Downloading files

[angierussell]

I am trying to write to and then download a file. I am not having any trouble opening, writing to, or closing the file. I can ftp it off the server, and everything is how it should be. But when I try to download it, I get the php file that I am trying to download from. All the code does now is write a test message to the file and try to download. Here it is:

function download($type){
$filename= "/home/ermc2/ermc2-Www/downloaded.txt";
$fp = fopen($filename, "w") or die("Can't open file.");
$fout = fwrite($fp, "Testing file download");
fclose($fp);

 Header("Content-Type: text/plain");
 Header("Content-Length: " . filesize($filename));
 Header("Content-Disposition: attachment; $filename");

}

I have tried a million different things, and I am sure the answer is obvious - but not to me!
Thanks

[stratos]

Try the following

//just some content

$sd=date("Y/m/d/T");
download("$sd");

function download($type){
$filename= "downloaded.txt";         // here is 1rst mistake   

$fp = fopen($filename, "w") or die("Can't open file.");  

$fout = fwrite($fp, $type);
fclose($fp);

//Header("Content-Type: text/plain"); //here is the second
Header("Content-Length: " . filesize($filename));
Header("Content-Disposition: filename=$filename"); //here is 3rd
}

first mistake: fopen works with directories but headers seems to hate them

second mistake: if you want to download it (save as, etc) why you send a known mime type header??? You should send nothing (means unknown) or you could use the following:

header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");

third mistake. Erase "attachment;" and you forgot filename=

For me worked the above.

For more details about headers look at

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php