Help with an automatic download page

[rossmurphy]

I've created an automatic download page that uses this code to initiate the download:

 

header("Content-type: application/force-download");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: Binary");
header("Content-length: ".filesize($file));
header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=".basename($file));
readfile("$file");
exit;

 

This works fine. The page that this code is on also has some text that alerts the user their download is starting soon. The problem is that this page seems like it never loads. The page with the download link should send the user to the next page with this code on it and it should display some text to the user but the page never changes. Although i do know it does reach the page because the download starts. But anything below the above code does not get displayed. Does anyone know what i can do to solve tis or know of any tutorials about downloading using php.

 

Cheers.

[twostars]

Not to be a stickler, but this isn't O.O.P.

Anything below "exit;" will not execute, as the script has been exited.