README

About

The FileServeBundle allows you to serve files that are not publicly available, such as private attachments.

Installation

Add the bundle to your composer.json:

{
 "require": {
 "igorw/file-serve-bundle": "~1.0"
 }
}

Add the FileServeBundle to your application's kernel:

public function registerBundles()
{
 $bundles = array(
 // ...
 new Igorw\FileServeBundle\IgorwFileServeBundle(),
 // ...
 );
 // ...
}

Usage

Use the igorw_file_serve.response_factory service to create a FileServe response. The path is relative to the app directory by default.

$response = $this->get('igorw_file_serve.response_factory')->create('../VERSION', 'text/plain');

You can also pass a set of options as the third parameter of the create method.

$options = array(
 'serve_filename' => 'VERSION.txt',
 'absolute_path' => true,
 'inline' => false,
);

$response = $this->get('igorw_file_serve.response_factory')
 ->create('../VERSION', 'text/plain', $options);

• serve_filename: Filename the browser downloads the file as.
• absolute_path: If enabled, the bundle will ignore the base_dir option and use the provided filename as an absolute path.

You can configure the factory used, for example to use a nginx XSendfile response factory:

igorw_file_serve:
 factory: sendfile # The default value is "php"

You can also configure the base directory:

igorw_file_serve:
 base_dir: /files/dir # The default value is "%kernel.root_dir%"

By default, this bundle does a file_exists check when creating a response object. Recent nginx versions require relative paths, in which case the paths inside of PHP are not actual physical paths. Use the skip_file_exists setting to disable the check.

igorw_file_serve:
 skip_file_exists: true # The default value is false

Supported factories

• php
• sendfile (nginx)
• xsendfile (apache)

Features

• Incremental serving of large files
• Nginx XSendfile
• Apache mod_xsendfile

Todo

• Tests
• HTTP caching
• HTTP range requests
• Lighttpd XSendfile
• Handle PhpResponse getContent(), setContent()