[don57]

Trying to replace file name with string in forced download, but get string for file name instead of contents of string

$file_dl="Event Log Cleaner.exe";

header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename=$file_dl');
header('Content-type: application/exe');
readfile('../downloads/$file_dl');

[no2pencil]

Single quotes do not evaluate variables. Try either of the following :

readfile('../downloads/'.$file_dl);
readfile("../downloads/$file_dl");

Or you could create the full string first & then pass it :

$file = '../downloads/'.$file_dl;
readfile($file);

[don57]

Thank you