PHP Download file - Filename

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));

PHP:

 

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

 

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

 

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);
}

PHP:

 

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(); 

Code (markup):

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