Simple php script to download file

Hi, i used your code to create a download. I would like to protect also my folder from url access, if i use as chmod value, the page will not return the download file, but it will stay blank the fopen fail.. Which value should i use for access files from the code?

Or protect your directory via. Does the download work with regular permissions? I deny the access to the folder. The script gave me an empty file. Do you use the windows versions? The file is opened in corrupted format. Do you checked the file size for the downloaded file? Tip: Open the file in your text editor, most of the time you can see an error message. Solve the the reported problem. Otherwise check also your PHP error log.

Thanks for the reply. But PDF, image file, txt file will download correctly for same code. I create a seperate controller for only download action. So i find that it occur because of some other code affecting file. The bad thing is that headers work different for different server configurations. Hi Serge, you need to use the right headers. In this example, we will create an HTML file with the following code, where the file name will be passed as a parameter of the URL named path , and the value of this parameter will be passed to the PHP file named download.

We will create the PHP file with the following code to download the file forcibly. Next, the header function is used to set the necessary header information before using the readfile function.

The basename function is used to retrieve the filename, and the filesize function is used to read the size of the file in bytes, which will be shown in the opening dialog box to download the file.

The flush function is used to clear the output buffer. The readfile function is used with the filename only, here. Output The following output will appear after clicking the download link of the image file. The file size of the rose. You can download the file by selecting the Save File radio button and pressing the OK button. If the file exists at the given file location, the file path will be required to mention in the URL. In this example, we will create an HTML file with the following code, which will pass the filename with the file path:.

We will create a PHP file with the following code to download a file from the file path. The PHP code in the previous example will be slightly modified to download the file from the given path.

However, zip and exe files are downloaded automatically to the hard drive by default. You can force images or other kind of files to download directly to the user's hard drive using the PHP readfile function. Here we're going to create a simple image gallery that allows users to download the image files from the browser with a single mouse click. If you see the above example code carefully, you'll find the download link pints to a "download.

Also, we've used PHP urlencode function to encode the image file names so that it can be safely passed as URL parameter, because file names may contain URL unsafe characters.

The regular expression in the above example line no-8 will simply not allow those files whose name starts or ends with a dot character.