PHP Download file - Filename

[Weirfire]

I have a piece of code which allows people to download a file when they click a link even if it is an image file.

However when they go to download it, it always asks the user to save it as "download.[tag]" instead of saving it as the filename it already has. If anyone knows how to sort this so that it saves it with the existing filename please let me know.


//Begin writing headers
header("Pragma: public");
header("Expires: 0");
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
header("Cache-Control: public");
header("Content-Description: File Transfer");

header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");

header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".$filename);
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
header("Content-Length: ".filesize($base_file . $script_file . $filename));

[Big 'G']

header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".$filename);
try
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename");

[Weirfire]

Thanks Big G. I'll let you know if that works tomorrow when I get into the office :)

[vishwaa]

I guess that cache control and pragma should be private. May be I am wrong.

Here is a code that works fine for me in all browsers.


function downloadFile ($file, $mimetype,$outputFileName) {
$status = 0;
if (($file != NULL) && file_exists($file)) {
if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) && preg_match("/MSIE/", $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) {
ini_set( 'zlib.output_compression','Off' );
}

header ('Content-type: ' . $mimetype);
header ('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.$outputFileName);
header ('Expires: '.gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s", mktime(date("H")+2, date("i"), date("s"), date("m"), date("d"), date("Y"))).' GMT');
header ('Accept-Ranges: bytes');
header('Cache-control: private');
header('Pragma: private');

$size = filesize($file);
if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_RANGE'])) {
list($a, $range) = explode("=",$_SERVER['HTTP_RANGE']);
str_replace($range, "-", $range);
$size2 = $size-1;
$new_length = $size2-$range;
header("HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content");
header("Content-Length: $new_length");
header("Content-Range: bytes $range$size2/$size");
}
else {
$size2=$size-1;
header("Content-Range: bytes 0-$size2/$size");
header("Content-Length: ".$size);
}
if ($file = fopen($file, 'r')) {
while(!feof($file) and (connection_status()==0)) {
print(fread($file, 1024*8));
flush();
}
$status = (connection_status() == 0);
fclose($file);
}
}
return($status);
}

[PinoyIto]

You may try this one....


ob_start();
$dir = ""; //directory where the file is store. example : /home/lexor/public_html/dir/
$file_name = ""; //File name
$file = $dir.$file_name;
$file_type = $_FILES['$file']['type'];
header("Content-Type: ".$file_type);
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".$file_name);
readfile($file);
ob_end_flush();


This code work fine in my server, you may try it.