Download command??

[arun_md]

Hi,
Any Php command is available to download a file form a server?

Regards,
Arun.M.D

[bigduke]

How do you mean ?

[arun_md]

for some websites Download option will be there... i need like that.. which php command will be used to download files from server?

[Quaint]

It's called forced download and you do it like this:

readfile('yourfile.ext');
header ("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header ("Content-Length: " . ob_get_length() );
header ("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename");
ob_end_flush(); 

or

ob_start();
echo ('echo some stuff');
// echo more...
header ("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header ("Content-Length: " . ob_get_length() );
header ("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename");
ob_end_flush(); 

This will send the content of the output buffer to the user as $filename and will force a download dialogue. To get something into the output buffer you could either start it: ob_start() and then echo stuff.. Or you could use function readfile() (as described above)

There are better versions of the above, so try searching this forum for "force download"!

GL!