Text file downloaded through browser is without linebreaks

Asked Dec 25 '16 at 07:41

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I created and saved a text file(containing simple text) in windows then uploaded it to the unix server, apache/mysql/php and then created a download page with the following code

$path = 'myfile.txt';
header ( "Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header ( "Content-Length: " . filesize ( $path ) );
header ( 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=' . $path );

readfile($path);

But when I download it by visiting the download page and open the text file in notepad it shows with out the line breaks.

What can I do to solve it ?

asked Dec 25 '16 at 07:41

StudentX

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What were the line breaks? I would think it would need the end of line character sequence- \n – AshMenhennett Dec 25 '16 at 07:56
@AshMenhennett That didn't work, the text file simply shows the \n after the line – StudentX Dec 25 '16 at 08:10
Ok, can you change the ```content-type``` to ```text/plain```. Here is some more info on \n: http://stackoverflow.com/a/15433225/6186967 – AshMenhennett Dec 25 '16 at 08:15
@AshMenhennett none of those worked, probably because the text file in not created dynamically ? – StudentX Dec 25 '16 at 08:20
Hmmm.. can you set the encoding to ```UTF-8``` aswell as the the earlier suggestions? – AshMenhennett Dec 25 '16 at 08:21
@AshMenhennett nope. nothing. – StudentX Dec 25 '16 at 08:24
Do you think setting the content type to ```text/html``` and using html line breaks in the file would work? – AshMenhennett Dec 25 '16 at 08:28
@AshMenhennett That too didn't work :( – StudentX Dec 25 '16 at 08:31
What client OS are you opening the file in, once downloaded? – AshMenhennett Dec 25 '16 at 08:32
@AshMenhennett Windows. – StudentX Dec 25 '16 at 08:33
```\r\n``` is the sequence for new line on windows. That should also work for UNIX based systems as well. – AshMenhennett Dec 25 '16 at 08:35
Technically it should, but somehow it isn't. I am thinking to change the format to pdf instead, this is taking to much tome :/ – StudentX Dec 25 '16 at 08:36
Welp, you can always firgure it out another day, for now, PDF sounds good :) – AshMenhennett Dec 25 '16 at 08:37

Text file downloaded through browser is without linebreaks

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