download the text file instead of opening in the browser

Question

i have one text file:

When i click the Download it should download and save it in my local download path.

I have tried.

window.open("data.txt");

and

header("Location:data.txt")

But both are open the text file browser it self. I what download the txt file.

Any one please help me..

Thanks

Manikandan.

Answer 1

Try this:

$file = "data.txt";
$text = file_get_contents($file);
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$file\"");
echo $text;