Question

I created a download function in php in which the file contains special characters in it.
but while downloading the file, the file name breaks from some special characters.
mainly while obtaining a space in file name.
my download function is this.

function download(){
            $filename = "google _(){}[]valentine~!@#$%^&*()_+`1=-.flv";
            $filepath = "uploads/" . $filename;
            header("Pragma: public");
            header("Expires: 0");
            header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
            //setting content type of page
            header("Content-Type: application/force-download");
            header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=" . $filename);
            header("Content-Description: File Transfer");
            //Read File it will start downloading
            readfile($filepath);
}

Answer 1

You should try to escape spaces with a “\ “.

Like this:

$filename = str_replace( ' ', '\ ', $filename );