Comments on: PHP File Downloads

By: Shimon Doodkin

Shimon Doodkin — Fri, 27 May 2011 17:44:12 +0000

use ob_end_clean()

and exit() at the end of the file

By: Moe

Moe — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 21:27:02 +0000

Hello,

The code below works on my localhost to download a file. However, on top of my downloaded file there are 160 lines of HTML tags. How can I eliminate these tags and just get the plain file?
I appreciate your advice.

$fd = basename($csv);
header(“Content-type: application/octet-stream”);
header(“Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\”".$fd.”\”");
header(“Content-Description: Download”);
readfile($csv);

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:28:33 +0000

Good suggestion. I’m not sure why I put that there…

By: Stepas

Stepas — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 06:51:07 +0000

A great article! I suggest moving set_time_limit(0); out of the while() loop.