PHP program to download the text file from the specified URL

Program/Source Code:

The source code to download the text file from the specified URL is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

<?php
//PHP program to download the text file.
$download_url = 'http://www.includehelp.com/sample.txt';
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: utf-8");
header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename="" . basename($download_url) . """);
readfile($download_url);
?>

Explanation:

Here, we created a variable $download_url that contains the file URL that will be downloaded. After that, we prepared the header and call readfile() to download the file.