Question

i have a tar archive on the server that must be downloadable through php. This is the code that i’ve used:

$content=file_get_contents($tar);
header("Content-Type: application/force-download");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$tar");
header("Content-Length: ".strlen($content));    
unlink($name);
die($content);

The file is downloaded but it’s broken and it can’t be open. I think that there’s something wrong with headers because the file on the server can be open without problems. Do you know how can i solve this problem?

UPDATE
I’ve tried to print an iframe like this:

<iframe src="<?php echo $tar?>"></iframe>

And the download works, so i’m sure that there’s something missing in headers.

Answer 1

I have used this code when I have had to do it:

function _Download($f_location, $f_name){
 header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
 header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
 header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($f_location));
 header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=' . basename($f_name));
 readfile($f_location);
 }

_Download("../directory/to/tar/raj.tar", "raj.tar");
//or
_Download("/var/www/vhost/domain.com/httpdocs/directory/to/tar/raj.tar", "raj.tar");

Try that.