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lopezi
lopezi

Reputation: 547

PHP to force download breaks document

I am using the following code in a php document to force download of a pdf form since the submission works only after you have it on your local machine rather online.

It downloads the file ok but it corrupts it. I can no longer open the pdf document.

<?php 
$file_name = 'costumer.pdf';
$file_url = 'http://www.lopezi.com/forms/' . $file_name;
header('Content-Type: application/pdf');
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: Binary"); 
header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$file_name."\""); 
readfile($file_url);

?>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 233

Answers (1)

Niels Keurentjes
Niels Keurentjes

Reputation: 41958

The Content-Transfer-Encoding header shouldn't be needed in this case. Further I suspect that you have corruption in the outputted file.

Download it somewhere, open notepad, and drag the file in there. If any PHP warnings or errors were generated you will see them at the top.

Also, try to avoid the option of having more content return from the script, causing problems with the download, end with something like:

die(file_get_contents($file_url));

This way you cannot accidentally break the code easily by adding more output.

Upvotes: 1

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