File download troubles

[James_McMurray2]

I'm trying to allow users to download zip files from my site via php, but every time one is downloaded, it appears to be corrupt. The files open just fine. I am running PHP 4.2.3 with Apache on a Windows 98 machine.

Here is my code:

$mimetype = array(
'doc'=>'application/msword',
'htm'=>'text/html',
'html'=>'text/html',
'jpg'=>'image/jpeg',
'pdf'=>'application/pdf',
'txt'=>'text/plain',
'xls'=>'application/vnd.ms-excel'
);

$p = explode('.', $file);
$pc = count($p);

//send headers
if(($pc > 1) AND isset($mimetype[$p[$pc - 1]]))
{
    //display file inside browser
    header("Content-type: " . $mimetype[$p[$pc - 1]] . "\n");
}
else
{
    //force download dialog
    header("Content-type: application/octet-stream\n");
    header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\"$file\"\n");
}
header("Content-transfer-encoding: binary\n");
header("Content-length: " . filesize($path) . "\n");

//send file contents
$fp=fopen($path, "r");
fpassthru($fp); [/QUOTE] 

A dialog box opens prompting for Open, Save, Cancel, and More info as I expect to happen. However, the download progress message only shows itself for a few short moments and then goes away.

Anyone have any ideas as to wha I'm doing wrong or how I could make the process work?

Thanks!

[hand]

Instead of:
//send file contents
$fp=fopen($path, "r");
fpassthru($fp);

try it with:
//send file contents
readfile($path);

[James_McMurray2]

I found it. The path I was giving was wrong, so it returned a faulty filesize, thus ending the download after 4KB. I was trying to use /directory/filename instead of directory/filename.

Thanks for the help.

The readfile didn't work though, it tried to send the zip file directly to the screen as text. I probably had something else set up wrong for that though. 🙂