A couple more headers than absolutely necessary, but this should work:
<?php
// open file and send to user
if($fp = fopen($downloadfile, "r")){
// output headers
$downloadsize = filesize($downloadfile);
header ( "Expires: Mon, 1 Apr 1974 05:00:00 GMT" );
header ( "Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D,d M YH:i:s T") );
header ( "Pragma: no-cache" );
header ( "Content-type: application/octet-stream; name=$downloadfile" );
header ( "Content-length: $downloadsize" );
header ( "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="$downloadfile" );
// read out file
fpassthru($fp);
fclose($fp);
} else {
// can't open file
}
?>
mh.
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've got a script that generates a txt file, compresses it into a Zip file and it
>all happens on a directory that is out of apache's web site.
>
> This script generates the file based on MySQL server information and I have it then
>sent to the user's e-mail address. What I would like to do is to make the PHP script
>"throw" the file to the user's browser so that it would download it automatically.
>This file is created on a directory that is not the same as the web server where the
>pages and php scripts are located.
>
> Anyone could help me with that?
>
> Thanks.
>
> regards,
>
> Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes
> Linux User #207984
>
>
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