using PHP to remove the extension from a file and then downloading it

Question

I recently had a asked a question very similar to this one, however after evaluating that I did not explain it in the best way I have come back once again explaining it in a gre

Answer 1

Just use headers to specify response type.

$filepath = '/wherever/the/file/is.png';
$filename = 'new-cool-name';
header('Content-Type: whatever/content-type-is');
header("Content-disposition: attachment;filename=$filename");
readfile($filepath);

This basically sends a response with specified content-type as an attachment and the body of the attachment contains the file contents. If you never sure what's the content type is, then just use application/octet-stream

Answer 2

Usually when you set out to push a file for downloading from a serverside script, you do so by utilizing http headers like https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Content-Disposition The filename of the downloadable file is specified in that header

Answer 3

Okay so to remove an extention from a file you could do is

$withoutExtion = preg_replace('/\\.[^.\\s]{3,4}$/', '', $youfilename);

...followed by your file download code