Make sure you are not outputing anything besides the headers and actual 
content of the file, you may also try looking at the downloaded file if 
there are any php errors and/or warnings.

Ralf Bengl wrote:

>hallo ...,
>
>my name is ralf and i read the comments from the last weeks about
>"download a file" with php on
>http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php.
>
>i tryed a few of this examples, but i have still a problem with downloading
>a file,
>i.e. a "ms-word file" or a pdf-file or something else:
>
>i can not open these files because of every file is damaged after  the
>download.
> i work with windows xp, apache server(apache_2.0.40-win32-) , mysql and of
>course php(php-4.0.4).
>do you have any idea of the problem or can you give me an avice where i can
>ask this question?
>
>maybe it's  a very simple and known problem for you.  i work with php since
>a few weeks and it seems to be very difficult to solve this problem for me.
>
>thanks
>
>ralf
>
>
>
>  
>


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