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at January 5, 2009 06:29 by fruehjahr
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header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
// displays progress bar when downloading (credits to Felix ;-))
header("Content-Length: " . filesize('myImage.jpg'));
// file name of download file
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="myImage.jpg"');
// reads the file on the server
readfile('myImage.jpg');
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http://htmlblog.net/10-code-snippets-for-php-developers/
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Forces a user to download a file, for e.g you have an image but you want the user to download it instead of displaying it in his browser.
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Force downloading of a file
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image, download
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PHP