Download pdf using php

Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Evan Donovan 9 9 silver badges 18 18 bronze badges. Haha true. I mentioned it only because it had the same example.

Plus 1 for the output notice. Remember to remove the single quotes around the file name. I recently experienced this on OSX. Show 1 more comment. Jason Marin Vartan Marin Vartan 6 6 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges.

Note that loading the entire file content into a variable may collide with the memory limit. That's why readfile is the preferred solution. I was having problem in Edge browser not able to detect PDF , this code fix it.

There are some things to be considered in your code. Havenard Havenard You don't need the closing tag? In this case, it's better to remove it. Fairly sure that enclosing a header-supplied filename in single quotes comprehensively breaks the downloading, so as you suggest, that makes a big difference. This is the only solution here that works perfectly!

Can you try this, readfile need the full file path. Krish R Krish R You need to define the size of file Flash Thunder Flash Thunder 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. Here we're going to create a simple image gallery that allows users to download the image files from the browser with a single mouse click.

If you see the above example code carefully, you'll find the download link pints to a "download. Also, we've used PHP urlencode function to encode the image file names so that it can be safely passed as URL parameter, because file names may contain URL unsafe characters.

The PHP script further below is simple download-one-file software without the other features Download Handler has. In your web page, link to the download script. The URL of the download script is followed with a '? Here's the Download-a-File source code.

No modifications necessary. Simply name it DownloadAFile. The file may be named something other than DownloadAFile. Use the Download-a-File software by linking to it. Append a '? The location must be the URI relative to the document root. Otherwise, the software will cause the file to be downloaded. The browser remains on the page with the link. With few exceptions, any file can be downloaded this way. Exceptions would include when the browser's preferences forbid it or the browser is on a system with no established location for storing downloaded files.