file downloads

sharyn

I am using Zend's zip class and trying to download a file. So far it works great in Mozilla based browsers and in IE win, but on IE mac & Safari all I get is the file spewed on the screen as text. Anyone else get this and know what the problem might be?

my code is this :

header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=myfile.zip");
echo $zipfile->file();

Thanks a mil.
- sharyn

sneakyimp

i've had some luck with this function...don't remember where i got it and i'm not sure it will help...

function jta_download($file,$filename){ 
	$size=filesize(urldecode($file)); 

$attachment=( 
	strpos($HTTP_USER_AGENT,"Mozilla/4")===false // Not Moz4 
	|| // or 
	strpos($HTTP_USER_AGENT,"MSIE")!==false) // is IE 
	? ' attachment;' 
	: ''; 
$content_disposition = 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=' . $filename;
header($content_disposition);
header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream"); 
header("Content-Length: $size"); 
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary"); 
readfile($file); 

}

sharyn

SneakyImp,

I tried that and that still didn't work :bemused:. Thanks though...

I ended up changing it to application/zip and it works like a champ in all the browsers I tried (Mozilla-based, IE, Safari).

see MIME types here : click