PHP - Php Code To Trigger File Download

On PHP 5.2.14.

I want to make files downloadable from my website. This seems easy enough:
<?php
$file = "downloads/someFile.txt";
// Set headers
header( "Content-Description: File Transfer" );
header( "Content-Type: application/force-download");
header( "Content-Length: " . filesize( $filename ) );
header( "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$file");
// header( "Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
readfile( $file );
unlink( $file );
?>
You'll notice, however, that I have "unlink" at the end of this file. That's exactly what I want: to remove the file from the server once it has been downloaded, to prevent anyone else from downloading it.

Here's the conundrum: When the user navigates to this URL, browsers offer the choice of Open/Save/Cancel. I don't want users to "open", and if the user presses "cancel", well then I probably don't really want the file deleted.

In short: I want the file SAVED, only. And I want to delete the file immediately after it has been downloaded.

Thoughts?

Hiya guys

After getting everything else working how I expected, I'm sort of struggling on the last step. Downloading

I have an upload.php file that allows me to upload a file to Mysql, the fields available a

upid - Primary
id - Need to link this to the logged on user id name
type
size content   The upload works perfectly

Can anyone help with implmenting it to the profile.php (1st page after login)

On profile page I have:

Welcome "username" from Session
Dynamic Table display his user id, username and password at the moment, this will be changed as not needed tho. I am using the sessions MM_Username to pass from the login

The table for Login looks like:

id - primary username password

I assume that if I can copy the ID from login and put it in ID in Upload and add colums to dynamic table to show the upload file, will this make that file only available to logged in user?

Cheers

I'm wanting to have users able to download a file, but I'm wanting it to be a file that only users who are logged in can download. Basically, I don't want a user to be able to enter the URL and download it while not being logged in. Does anyone know what I would use to do this? Thanks.

Hi PHP freaks!!   I have manage to make a script to upload file in database and its working. I will share to you the codes so for other viewers and readers to use also.

if($result){
			if($_FILES['LRCard']['name'] != ""){
				$filename = $_FILES['LRCard']['name'];
				$ext = strrchr($filename,".");
				$LRCardname = $student_id;
				$LRCardname .="_". $filename; 
				if($ext ==".jpg" || $ext ==".jpeg" || $ext ==".JPG" || $ext ==".JPEG" || $ext ==".gif" || $ext ==".GIF"){
					$size = $_FILES['LRCard']['size'];
					if($size > 0 && $size < 5000000){
						$archive_dir = "LRCards";
						$userfile_tmp_name = $_FILES['LRCard']['tmp_name'];
						if(move_uploaded_file($userfile_tmp_name, "$archive_dir/$LRCardname")){
							/*
								if LRC is successfully uploaded then LRC is stored in database.
							*/
							mysql_query("update student_information set LRCard='$LRCardname' where student_id='$student_id'", $link_id); 
							$flag = "success"; 
							if(mysql_error()!=null){
								die(mysql_error());
							}

						}
						else{
							if(file_exists('LRCard/' . $LRCardname)) {
								unlink('LRCards/' . $LRCardname); 
							}
							rollbackData();
						}
					}
					else{
						if(file_exists('LRCards/' . $LRCardname)) {
							unlink('LRCard/' . $LRCardname); 
						}
						rollbackData();
						die("You can upload LRCard of 5 MB size only. Please, try again.");
					}
				}
				else{
					if(file_exists('LRCards/' . $LRCardname)) {
						unlink('LRCards/' . $LRCardname); 
					}
					rollbackData();
					die("You can upload LRCard of .jpg, .jpeg, .gif extensions only. Please, try again. ");
				}
			} 	
		}
		else{
			$flag="error";
		}
		if($flag == "success"){
			mysql_query(" COMMIT ");
			$flag="success";
			if(mysql_error() != null){
				die(mysql_error());
			}
	    }

Now, my problem is how to make a Php script to DOWNLOAD this uploaded file considering the 1. file path 2. file name 3. file extension. 4. student_id (to determine the specific file from a specific student)   My plan is to make a download button which hyperlink to download.php and after clicking that button the specified file to a specific student id will automatically be downloaded by the browser.  

Hello everyone!

 I'm somewhat of a newb in this so anyways I have this script and I try to force a browser to download a file when someone hits a download button.

here is what I'm trying:

   header('Content-Type: application-download');
   header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=' .basename($dl_id));
   readfile($dl_id);

It seems to work in Chrome, Firefox, but it doesn't work in IE

Any suggestions?

Hi there,

I have a cronjob for PHP which generates a table with dynamic data and this table is exported to excel when run. When i have one table it downloads one excel file.

I want to download multiple excel files using a for loop. Please Help... Any suggestions will be helpful..

Thank you,
Regards,
Rohit

The following code works fine when using chrome or firefox, but fails with IE.
Error: Requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found.

Question: Does anyone see anything here that is a known bug with IE that I don't know about?

