Date: 04/26/05 (PHP Development)    Keywords: browser

A little bit of guidance, if you please...

I'm writing an application which involves the download of files. These files could be of any file, and must be downloaded as an attachment, rather than displayed in the browser.

This is the code that I'm using:

header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$download_realfilename."\"");
header("Content-Length: ".$download_filesize);
readfile ("http://www.whatever.com/docs/".$download_filename);

Content-type: application/octet-stream
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Repton Passwords.txt"
Content-Length: 70

File contents, etc.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/php_dev/55077.html