Someone please help me on this...I want to make a user download music from my server...however this script displays gibberish stuff on the browser...how do i make it download? Ignore the header warnings... <?php //ob_start(); //session_start(); $filepath="./cool/scripts/files/music/01.mp3"; $file_extension = strtolower(substr(strrchr($filepath,"."),1)); echo $file_extension; $filename = realpath($filepath); $file = @fopen($filename,"rb"); echo $filename; switch ($file_extension) { case "pdf": $ctype="application/pdf"; break; case "exe": $ctype="application/octet-stream"; break; case "zip": $ctype="application/zip"; break; case "rar": $ctype="application/x-rar-compressed"; break; case "doc": $ctype="application/msword"; break; case "xls": $ctype="application/vnd.ms-excel"; break; case "ppt": $ctype="application/vnd.ms-powerpoint"; break; case "gif": $ctype="image/gif"; break; case "png": $ctype="image/png"; break; case "jpe": case "jpeg": case "jpg": $ctype="image/jpg"; break; case 'mp3': $ctype='audio/mpeg'; break; case 'mpg': $ctype='video/mpeg'; break; case 'avi': $ctype='video/x-msvideo'; break; default: $ctype='application/force-download'; } // set headers header("Pragma: public"); header("Expires: 0"); header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0"); header("Cache-Control: private",false); header("Content-Type: $ctype"); header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$filepath. "\";"); header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary"); header("Content-Length: ".@filesize($filename)); set_time_limit(0); @readfile("$filename") or die("File not found."); /* while(!feof($file)) { print(fread($file, 1024*8)); flush(); if (connection_status()!=0) { @fclose($file); die(); } } @fclose($file); */ // @readfile("$filename") or die("File not found."); // print getenv("SCRIPT_NAME"); ?>