Php how to download a 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. Generally, no PHP script is required to download a file with the extensions exe and zip. 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. Yeah sorry, the log file got so big I had to just nuke it, so I didn't get to see.

I was having to set up something like this on a server that I had very limited access to. My download script kept redirecting to the home page and I couldn't figure out why. Now I know the issue was a memory error and this code solved it. No buffer to flush. Jure Sah Jure Sah 2 2 silver badges 4 4 bronze badges. Grigor Nazaryan Grigor Nazaryan 4 4 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges.

Not very good coding practice. Especially without explanation. Linking to external tutorial not helpful. The answers above me works. Mo Chan Mo Chan 7 7 bronze badges. Zevan 9, 3 3 gold badges 30 30 silver badges 47 47 bronze badges.

Assasin Assasin 21 1 1 bronze badge. Welcome to StackOverflow. It's always advisable to include the code directly instead of adding a link to avoid the link issues. If you see the above example code carefully, you'll find the download link pints to a "download. Also, we've used PHP urlencode function to encode the image file names so that it can be safely passed as URL parameter, because file names may contain URL unsafe characters. The regular expression in the above example line no-8 will simply not allow those files whose name starts or ends with a dot character.

Please check out the tutorial on regular expressions to learn the regular expressions in details. Is this website helpful to you? Please give us a like , or share your feedback to help us improve.