Downloaded .RAR file opens without any content

Question

For my own website I want to have a page where you can download .rar files from. However when I download and open the file. I get a message box saying: "No archives found.".

I dont know what to do, this is my code.

$filename="inputValidatorCasd.rar";
$file="c:\\wamp\\www\\DennisWeb\\Files\\$filename"; 
$len = filesize($file);  
ob_clean(); 
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:application/octet-stream"); 
$header="Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename;"; 
header($header); 
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary"); 
header("Content-Length: ".$len);  
@readfile($file); 
exit;

Try to remove the `@` from `@readfile($file)` and you might get an error message. `@` suppresses errors and is a really bad practice. — M. Eriksson, Jan 08 '16 at 12:30
Comment out all headers and just send the output to the browser to see if it actually gets any content... — M. Eriksson, Jan 08 '16 at 12:46
Did that, I believe there is no content however the path I gave is correct. — Dennis Castelijns, Jan 08 '16 at 12:57
Well, if you don't get any content with readfile, the issue isn't the above code. You can always try with `is_file($file)` to see if your script can see the file at all. Other than that, check file permissions etc.... — M. Eriksson, Jan 08 '16 at 13:05

score -2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 08 '16 at 12:32

You can use following method to download RAR file :-

$album_name = "testing"
$files = array("1.txt", "2.txt"); // array of your files

$zip = new ZipArchive();

# create a temp file & open it
$tmp_file = tempnam('.','');
$zip->open($tmp_file, ZipArchive::CREATE);

# loop through each file
foreach($files as $file){

    # download file
    $download_file = file_get_contents($file);

    #add it to the zip
    $zip->addFromString(basename($file),$download_file);

}

# close zip
$zip->close();

# send the file to the browser as a download
header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename='.$album_name.'.rar');
header('Content-type: application/zip');
readfile($tmp_file);

It may help you.

Renaming a .zip file to .rar does note make it a rar archive. Also, the question is not about how to create an archive. — Gerald Schneider, Jan 08 '16 at 12:37

Downloaded .RAR file opens without any content

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