CodeIgniter - force_download() no output

Question

Fast to explain, but I can\'t get it to work:

In this simple code, the function force_download simply doesn\'t make any output.

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Answer 1

Just a note to anyone else who may be having this problem: Make sure you have a file extension on the filename you supply for the first argument to force_download().

CodeIgniter uses this to set the MIME type, and it doesn't seem to work without.