Download file when clicking on the link (instead of navigating to the file): Click here Download file and rename it to mytextdocument.txt: Click here The download attribute specifies that the target will be downloaded when a user clicks on the hyperlink. This attribute is only used if the href attribute is set. The value of the attribute will be the name of the downloaded file. There are no restrictions on allowed values, and the browser will automatically detect the correct file extension and add it to the file (.img,.pdf,.txt,.html, etc.).
If the value is omitted, the original filename is used. You can use the header. You can do it with PHP or with.htaccess. PHP: And then you can either use the PHP's URL or redirect the TXT's one to it. If you want to use the PHP's URL but want to save the file with the original name you can swap this line in there: header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=yourfile.txt');.htaccess: Header set Content-Disposition attachment.
More 'Try it Yourself' examples below. Definition and Usage The download attribute specifies that the target will be downloaded when a user clicks on the hyperlink. This attribute is only used if the href attribute is set. The value of the attribute will be the name of the downloaded file.
There are no restrictions on allowed values, and the browser will automatically detect the correct file extension and add it to the file (.img,.pdf,.txt,.html, etc.). If the value is omitted, the original filename is used. Browser Support The numbers in the table specify the first browser version that fully supports the attribute.
Element download 14.0 13.0 20.0 10.1 15.0 Differences Between HTML 4.01 and HTML5 The download attribute is new for the tag in HTML5.
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I have a force download script that looks exactly like yours but does not work properly – the only thing that works is a plain text file. Pdfs and docs present an error messages. The files (documents) are stored in mysql as mediumblobs.
PHP mysqli query to pull them out.Just to test different issues – I created a simple “email that to me” php script which executes the same query and attaches the doc to the email (using phpmailer) and send it to you as an attachment (base64). You can successfully open up the desired word doc or pdf. However when you try to force download with the same query and the same file (without writing to a temp file) it does not work.
Is this an encoding issue? Googling is how I landed on this page $sql = 'SELECT formname,formsize,formtype,filecontent FROM emp.referencematerials WHERE formname='$fn'; list($name, $size, $type, $data) = mysqlifetchrow($result); // (I stripslashes) header('Content-type: application/vnd.ms-word'); header('Content-length: $size'); header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$name'); header('Content-transfer-encoding: binary'); echo $data;.I’ve tried encoding: binary and base64. @Bec0de: David says: This file alone isn’t secure.
You will want to validate that the file doesn’t provide access to your website code, files you don’t want downloaded, and so on. That code will be specific to your website and needs. @Anonymice you are wrong, headers says to browser many usable things (not to cache,length of file to calculate time elapse, and may other), many browsers can connect mime type of downloaded file with default action for that type (for ex: jpeg - open with photoshop; pdf - save to “myEbooks” folder). If you use force-download them some of headers aren’t necessary, but browser always will ask where to download file (even if you define “default action” for downloaded file type). Generally RTFphpM;) no offence nice job DW, thx sorry for my poor English. Solidworks 2014 software.
I´ve discovered the same strange ajax-problem while using a force-download php script. I´m using sammy.js for navigation and it is broken after a download. I can’t find a solution on this, and I simply don`t understand the above described solutions sorry.
But I would be very happy if someone could point me in the right direction. As a small hint, I’ve found a very simple solution for securing force-downloads: Take a look at this simple string encryption: with a call to the force-download-script like this: $encfilepath = urlencode(convert($filepath, $key)); and the following decryption in the force-download-script: $filepath = urldecode(convert($REQUEST'filepath', $key); no one can simply enter a url to download some of your sourcefiles Greetings, – mo –. @David, Can you please help me out. I am stuck in a strange situation my files are getting downloaded in different formats but they aren’t exporting the image i have used. The scenario is i have an HTML File containing some php variables for displaying report. I call this view file in my MVC based on the Format Type as PDF/Word/TIFF/Excel but the problem is Except for PDF format it is not exporting the image in any other format however other data in the table is getting print.
The headers i am using are as follows: EXCEL: header('Content-type: application/octet-stream'); header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=FILE.xls'); header('Pragma: no-cache'); header('Expires: 0'); WORD: header('Content-Type: application/ms-word'); header('Expires: 0'); header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0'); header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename='FILE.doc'); header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary'); PDF: Using Library TIFF: Using Image Magick.