PHP - FORCEFUL DOWNLOADING OF FILE

If you want certain files to download instead of opening in new tab, you can use the below snippet.

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function force_download($file) {     $dir      = "../log/exports/";     if ((isset($file))&&(file_exists($dir.$file))) {        header("Content-type: application/force-download");        header('Content-Disposition: inline; filename="' . $dir.$file . '"');        header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: Binary");        header("Content-length: ".filesize($dir.$file));        header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');        header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . $file . '"');        readfile("$dir$file");     } else {        echo "No file selected";     }   }

Syntax

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<php force_download("image.jpg"); ?>