Code: [Select]
public function download(){
if($this->validateFile()){
if(!headers_sent()){
header('Content-type: '.$this->getType());
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$this->name.'"');
readfile($this->file);
} else{
echo 'Headers have already been sent and are preventing the file download from taking place.';
}
return true;
}
return false;
}

//I felt this function might be relevant to the issue.  I know, it's kind of a ghetto function, I'll improve on it some other time though.

private function getType(){
$types=array( 'txt' => 'text/plain',
'mp3' => 'audio/x-mp3',
'jpg' => 'image/jpeg',
'jpeg' => 'image/jpeg',
'gif' => 'image/gif',
'png' => 'image/png',
'doc' => 'application/msword',
'swf' => 'application/x-shockwave-flash',
'flv' => 'video/flv',
'mpg' => 'video/mpeg',
'mpeg' => 'video/mpeg',
'avi' => 'video/x-msvideo',
'rtf' => 'application/rtf',
'pdf' => 'application/pdf',
'zip' => 'application/zip',
'exe' => 'application/octet-stream',
'xls' => 'application/msexcel',
'xlsxl' => 'application/msexcel');
if(!$types[$this->getExt()]==''){
return $types[$this->getExt()];
}
return 'application/octet-stream';
}

I was able to upload the files to the DB but now am trying to retrieve it from the table but it's not working.   my code below

<?php                              
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($query1))
{
	 (list($id, $name) = mysql_fetch_array($query1));


echo"<tr>";
    
    echo"<td>&nbsp;$row[category]</td>";                
    echo"<td>&nbsp;$row[description]</td>"; 
	 echo"<td>&nbsp;$row[amount]</td>";
	 	?>
    <td> <a href="approved_req.php?id=<?php echo urlencode($id);?>"
><?php echo urlencode($name);?></a> </td>
<?php
	echo"<td>&nbsp;$row[status]</td>"; 
	?>
    <td><a class="btn btn-success" <?php echo"  href='invoice.php?id=$row[id]'> Pay </a></td>";?></a>
    
    
	  
  
     <?php  
    echo"</tr>";
}
  // }
   ?>
  </table>
  
   <?php 
if(isset($_GET['id'])) 
{
// if id is set then get the file with the id from database
//$con = mysql_connect('localhost', 'root', '') or die(mysql_error());
//$db = mysql_select_db('test', $con);
$id    = $_GET['id'];
$query = "SELECT name, type, size, content " .
         "FROM requisition WHERE id = '$id'";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die('Error, query failed');
list($name, $type, $size, $content) = mysql_fetch_array($result);
header("Content-length: $size");
header("Content-type: $type");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$name");
ob_clean();
flush();
echo $content;
mysql_close();
exit;
}
?>  
 

Thanks in advance  

The other day I noticed someone had post something like this, well this was actually the solution to the problem. But it got me thinking about a project of mine that I am working on and the need to pump out a downloadable file. We are storing most of the files in a database using base64 encoding the 2 key types of files we are storing are images and PDF's mostly pdf's anyway where I am wanting to go with this is, is there anyway to take the base64 encoded file and get it to download through this, or am I tackling the idea in the wrong way?

<?php
$filename = 'somename.txt'; //this would obviously be changed according to the file type we would output

$data =<<<DATA
I know my data would go here for the given file once decoded.
DATA;

header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=' . $filename);
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
header('Pragma: public');
header('Content-Length: ' . strlen($data));
echo $data;
?>

I have a page in which i upload a circular & also select users who can view this page using multiple select dropdown box.

Now how to display the uploaded file to selected users when they login and not to other users.

Can anybody help.
Thanks in advance.

Hello,

I am working on a project that downloads large zip files from server, for small files the script works well and downlaod files successfully, but for larger files like currently we are trying to download a 922MB file it gives us this message (in firefox) and doesn't download any thing.

"
File not found

Firefox can't find the file at http://www.domainname.com/abc.zip

"
Script to download the file is as below:

"
$filename = "xyz.mp3;

header("Pragma: public");
header("Expires: 0");
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");

header("Content-Type: application/force-download");
header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Type: application/download");

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

header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
header("Content-Length: ".filesize($filename));

if( !ini_get('safe_mode') )
set_time_limit(360000000);

readfile("$filename");
"

Please advise what can be issue, if its file size issue then how and where can we increase the limit to solve this issue.

pre-thanks,

I am a newbie. I need some guidance for logging onto an existing site, and downloading files.

Some tips what I should be looking for?

Thanks.

I am using a script for users to download a file, however after the download I want to be able to
redirect the user or display a message etc... but I cannot get it to work.

My download code is below;

if($do_download){

 $filename = 'file.zip';
 $itemfile = ('/abc/123/htdocs/bin/'.$filename);
 $filelength = filesize($itemfile);

 $fp = @fopen($itemfile, "rb");

ob_start();
  Header("Pragma: public");
  Header("Expires: 0");
  Header("Cache-control: private");
  Header("Content-Type: application/x-zip-compressed");
  Header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
  Header("Content-Length: $filelength");
  Header("Accept-Ranges: bytes");
  Header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$filename.'"');
  Header("Connection: close");
ob_end_clean();
  while(!feof($fp)){
  print stream_get_contents($fp); // for PHP 5+ else use fread
 }
 fclose($fp);

 header('Location: page2.php');
}

It doesn't seem to matter what I do whether a redirect or just an echo command nothing continues after the file is downloaded????

Hi, i have a table which shows some mysql data, every entry has a checkbox to select individual entries, now i want to be able to export those selected entries into a xml or txt file, i tried this:

Code: [Select]
<?php
if($_POST['exporttxt']){
for($i=0;$i<count($_POST['checkbox']);$i++){
$export_id = $checkbox[$i];

$sql = "SELECT * FROM table WHERE id='$export_id'";
$result = mysql_query($sql);}
 

$output = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<root>\n";
if($result->num_rows > 0)
{
while($myrow = $result->fetch_assoc())
{
$output .= "\t<row>\n";
foreach($myrow as $_name => $_value)
{
$output .= "\t\t<$_name>$_value</$_name>\n";
}
$output .= "\t</row>\n";
}
}
$output .= "</root>";
}

header('content-type: text/xml');
header('content-disposition: attachment; filename=data_export.xml');
echo $output;
exit;

?>
but that doesn't seem to work. Any hints ?

Is it possible to connect via php to ftp and download part of file (about 2MB from file)