PHP - Force Download Audio File

I wrote a very simple web form that allows my user to view text files from within their Internet browser.

I implemented a feature whereby the text files returned by the search are compressed into a ZIP. Here's my code
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            function getFiles() {
             $result = null;
             $ZIPresult = null;
             if (empty($_POST['DBRIDs'])) { return null; }
             $mydir = MYDIR;
             $dir = opendir($mydir);
             $DBRIDs = $_POST['DBRIDs'];
             $getfilename = mysql_query("select filename from search_table where rid in (" . $DBRIDs . ")") or die(mysql_error());
             while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($getfilename)) {
             $filename = $row['filename'];
             $result .= '<tr><td><a href="' . basename($mydir) . '/' . $filename . '" target="_blank">' . $filename . '</a></td></tr>';
             $ZIPresult .= basename($mydir) . '/' . $filename;
            }
            if ($result) {
            $result = "<table><tbody><tr><td>Search Results.</td></tr> $result</table>";
           shell_exec("zip -9 SearchResult.zip ". $ZIPresult ." > /dev/null ");
   
    $fileName = 'SearchResult.zip';
    header("Cache-Control: public");
    header("Content-Description: File Transfer");
    header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
    header('Content-type: application/zip');
    header("Content-length: " . filesize($fileName));
    header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . $fileName . '"');
    readfile($fileName);
            } return $result;
            }

It works great If I download the ZIP file from the server using FTP (for example) but I force the download from the page header, the ZIP is corrupted.

What am I missing? Thanks for your input.

**PS: The new ZipArchive() library/class is not available on our production environment so I chose to use the Unix utility ZIP instead.**

Hello,

I have the following code to force download mp3 file. the code is working fine but its only downloading 799 bytes. I am new in php and not able to figure out the problem. please help me to sort it out. thanks.

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<?php 
                include "dbconnect.php"; 
                $link=dbconnect(); 
                $cat=$_GET['catagory']; 
                $id=$_GET['id']; 

                $query=("select *from $cat where id='$id'"); 
                $result=mysql_query($query); 
                $row=mysql_fetch_array($result); 
                $file = $row["link"]; 
                header ("Content-type: octet/stream"); 
                header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".basename($file)."\";" );  
                header("Content-Length: ".filesize($file)); 
                readfile($file); 
                exit;                 
?>

Hello I already know this is possible with php


<?php
$file = 'monkey.gif';

if (file_exists($file)) {
    header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
    header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
    header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.basename($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($file));
    ob_clean();
    flush();
    readfile($file);
    exit;
}
?>


But I am wondering is it possible to just send over a string of data stored in like $data and create a file clientside (nothing server side).

So i'm guessing readfile() has to be replaced with something

How to remove download option in audio control?

 

Edited June 5, 2019 by aveeva

I have a Joomla website having one folder for audio files in it and their links are saved in database.

Now I want to show two calendars to the user at front end, so that they can choose that from when to from he want to download the audio files?

for e.g he can select june-2-2014 in one calendar and august-2-2014 in second calendar, now on clicking download button the files residing between the two specific dates must get archived into one zip file and then start downloading...
  i have a reference link for creating a zip and downloading the zip :http://coursesweb.ne...-archive-php_cs   now i am stuck that how to get the selection of user from calendar , save it into the array , and from the array get the files from the folder matching the array indexes and then zip , download them.   please tell me how to achieve this task ?