Download a ZIP

[danhodge]

I have probably brung this up before, but it is slightly driving me crazy...

 

This is my current download PHP, which is working fine - i think someone here gave it me, or i C+P'd...

 

But the point is, whenever i change the type to ZIP and the file to being a ZIP file, it wont work - it downloads, but it tells me i can't open the actual file itself...

 

 

<?php 

$filename = "download.txt"; 

header("Content-Length: " . filesize($filename)); 
header('Content-Type: text/octet-stream'); 
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=download.txt'); 

readfile($filename); 
?>

 

Anyone know why?

 

Thanks,

Danny

[falkencreative]

Are you using the read Content-Type? I believe it should be "header("Content-type: application/zip");"

 

This may also have some useful information: http://php.net/manual/en/function.readfile.php

[danhodge]

This is the link to the website it is on

 

The download is currently just one file in a ZIP, so that i can test it.

 

 

Im thinking the security on my computer could explain why it isn't working - don't suppose you wanna try it and find out if it works on yours?

[falkencreative]

Nope, doesn't work for me either. Did you see my comments above?

[danhodge]

i changed it to application/ZIP

 

I was checking to see if that would work first - il check the link now..

[falkencreative]

I just tried some sample code from PHP.net (http://php.net/manual/en/function.readfile.php) that I tweaked to work with .zip files, and it's working properly:

 

http://www.falkendev.com/test.php (should download a "test.zip" file that contains a "test.txt" text file.)

 

Here's my code:

 

<?php
$file = 'test.zip';

if (file_exists($file)) {
   header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
   header('Content-Type: application/zip');
   header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.basename($file));
   header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
   header('Expires: 0');
   header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
   header('Pragma: public');
   header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
   ob_clean();
   flush();
   readfile($file);
   exit;
}
?>

[danhodge]

It works!

 

For some reason when i tried that it wouldn't work for me... i must of been doing something wrong...

 

Thank you so much

Edited January 15, 2011 by danhodge