How to download to the browser multiple pictures in php

Question

I'm getting some pictures paths via a webservice this way :

 0 => string '/home/41/38/58/96/photos/1.jpg' 
 1 => string '/home/41/38/58/96/photos/2.jpg'
 2 => string '/home/41/38/58/96/photos/3.jpg'

I'm trying to download them to the browser via a PHP script :

foreach($files as $index => $files){
        if($index !== 'debug'){
            $file_name = basename($file);
            $final_file = @fopen($file,"rb");

            header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
            header("Pragma: public");
            header("Content-Type: image/jpeg");
            header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
            header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$file_name\"");
            header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');

            header('Content-Length: '.filesize($file));

            print(@fread($final_file, filesize($file)));
            ob_flush();
            flush();

            @fclose($final_file);
        }
    }

The problem is that i'm getting just one picture even if my array contains the three links like you see. So what i'm doing wrong.

If Javascript is available to you then you can look into [dynamically creating ``s which will initiate an individual download of each file](http://stackoverflow.com/a/9425731/2191572) — MonkeyZeus, Aug 22 '16 at 13:51

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:08

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you can send just one file.

You need to zip the files into one archive and then send that zip file to the browser.

there are some other solutions, but zipping should be good for most cases imho

edited May 23 '17 at 12:08

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answered Aug 22 '16 at 13:45

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How to download to the browser multiple pictures in php

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