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user2892875
user2892875

Reputation: 89

PHP force downloading

How do I make php force download a file. I have a file named song1, which is a song, in the file songs. so from the page I am at it is song/song1. How do I make php download the file as soon as the php is ran?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 37

Answers (2)

Gopal Joshi
Gopal Joshi

Reputation: 2358

Try below code

$file='song1.mp3';
if (file_exists('song/'.$file)) {
        header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
        header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
        header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.basename('song/'.$file));
        header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
        header('Expires: 0');
        header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
        header('Pragma: public');
        header('Content-Length: ' . filesize('song/'.$file));
        ob_clean();
        flush();
        readfile('song/'.$file);
    }

It will directly download file.

Upvotes: 0

Rápli András
Rápli András

Reputation: 3923

You have to send out some HTTP headers:

 header('Content-disposition:attachment; filename=song.mp3;');

Then you have to pull the song data with for example file_get_contents(). And finally use a die() or exit() to avoid adding extra data.

Side note: The above code will not work if you've already sent out HTTP headers (wrote out some whitespace characters, etc), so put it directly after <?php if you can.

Upvotes: 1

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