They want to generate a download dialogue, this one wants the link to force a download rather than opening the file in the browser. Add a comment.
Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Jacob Relkin Jacob Relkin k 29 29 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. JacobRelkin Quick question. Can you pass in arguments? Like download. Caperneoignis: Might be too late, but yes it is possible. Galen Galen Erik Erik Clicking a link that points to a PDF or an Image file will not cause it to download to your hard drive directly. It will only open the file in your browser.
Further you can save it to your hard drive. However, zip and exe files are downloaded automatically to the hard drive by default. You can force images or other kind of files to download directly to the user's hard drive using the PHP readfile function.
Your Website. Toggle navigation. Ask Question Share Tweet. Download Source Code View Demo. Ranarivelo Said Trivanho Said The readfile function is used in PHP script to forcibly download any file of the current location, or the file with the file path.
The syntax of this function is given below. This function can take three arguments. The first argument is mandatory, and the other two arguments are optional. This function returns the number of bytes read from the file mentioned in the first argument. The uses of this function are shown in the following two examples. In this example, we will create an HTML file with the following code, where the file name will be passed as a parameter of the URL named path , and the value of this parameter will be passed to the PHP file named download.
We will create the PHP file with the following code to download the file forcibly. Next, the header function is used to set the necessary header information before using the readfile function. The basename function is used to retrieve the filename, and the filesize function is used to read the size of the file in bytes, which will be shown in the opening dialog box to download the file.
0コメント