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What code do you need to add in PHP to automatically have the browser download a file to the local machine when a link is visited?
I am specifically thinking of functionality similar to that of download sites that prompt the user to save a file to disk once you click on the name of the software?
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You can force images or other kind of files to download directly to the user's hard drive using the PHP readfile() function. Here we're going to create a simple image gallery that allows users to download the image files from the browser with a single mouse click. Let's create a file named "image-gallery.
Send the following headers before outputting the file:
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"" . basename($File) . "\""); header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream"); header("Content-Length: " . filesize($File)); header("Connection: close"); @grom: Interesting about the 'application/octet-stream' MIME type. I wasn't aware of that, have always just used 'application/force-download' :)
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