Re: Media View not downloading unless I set headers

Have you checked your error log? A white screen typically means a fatal error.

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Mike Cook <mike@epubbooks.com> wrote:
>
> I am unable to get the Media View to force the download to start, no
> error is given other than it just lands on a blank page. Here's the
> download function in my controller;
>
>  function download ($id = null) {
>    list($file_name, $file_ext) = split('[.]', $id);
>    $this->view = 'Media';
>      $params = array(
>        'id' => $file_name . '.' . $file_ext,
>        'name' => $file_name,
>        'download' => true,
>        'extension' => 'epub',
>        'path' => 'app' . DS . 'files' . DS,
>        'mimeType', array('epub' => 'application/epub+zip'
>      ));
>    $this->set($params);
>  }
>
> Like I say, no download (I tried with an without the 'app'.DS on the
> path) but if I send the headers like in this post then it works;
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php/browse_thread/thread/cf567fbb9beccfcb/b69133b6c7d70fa6?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=how+to+have+file+downloads#b69133b6c7d70fa6
>
> So, I replace $this->set($params) with;
>
>      if(!empty($id)){
>      $file = $params['path'] . $params['id'];
>      $data = file_get_contents($file);
>      $size = filesize($file);
>      if( isset($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) && strpos($_SERVER
> ['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'MSIE') ) {
>        header('Content-Type:application/force-download');
>      } else {
>        header('Content-Type:application/epub+zip');
>        header('Content-Length:' . $size);
>        header('Content-disposition:attachment;filename="' . $params
> ['id'] . '"');
>        echo $data;
>      }
>    } else {
>      $this->redirect();
>      exit();
>    }
>
> I guess that Media View was implemented so we don't have to send the
> headers ourselves - or am I am wrong?
>
> Does anyone have any ideas why the default Model View method is not
> working?
> >
>

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