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BigJobbies
BigJobbies

Reputation: 4343

PHP - Forcing download of a file issues

Im having some major problems with an site im developing, basically whats happening is a user fills out a form, then jquery takes over and posts all the information to sendfile.php, it then is meant to force the user to download a specific file, but its just not doing anything at all and im not seeing any errors either, the file exists.

The code im using is as follows:

header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename="http://website.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/303lowe-logo.jpg"');
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate');
header('Pragma: public');
readfile("http://website.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/logo.jpg");

Any help would be awesome.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 315

Answers (1)

phindmarsh
phindmarsh

Reputation: 879

Based on what you said about using jQuery, I assume you are using AJAX to post the form results to the server. I think you will find that you cannot download a file using AJAX.

Perhaps consider doing the AJAX request then redirecting the user to a new page to download the file. If the redirected page serves the file directly, then the user won't even know they have been redirected (the browser will stay on the same page, usually).

Upvotes: 3

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