Download to local after ftp_get()

[cesarcesar]

I am using ftp_get to transfer a file from a secure location, to a temp location. (working)

Once at the temp location i need to have the file automatically download to the clients local machine. Something like a right click "save as" action. How do i do this? I'm thinking its done with headers but not sure.

My Current Code is below. Thanks for all responses.

 
// define some variables
$ftp_server = "123.45.67.890";
$local_file = '/scratch1/test/'.$name;
$server_file = $name;

echo "server file: $server_file <br>";

$ftp_user_name = "5a515";
$ftp_user_pass = "m5n5o5";

// set up basic connection
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server);

// login with username and password
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass);

if ($login_result) echo "Successfully connected<br>";

//change directory
ftp_chdir($conn_id, "tts");
ftp_chdir($conn_id, "incoming");

// try to download $server_file and save to $local_file
if (ftp_get($conn_id, $local_file, $server_file, FTP_BINARY)){

echo "Successfully written to $local_file\n";

}else{

echo "<br>There was a problem\n";
}

// close the connection
ftp_close($conn_id);

 

[NogDog]

You could do this:

// try to download $server_file and save to $local_file
if (ftp_get($conn_id, $local_file, $server_file, FTP_BINARY)){
    header('Content-Length: '. filesize($local_file));
    header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
    header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.basename($local_file).'"');
    header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
    header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
    readfile($local_file); // send the file
    exit;  // make sure no extraneous characters get appended
}else{

[cesarcesar]

Thanks much. This is exactly what i needed. rock on NogDog.

[cesarcesar]

it seems like the file was echoed onto the page. All sorts of odd symbols. Seized my machine up for a few minutes while rendering. Where is it off?

[NogDog]

Make sure nothing gets output prior to that section of code. If it does, then those header() calls will fail and it will, in fact, just be output to the page. If you can't see where anything is being output, you can put the following at the very start of the page:

<?php  // make sure no spaces/newlines before this tag
ob_start();

Then just before the readfile() call, do:

ob_end_clean();

[cesarcesar]

ok it working thanks so much.