forcing a download using PHP / jQuery
- by Dirty-flow
I know there are already many questions about forcing a download with PHP, but I can't find what I'm doing wrong and what should I do.
I'm having an list with filenames, and I want to download one of them by clicking a button.
My jQuery:
$(".MappeDownload").on("click",function(e){
e.stopPropagation();
fileId=$(this).val()
$.post("ajax/DownloadFile.php",{ id : fileId})
})
and on the server side I have a table with the file names and the file path.
$sql = "SELECT vUploadPfad, vUploadOriginname FROM tabUpload WHERE zUploadId='$_POST[id]'";
$result = mysql_query($sql) or die("");
$file = mysql_fetch_array($result);
$localfile = $file["vUploadPfad"];
$name=$file["vUploadOriginname"];
$fp = fopen($localfile, 'rb');
header("Cache-Control: ");
header("Pragma: ");
header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Length: " . filesize($localfile));
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='".$name."';");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary\n");
fpassthru($fp);
exit;
The AJAX request is successful, I'm getting the right header(filesize, filename etc...) but the download are not starting.
