File Downloads

[Ninjakreborn]

Is there a way (in PHP) to prompt to download file regardless of it's type?  I have taken someone's suggestions and put files in a folder with HTAccess protection. ALL I want

to do is just grab the files and prompt download (regardless of what the type of file is), is there an easy way to do this in PHP.

[Ninjakreborn]

Here is what I have created so far. This does what I want, but screws up the file.

<?php
require_once('config.php');
$file_id = mysql_real_escape_string($_REQUEST['file_id']);
$sql = "SELECT * FROM order_files WHERE file_id = '" . $file_id . "'";
$query = mysql_query($sql);
header("Content-Type: application/force-download");
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($query, MYSQL_ASSOC)) {
$file = '../' . $row['file_name'];
$filename = explode('/', $file);
$filename = $filename[2];
header( "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=../" . $filename);
}
echo $file;
if (file_exists($file)) {
readfile($file);
}
?>

It does prompt download no matter what the filetype is.  The only bad thing is, it messes up the file.  So if it's an image file, it won't let me open that image file. 

If it was a PDF it corrupts it. I don't want to have to do a file detection, because I am not sure what all types of files it might be. It could be virtually any type of file.

Without having to analyze every possible extension.

[AbraCadaver]

Try something like this:

 

 

    $file = '/path/to/your/file.pdf';
    header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
    header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
    header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.basename($file));
    header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
    header('Expires: 0');
    header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
    header('Pragma: public');
    header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
    readfile($file);

[Ninjakreborn]

Wow, very nice. I took what you posted and adapted it to my code. It works great.

Thanks again.