A Beginners Guide to PHP Download Scripts

In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to write a PHP script that allows downloads.

To allow downloads from a server, you need to write a script that can communicate with it effectively.

PHP is a server-side scripting language and is well-designed for this task, with many versatile tools. I'm going to show you how to power the download using the HTTP header function.

Let's take a look at the HTTP header function. This function is used to send a raw HTTP header to a client:{codecitation}header( string, replace, http_response_code );{/codecitation}

Let's examine the three parts of that function:

string: This is a required parameter and specifies the header string to send.
replace: This is an optional parameter and its indicate whether or not to replace the previous header or add a second header. The default is TRUE which will replace the header, whereas FALSE allows multiple headers of the same type.
http_response_code: This is an optional parameter and forces the HTTP...



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