CodeIgniter - force_download() no output

Question

Fast to explain, but I can\'t get it to work:

In this simple code, the function force_download simply doesn\'t make any output.

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Answer 1

Remove that echo $data."/".$filename; It should be like this

$this->load->helper('download');
$data = file_get_contents("modulos/".$filename); // Read the file's contents
force_download($filename, $data); 

Answer 2

remove base_url() and do like this

$path= file_get_contents('./uploads/abc.jpg);

Answer 3

You should not call function after force_download(), Just remove the last line.

Answer 4

Just a note to anyone else who may be having this problem: Make sure you have a file extension on the filename you supply for the first argument to force_download().

CodeIgniter uses this to set the MIME type, and it doesn't seem to work without.

Answer 5

This will work with you

$this->load->helper('download');
$path = file_get_contents(base_url()."modulos/".$filename); // get file name
$name = "sample_file.pdf"; // new name for your file
force_download($name, $path); // start download`