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How to Force Download File from Remote Server in PHP

Dec 9, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Usually we download the files hosted in same server using php, but in this tutorial we are showing how to download a file hosted in remote server.

// File in remote host
$url = 'https://img.youtube.com/vi/HvCpSfkNrms/maxresdefault.jpg';

//download
header("Content-type: application/x-file-to-save"); 
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".basename($url));
ob_end_clean();
readfile($remoteURL);
exit;

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