Php how to download file

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. The clearstatecache function is used to clear the cache that was previously stored.

Two arguments are used in the readfile function. Output After the download link of the PDF file is clicked, the following output will appear. This article provided a simple way to forcibly download any file using the PHP script, to help readers to add the download feature in their script. I am a trainer of web programming courses.

I like to write article or tutorial on various IT topics. Viewed k times. Peter Mortensen Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Pit Digger Pit Digger 9, 23 23 gold badges 70 70 silver badges bronze badges. I mean if its other than. Else this should work fine. So if you have a 10GB big file php tries to load that whole file? Not worked for me. K-Gun Marek Sebera Marek Sebera 38k 34 34 gold badges silver badges bronze badges.

But adds ' to the stored filename. Not working dear in case of png image for me. Show 1 more comment. Fabio: Will add more detials — genesis. That was super easy. It worked. Just curious. Just remove 'echo' prior to 'readfile ' since the return value is specified as "Returns the number of bytes read from the file. If an error occurs, FALSE is returned and unless the function was called as readfile , an error message is printed.

Display your file first and set its value into url. Where did you get this from? It seems powerful — Axel A. This is working for a very big file also. Great solution. Parziphal Parziphal 4, 3 3 gold badges 31 31 silver badges 30 30 bronze badges. I just tried this and it killed my server. Wrote a massive number of errors to my logs. It would be useful to know what the logs were about. Please check out the tutorial on regular expressions to learn the regular expressions in details.

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