Download files from server php

Question

I have a URL where I save some projects from my work  they are mostly MDB files  but some JPG and PDF are there too   What I need to do is to list every file from that directory  already done  and give the user the option to download it   How is that achieved using PHP

User · Answer

Here is the code that will not download courpt files

$filename = "myfile.jpg";
$file = "/uploads/images/".$filename;

header('Content-type: application/octet-stream');
header("Content-Type: ".mime_content_type($file));
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".$filename);
while (ob_get_level()) {
    ob_end_clean();
}
readfile($file);

I have included mime_content_type which will return content type of file .

To prevent from corrupt file download i have added ob_get_level() and ob_end_clean();

User · Answer

To read directory contents you can use readdir   and use a script  in my example download php  to download files  if   handle   opendir   path to your dir           while  false       entry   readdir  handle              if   entry         amp  amp   entry                        echo   lt a href  download php file    entry    gt    entry   lt  a gt  n                       closedir  handle       In download php you can force browser to send download data  and use basename   to make sure client does not pass other file name like    config php   file   basename   GET  file      file     path to your dir    file   if  file exists  file       file does not exist     die  file not found      else       header  Cache-Control  public        header  Content-Description  File Transfer        header  Content-Disposition  attachment  filename  file        header  Content-Type  application zip        header  Content-Transfer-Encoding  binary            read the file from disk     readfile  file

User · Answer

Here is a simpler solution to list all files in a directory and to download it    In your index php file   lt  php  dir           allFiles   scandir  dir    files   array diff  allFiles  array                 To remove   and      foreach  files as  file        echo   lt a href  download php file    file    gt    file   lt  a gt  lt br gt        The scandir   function list all files and directories inside the specified path  It works with both PHP 5 and PHP 7    Now in the download php    lt  php  filename   basename   GET  file        Specify file path   path            uplods    download file     path  filename   if  empty  filename           Check file is exists on given path      if file exists  download file               header  Content-Disposition  attachment  filename      filename           readfile  download file          exit            else             echo  File does not exists on given path

User · Answer

If the folder is accessible from the browser  not outside the document root of your web server   then you just need to output links to the locations of those files  If they are outside the document root  you will need to have links  buttons  whatever  that point to a PHP script that handles getting the files from their location and streaming to the response

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