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60 <h1>Download Helper
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62 <p>The Download Helper lets you download data to your desktop.
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65 <h2>Loading this Helper
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67 <p>This helper is loaded using the following code:
</p>
68 <code>$this-
>load-
>helper('download');
</code>
70 <p>The following functions are available:
</p>
72 <h2>force_download('
<var>filename
</var>', '
<var>data
</var>')
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74 <p>Generates server headers which force data to be downloaded to your desktop. Useful with file downloads.
75 The first parameter is the
<strong>name you want the downloaded file to be named
</strong>, the second parameter is the file data.
79 $data = 'Here is some text!';
<br />
80 $name = 'mytext.txt';
<br />
82 force_download($name, $data);
85 <p>If you want to download an existing file from your server you'll need to read the file into a string:
</p>
88 $data = file_get_contents("/path/to/photo.jpg"); // Read the file's contents
<br />
89 $name = 'myphoto.jpg';
<br />
91 force_download($name, $data);
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