442

Answers (1)

thedethfox
thedethfox

Reputation: 1741

Check file permission using is_readable() to check if the file is accessible or not. If accessible then check below :

Can you please try to modify your headers to the following:

//We'll be outputting a PDF.
header('Content-type: application/pdf');

//PDF name.
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$file_name.'"');

Then do a file read or what ever, in my case I have used file_get_contents(file_path) + echo to display the content and worked as a charm.

Upvotes: 2

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