Help with header

[jamiet757]

I need some help with header().

 

I am trying to make it so an image will be downloaded when the user loads the php file. I can figure out header("location:image.jpg") but here are my questions:

 

1. The image is on another server, can I just put location:http://domain.com/image.jpg?

2. How do I get it to download(save) the image, instead of just displaying it in the browser? Can I use readfile?

[JustLikeIcarus]

Here maybe these headers will point you in the right direction

 

header("Cache-Control: public");
header("Content-Description: File Transfer");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$file");
header("Content-Type: application/$mimetype");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");

 

[phpnewbie8]

I need some help with header().

 

I am trying to make it so an image will be downloaded when the user loads the php file. I can figure out header("location:image.jpg") but here are my questions:

 

1. The image is on another server, can I just put location:http://domain.com/image.jpg?

2. How do I get it to download(save) the image, instead of just displaying it in the browser? Can I use readfile?

 

This is probably not the most complete example but it works:

 

<?php

header('Content-type: image/jpeg');

header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="image.jpg"');

readfile('http://middlezonemusings.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/eiffel-tower.jpg');
?>

[jamiet757]

I need some help with header().

 

I am trying to make it so an image will be downloaded when the user loads the php file. I can figure out header("location:image.jpg") but here are my questions:

 

1. The image is on another server, can I just put location:http://domain.com/image.jpg?

2. How do I get it to download(save) the image, instead of just displaying it in the browser? Can I use readfile?

 

This is probably not the most complete example but it works:

 

<?php

header('Content-type: image/jpeg');

header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="image.jpg"');

readfile('[url=http://middlezonemusings.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/eiffel-tower.jpg%27]http://middlezonemusings.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/eiffel-tower.jpg'[/url]);
?>

 

I tried that and it does download a file called image.jpg, the problem is it is corrupt, it does not display as an image, and the size does not correspond to the image it is supposed to be downloading.

[jamiet757]

Can anyone help me figure out how to make it read an external file from a URL?

[JustLikeIcarus]

How about this?

 

header('Content-type: image/jpeg');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="image.jpg"');
$content = file_get_contents('http://middlezonemusings.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/eiffel-tower.jpg');
echo $content;

[jamiet757]

Well I tried that and this time it actually downloaded the image (with the correct size) but it still didn't display as an image. Is there a way to keep the original filename instead of calling it image.jpg or whatever? Do I just remove the

header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="image.jpg"');

 

line?

[jamiet757]

Ok, so here is what I have now:

header("Cache-Control: public");
header("Content-Description: File Transfer");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$file");
header('Content-type: image/jpeg');
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
readfile($content);

 

It downloads the file with the original filename (what I want) and when I open the image in Photoshop it displays correctly, however if I try to preview it using Windows Photo Viewer, it doesn't show up. This is for a stock image site, so when a customer downloads the image, it needs to work right otherwise I will get a lot of complaints.

[JustLikeIcarus]

Ok I got this working fine for me.  It wont give you  the filename you want but that is easy to pull from the url.

 

$file = 'http://middlezonemusings.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/eiffel-tower.jpg';
header("Cache-Control: public");
header("Content-Description: File Transfer");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$file");
header('Content-type: image/jpeg');
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
readfile($file);