PHP: How to make browser to download file on click

Question

PHP Beginner. File uploading is successful but my browser doesn\'t download the files, instead it reads the file. So i referred other threads and found below code which is not w

Answer 1

You have to use two separate files.

In link page, you can output a HTML like this:

Download file 1
Download file 2
Download file 3
(...)

You can use a

, if you prefer.

Then, in download.php:

1. Select appropriate file using GET/POST parameter ($_GET['file'] in above example);

2. send appropriate headers (like in your original code);

3. echo your file (you can use readfile);

4. Mandatory: no additional output in this script! Even a single additional space will corrupt downloaded file.