Php code to download a music file from server

In this post, we are going to see how to force download a file in PHP. Well, we can easily put an anchor link with the file path to be downloaded. Then why we are going to do it using PHP? Using the normal anchor link with file path is publicly open and the file path can be found easily.

After the file is downloaded, we update the downloads count for that particular file in the database. That's about it with file upload and download. You can further customize it to build cool PHP applications. Thanks very much for following.

Let me know what you think about this article in the comments section below, if you please. Privacy Policy Terms and conditions About Us. Toggle navigation. Tutorials Contact Sign Up Login. Related posts. Subscribe to get updates. Popular posts. Example Try this code ». Example Run this code ». Previous Page Next Page. All Rights Reserved. Share This:. Yet others forget that when you send a range, the Content-Length must match the length of the range rather than the size of the whole file.

You can output the file using the method described above, skipping until the start of the range and delivering the length of the range. I did my best to provide only accurate information. It would be truly sad for me if an article about avoiding common PHP errors contained errors itself. Regardless, my point stands: PHP makes it easy to hack together code that appears to be working, but developers should read and adhere to the official specifications.

Great post. Im having issues though. Im trying to get the remote files with using headers but it kills the ability for the user to be able to stream the podcast. BTW I found this post that was exactly what i needed and works great! It sends a bogus error if the range is not accepted and sends the full file size as the content length rather than just the length of the range.

Now, browsers are probably coded to cope with all sorts of errors, but we should strive to write correct code, not just working code. This method works for now and I plane to develop a better functioning version of this. Share on facebook.