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Cant open .doc file after download in php

I have a script to download files with php, and it works great. But when I download a .doc type file and I open it in MS Word it says that I have to select a encoding and most of the text is in this format:

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This are my headers:

header("Pragma: public");
header("Expires: 0");
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
header("Cache-Control: public");
header("Content-Description: File Transfer");
header("Content-Type: $mtype");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$newFile\"");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
header("Content-Length: " . $fsize);
$mtype  = application/msword
Solution

  • You have to add header('Content-type: application/octet-stream');.

    Not sure what your $mtype = application/msword is supposed to do...

    And change header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$newFile\""); to header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$newFile'."');

    After the headers just use:

    ob_clean();
ob_end_flush();
readfile($file_path);
exit;