Send Zip File to Browser/Force Direct Download

send zip file to browser / force direct download

<?php
    // or however you get the path
    $yourfile = "/path/to/some_file.zip";

    $file_name = basename($yourfile);

    header("Content-Type: application/zip");
    header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$file_name");
    header("Content-Length: " . filesize($yourfile));

    readfile($yourfile);
    exit;
?>

force to download zip from server is not working

you need to change role in .htaccess

add application/octet-stream zip

PHP to download zip file works when called directly but not from web application

The PHP script is sending the actual binary source of the zip file, while the AJAX request is trying to display it as text, that's the garbage you get.

If you really want to keep the AJAX (it would be more simple to just make a <form> that is sent to download.php), you could do one two things:

• Just print the URL to $zipFile in PHP, and then when you get the response redirect to it with window.location.href=xhr.responseText;.

• Save the response as a zip file. See How to save binary data of zip file in Javascript?

php - How to force download of a file?

You could try something like this:

<?php

// Locate.
$file_name = 'file.avi';
$file_url = 'http://www.myremoteserver.com/' . $file_name;

// Configure.
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: Binary"); 
header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$file_name."\"");

// Actual download.
readfile($file_url);

// Finally, just to be sure that remaining script does not output anything.
exit;

I just tested it and it works for me.

Please note that for readfile to be able to read a remote url, you need to have your fopen_wrappers enabled.

Create a zip file and download it

Add Content-length header describing size of zip file in bytes.

header("Content-type: application/zip"); 
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$archive_file_name");
header("Content-length: " . filesize($archive_file_name));
header("Pragma: no-cache"); 
header("Expires: 0"); 
readfile("$archive_file_name");

Also make sure that there is absolutely no white space before <? and after ?>. I see a space here:

↓

 <?php
$file_names = array('iMUST Operating Manual V1.3a.pdf','iMUST Product Information Sheet.pdf');

Client download of a server generated zip file

I updated my bulkdownload method to use $window.open(...) instead of $http.get(...):

function bulkdownload(titles){
    titles = titles || [];
    if ( titles.length > 0 ) {
        var url = '/query/bulkdownload?';
        var len = titles.length;
        for ( var ii = 0; ii < len; ii++ ) {
            url = url + 'titles=' + titles[ii];
            if ( ii < len-1 ) {
                url = url + '&';
            }
        }
        $window.open(url);
    }
};

I have only tested this in IE11.

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