[RESOLVED] readfile isn't worky properly on Wamp server

[empireapathy]

I pretty much just copied and pasted this from PHP.net's readfile page.

<?php
$file = "C:/wamp/www/Last Night.avi";
$info = pathinfo($file);
if (file_exists($file)) {
    header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
    header('Content-Type: video/avi');
    header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.basename($file, $info["extension"]));
    header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
    header('Expires: 0');
    header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
    header('Pragma: public');
    header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
    ob_clean();
    flush();
    
    readfile($file) or die("File not found");
}
?>

When I run this script, the download dialog pops up but it only downloads about 1kb of the movie. In IE downloads it as "Last Night", no extension, and Firefox downloads it simply as "Last" with no extension. Chrome gets the filename and extension fine.

Don't know if it has anything to do with it but when I turn off "display errors" Chrome gives me "This webpage is not available".

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[MarPlo]

Hy,
Ry use the relative path to the script:
$file = 'Last Night.avi';
- also, better names without spaces, e.g "Last_Night.avi"

[NogDog]

Remove the second parameter to basename(), as that is stripping off the file name suffix. Also, you may want to urlencode() the file name if it could contain spaces or other potentially problematic characters.

[empireapathy]

Thanks for the replies. No luck, though. I tried taking all the spaces and any special characters out of the file name, I tried a relative link, I also tried another file, an mp4 and got the same results.

I'm starting to think this may be a problem with my apache configuration. It is finding the file, if I use the wrong path the dialog just won't pop up.

[empireapathy]

I got it! I opened one of the (what I thought were) incomplete files in textpad and this is what was in there:

<br />

<font size='1'>
	<table class='xdebug-error' dir='ltr' border='1' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='1'>

		<tr>
			<th align='left' bgcolor='#f57900' colspan="5">
				<span style='background-color: #cc0000; color: #fce94f; font-size: x-large;'>( ! )</span> Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 209899521 bytes) in C:\wamp\www\downloadLink.php on line <i>17</i>
			</th>
		</tr>

		<tr>
			<th align='left' bgcolor='#e9b96e' colspan='5'>
				Call Stack
			</th>
		</tr>
		
<tr>
			<th align='center' bgcolor='#eeeeec'>
				#
			</th>
			<th align='left' bgcolor='#eeeeec'>
				Time
			</th>
			<th align='left' bgcolor='#eeeeec'>
				Memory
			</th>
			<th align='left' bgcolor='#eeeeec'>
				Function
			</th>
			<th align='left' bgcolor='#eeeeec'>
				Location
			</th>
		</tr>
		
<tr>
			<td bgcolor='#eeeeec' align='center'>
				1
			</td>
			<td bgcolor='#eeeeec' align='center'>
				0.0005
			</td>
			<td bgcolor='#eeeeec' align='right'>
				673704
			</td>
			<td bgcolor='#eeeeec'>
				{main}(  )
			</td>
			<td title='C:\wamp\www\downloadLink.php' bgcolor='#eeeeec'>
				..\downloadLink.php<b>:</b>0
			</td>
		</tr>
		
<tr>
			<td bgcolor='#eeeeec' align='center'>
				2
			</td>
			<td bgcolor='#eeeeec' align='center'>
				0.0006
			</td>
			<td bgcolor='#eeeeec' align='right'>
				675360
			</td>
			<td bgcolor='#eeeeec'>
				<a href='http://www.php.net/readfile' target='_new'>readfile</a>
(  )
			</td>
			<td title='C:\wamp\www\downloadLink.php' bgcolor='#eeeeec'>
				..\downloadLink.php<b>:</b>17
			</td>
		</tr>

	</table>
</font>

What I was actually downloading was a PHP error.
So it looks like I just need to figure out how to allocate more memory for downloads.

Edit: If you run into this problem, here's a simple line to put at the beginning of your script:

ini_set("memory_limit","12M"); 

The 12M is megabytes. So since the video I was downloading was 200 mb, I set it to 300M and it worked perfect.