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Force download

This codesnippet is used to force a download of any type of file, including images and html pages.

function force_download ($data$name$mimetype=''$filesize=false) {
    
// File size not set?
    
if ($filesize == false OR !is_numeric($filesize)) {
        
$filesize strlen($data);
    }

    
// Mimetype not set?
    
if (empty($mimetype)) {
        
$mimetype 'application/octet-stream';
    }

    
// Make sure there's not anything else left
    
ob_clean_all();

    
// Start sending headers
    
header("Pragma: public"); // required
    
header("Expires: 0");
    
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
    
header("Cache-Control: private",false); // required for certain browsers
    
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
    
header("Content-Type: " $mimetype);
    
header("Content-Length: " $filesize);
    
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"" $name "\";" );

    
// Send data
    
echo $data;
    die();
}

function 
ob_clean_all () {
    
$ob_active ob_get_length () !== false;
    while(
$ob_active) {
        
ob_end_clean();
        
$ob_active ob_get_length () !== false;
    }

    return 
true;
}
?>

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