Question

In PHP I know how to read a file. However, I want the script to be able to return the contents of the file to be downloaded.

For example:
http://example.com/myfiles.php?source=images.zip
I need myfiles.php to returns the headers of zip file followed by its contents.

Answer 1

You need to change the headers in myfiles.php script file so it will force it to download:

header("Cache-Control: public");
header("Content-Description: File Transfer");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=images.zip");
header("Content-Type: application/zip");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");