The file getting displayed in browser instead getting downloaded. It was working before. I made some changes to other part of my project.but I didn't touch this function, I have no idea what happened . please help me.
$filename=date("d-m-ys").".sql";
$handle = fopen($filepath."/".date("d-m-ys").".sql", 'w+');
fwrite($handle, $return);
fclose($handle);
$bits = @file_get_contents($filepath."/".date("d-m-ys").".sql");
header("Content-type: application/sql");
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$filename.'"');
print $bits;
I'm not entirely sure what would cause this to stop functioning, unless perhaps you changed PHP versions, however try the following:
Set the Content-Length header like this:
header("Content-Length: ".filesize($filepath."/".date("d-m-ys").".sql"));
And you can utilise readfile to avoid memory issues like this, it will read a file and output it directly to the output stream.
readfile($filepath."/".date("d-m-ys").".sql");
Another possibility is that somewhere else in the application you are outputting data, prior to setting these headers - this will cause issues as headers can only be set prior to any output.
You could try forcing the download using htaccess,
<FilesMatch "\.(?i:sql)$">
ForceType application/octet-stream
Header set Content-Disposition attachment
</FilesMatch>