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Below is the relevant code. On the wamp server it works fine (file downloaded), but on the actual server the content of the file is echoed to the screen (without a specific instruction) but the file is not downloaded. Can somebody help me?

$FileName = $File; //"TestFile.txt";

Print ($FileName);

$len = filesize($File); // Calculate File Size

print ($len);

if(ini_get('zlib.output_compression'))
ini_set('zlib.output_compression', 'Off');
if (file_exists("TestFile.txt") {
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: text/txt');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=TestFile.txt');
header('Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate');
header('Pragma: public');
header('Content-Length: ' . $len);
ob_clean();
flush();
@readfile("$File";
exit;
} else {
echo "no file";
}

Well normally you have to send headers before you output anything else, so I would suggest removing the

Print ($FileName);

and

print ($len);



What is the point in moving $File into $FileName?

- $FileName = $File; //"TestFile.txt";

and then not using $File or $Filename


Why do an ob_clean() followed by an ob_flush() to send a just cleaned and emptied buffer to the client?


Try a header('Content-Type: text/plain) or header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');

    header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
    header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=TestFile.txt');
    header('Expires: 0');
    header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate');
    header('Pragma: public');
    header('Content-Length: ' . filesize('TestFile.txt'));
    readfile('TestFile.txt');
    exit;

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/23/2015 09:23PM by RiggsFolly.

Thanks RiggsFolly. I changed all that but same result. Any other ideas?

The issue about $File and $Filename is that at one stage (changing everything there was to changed I changed it all to "TestFile.txt"

I think your live server must be configured differently and is having issues with the mime types you have tried, which is a little wierd as they are not in any way special.


Is the live server accesible to you or is it hosted?

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It is hosted (GoDaddy), so pretty big and I cannot imagine it to be anything but standard
(?).

Good point.

Maybe it would be worth placing a ticket on them to see if they can identify what the difference is.

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Tried that too. According to them nothing special from their side!

Would you know why the content of the file echoes to the screen? Maybe the answer is in there somewhere

Changed the readfile() to :

$wasdownloaded = readfile("TestFile.txt";
If ($wasdownloaded) { echo "yes";} else { echo "no";}

and I get a "yes"

??

Hi,

When you have something that is not working or wrong, the first thing to do is look at the error log ... but to do so would require that errors are not masked and remove the "@" of function calls.

A second thing is to thoroughly test the return value of a function.

PHP documentation for readfile said:
Returns the number of bytes read from the file. If an error occurs, FALSE is returned and unless the function was called as @readfile(), an error message is printed.

You test:
If ($wasdownloaded)
that is to say, you verify that the result is true, but it is not what to do, you have to test if the result is false.

if ($wasdownloaded === false)
  echo "error";
else
  echo "no error";

If the file exists but is empty, this will not be considered true, but it is not false either because there will be no errors.

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I get a "no error", so from the server side the download happened (is that true, by the way?). So what puzzles me is where does it go wrong then. On my side? And what could cause that?

And if I print out the value of $wasdownloaded then I get the correct file length.

I (finally got it resolved. The problem was that I had outputted something before the download function. By moving the download function to a separate file, it worked!!!!

Wasn't that the jist of my FIRST reply!

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I know .. !