[RESOLVED] Headers

[obrienkev]

Hi all,

I have a script that downloads a file - either excel or msword.
However, although the file opens properly, a load of garbage is displayed.

Why is this? I'm pretty sure it's to do with the headers(since I've been playing with them for the past hour), and I've pretty much followed everything in the manual.
But still for some reason the file, when downloaded, won't display properly.

Here's my header code...

if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) && preg_match("/MSIE/", $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) {
// IE Bug in download name workaround
ini_set( 'zlib.output_compression','Off' );
}    

header('Content-type: ' . $type);
header("Pragma: public");
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . $name . '"');
print($content);

Any ideas?

thanks,

Kevin.

[obrienkev]

Solved!

I had the DOCTYPE at the top of the page.

So I guess always have headers before HTML and DOOCTYPE!!!

Code I used:

   if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) && preg_match("/MSIE/", $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) {
       // IE Bug in download name workaround
       ini_set( 'zlib.output_compression','Off' );
   }    

   header('Content-type: ' . $type);
   header('Content-length: '. $size);
   header("Pragma: public");
   header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
   header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . $name . '"');
   print($content);

[Weedpacket]

obrienkev wrote:

So I guess always have headers before HTML and DOOCTYPE!!!

That's why they're called "headers" 😉