Laravel 5 Force Download a pdf File [closed]

Question

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i want to Force Download a pdf File in laravel 5. in laravel 4 i used the following code:

        $file= public_path(). "/site-docs/cv.pdf";
    $headers = array(
        'Content-Type: application/pdf',
        'Content-Disposition:attachment; filename="cv.pdf"',
        'Content-Transfer-Encoding:binary',
        'Content-Length:'.filesize($file),
    );
    return \Response::download($file,"Ahmed Badawy - CV.pdf", $headers);

but in laravel 5 that doesn't work.it comes out with this error:

Unable to guess the mime type as no guessers are available (Did you enable the php_fileinfo extension?)

also i tried this:

return response()->download($file);

same error apeared... what can i do to force a download in laravel 5.

I Solved it- Answer is:

it was a server thing. thanks any way. you just enable this extension: php_fileinfo.dll in the php.ini file. then restart the server.

Answer 1

Remove the headers, they're not necessary. In L5, you can do

return response()->download($file, "Ahmed Badawy - CV.pdf");

Please read the docs.