Question

I am trying to send a PDF file. Here is the code that is executing:

$file_path = '/path/to/file/filename.pdf'
$file_name = 'filename.pdf'

header("X-Sendfile: $file_path");
header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='$filename'");
readfile($file_path):

whenever I download the file directly, it is fine. however when I try to download the file via this script, a file downloads that cannot be opened. my pdf reader tells me it cannot open a file of type ‘text/plain’. I also tried setting the Content-type to application/pdf , but I get the same errors. What am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

Have you tried this?

$file = '/path/to/file/filename.pdf';
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'. basename($file) . '"');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
readfile($file);

Using readfile() also eliminates any memory issues you might encounter.