PHP readfile() adding extra bytes to downloaded file

Question

I am trying to troubleshoot an issue I am having with downloading a \"zip\" file from a php script. It seems that when I download the file using the following code, the dow

Answer 1

I ran into a similar issue today related to readfile(). It turns out my php.ini file has output compression enabled and that was messing up the flash module trying to retrieve the file. (I guess it couldn't handle it.)

All I had to do was the turn off the compression in the php.ini file:

zlib.output_compression = off

Or alternatively, in your script:

Just want to share this in case someone else was having trouble receiving files from a readfile() output.