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Forcing a Save File

If somebody clicks a link, how can you write PHP code to take a file from the websites directory(in this case a .mp3 file) and then save it, causing a prompt box to pop up asking where the user wants to save the file?

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@LuboxJun 23.2007 — I use this, which seems to work fine:

[code=php]
$filedata = file_get_contents($filename);

header("Pragma: public");
header("Expires: 0");
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
header("Cache-Control: private",false);

header('Content-Type: application/force-download');

header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$filename.'"');

header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
header("Content-Length: ".strlen($filedata));

echo $filedata;

exit();

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@MrCoderJun 25.2007 — You could also use readfile() since I belive it is better for the server.
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