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I want to require a file to be downloaded upon the user visiting a web page with PHP. I think it has something to do with file_get_contents, but am not sure how to execute it.
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After downloading a file with header(location) it is not redirecting to another page. It just stops.
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Read the docs about built-in PHP function readfile
Also make sure to add proper content type based on your file application/zip, application/pdf etc. - but only if you do not want to trigger the save-as dialog.
Or, when the file is not openable with the browser, you can just use the Location header:
Display your file first and set its value into url.
How To Download Xml File In Php
index.php
download.php
In case you have to download a file with a size larger than the allowed memory limit (memory_limit ini setting), which would cause the PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 5242880 bytes exhausted error, you can do this:
A modification of the accepted answer above, which also detects the MIME type in runtime:
The following code is a correct way of implementing a download service in php as explained in the following tutorial
That's all you need. 'Monkey.gif' change to your file name. If you need to download from other server, 'monkey.gif' change to 'http://www.exsample.com/go.exe'
How To Download Doc File In Php
You can stream download too which will consume significantly less resource.example:
In the above example, I am downloading a test.zip (which is actually the android studio zip on my local machine).php://output is a write-only stream (generally used by echo or print).after that, you just need to set the required headers and call stream_copy_to_stream(source, destination).stream_copy_to_stream() method acts as a pipe which takes the input from the source stream (read stream) and pipes it to the destination stream (write stream).