Download files in laravel using Response download

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In Laravel application I m trying to achieve a button inside view that can allow user to download file without navigating to any other view or route Now I have two issues    1  below function throwing   The file   public download info pdf  does not exist    2  Download button should not navigate user to anywhere and rather just download files on a same view  My current settings  routing a view to   download   Here is how Im trying to achieve    Button      lt a href   download  class  btn btn-large pull-right  gt  lt i class  icon-download-alt  gt   lt  i gt  Download Brochure  lt  a gt    Route    Route  get   download    HomeController getDownload      Controller    public function getDownload              PDF file is stored under project public download info pdf          file    download info pdf           return Response  download  file

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I think that you can use    file  public path      download info pdf     headers   array           Content-Type      mime content type   file             With this you be sure that is a pdf

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In the accepted answer  for Laravel 4 the headers array is constructed incorrectly  Use    headers   array     Content-Type    gt   application pdf

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Quite a few of these solutions suggest referencing the public path   of the Laravel application in order to locate the file  Sometimes you ll want to control access to the file or offer real-time monitoring of the file  In this case  you ll want to keep the directory private and limit access by a method in a controller class  The following method should help with this   public function show Request  request  File  file            Perform validation authentication auditing logic on the request         Fire off any events or notifiations  if applicable       return response  - gt download storage path  app      file- gt location        There are other paths that you could use as well  described on Laravel s helper functions documentation

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HTML href link click   lt a   quot    route  download   name- gt file     quot  gt  Download   lt  a gt   In controller  public function download  file        file path   public path  uploads cv    file       return response  - gt download   file path      In route  Route  get   download  file    Controller download  - gt name  download

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HTML link click   lt a class  download  href    route  project download   post- gt id     gt DOWNLOAD lt  a gt       Route  Route  group   middleware   gt   auth     function        Route  get  file-download  id     PostController downloadproject  - gt name  project download         public function downloadproject  id              book cover   Post  where  id    id - gt firstOrFail             path   public path      storage uploads zip     book cover- gt zip          return response  - gt download  path   book cover             - gt original filename    Content-Type    gt   book cover- gt mime

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This is html part      lt a href    route  download   details- gt report id     type  button  class  btn btn-primary download  data-report id     details- gt report id     gt Download lt  a gt    This is Route    Route  get   download  id     users UserController getDownload  - gt name  download  - gt middleware  auth      This is function     public function getDownload Request  request  id                     file  public path      pdf       path of your directory                  headers   array                       Content-Type  application pdf                                       return Response  download  file  pdfName   filename pdf    headers

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File downloads are super simple in Laravel 5   As  Ashwani mentioned Laravel 5 allows file downloads with response  - gt download   to return file for download  We no longer need to mess with any headers  To return a file we simply   return response  - gt download public path  file path from public dir pdf       from within the controller     Reusable Download Route Controller  Now let s make a reusable file download route and controller so we can server up any file in our public files directory   Create the controller   php artisan make controller --plain DownloadsController   Create the route in app Http routes php   Route  get   download  file     DownloadsController download      Make download method in app Http Controllers DownloadsController   class DownloadsController extends Controller     public function download  file name         file path   public path  files    file name       return response  - gt download  file path           Now simply drops some files in the public files directory and you can server them up by linking to  download filename ext    lt a href   download filename ext  gt File Name lt  a gt     update to your own  filename ext    If you pulled in Laravel Collective s Html package you can use the Html facade       Html  link  download filename ext    File Name

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you can use simply inside your controller  return response  - gt download  filePath   Happy coding

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Try this to download any file  laravel 5       you need to use facade  use Illuminate Http Response     public function getDownload        PDF file is stored under project public download info pdf       file  public path      download info pdf           return response  - gt download  file

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If you want to use the JavaScript download functionality then you can also do    lt a onclick    window open    info pdf  class  btn btn-large pull-right  gt  lt i class  icon-download-alt  gt   lt  i gt  Download Brochure  lt  a gt    Also remember to paste the info pdf file in your public directory of your project

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While using laravel 5 use this code as you don t need headers   return response  - gt download  pathToFile      If you are using Fileentry you can use below function for downloading      download file public function download  fileId          entry   Fileentry  where  file id         fileId - gt firstOrFail         pathToFile storage path     app    entry- gt filename      return response  - gt download  pathToFile

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Try this   public function getDownload           PDF file is stored under project public download info pdf      file  public path      download info pdf         headers   array                 Content-Type  application pdf                       return Response  download  file   filename pdf    headers          download info pdf will not work as you have to give full physical path   Update 20 05 2016  Laravel 5  5 1  5 2 or 5   users can use the following method instead of Response facade  However  my previous answer will work for both Laravel 4 or 5   the  header array structure change to associative array   gt - the colon after  Content-Type  was deleted - if we don t do those changes then headers will be added in wrong way  the name of header wil be number started from 0 1        headers                    Content-Type    gt   application pdf                  return response  - gt download  file   filename pdf    headers

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