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Description

If you are annoyed with pdf's that open in the browser as I am here is a way to force the user to be prompted to download a file. Changed the $filename directory to the directory that you have all of your pdf, doc, or other binary files. Then just make a call for the file. Example (downdload.php?file=myFile.pdf) and it will prompt the user to open the file for save it to disk.

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By	brian461
Level	Beginner
User Rating	4.8 (19 globes from 4 users)
Compatibility	PHP 4.0, PHP 5.0
Category	Files
World	PHP
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Source Code

<?php
if (isset($_GET['file'])) {
 $file = $_GET['file'];
	header("Content-Type: application/force-download\n");
	header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$file");
	$filename = "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/" . $file;
	$contents = fread(fopen($filename, "rb"), filesize($filename));
	echo $contents;
} else {
	echo "No file specified";
}
?>