Using Header as download link in PHP

Question

So I am having this problem wit my download link. Basically my previous way of creating download link is to just have a form button with method=\'link\' and the action to be the

Answer 1

Something like this works fine.

header("Pragma: public", true);
header("Expires: 0"); // set expiration time
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
header("Content-Type: application/force-download");
header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Type: application/download");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".basename($file));
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
header("Content-Length: ".filesize($file));
die(file_get_contents($file));