Re: [PHP] File downloading?

[Christian Reiniger]

On Wednesday 28 February 2001 01:06, you wrote:
  Great, thanks.
  I looked at the file(), but it sounded like is was just for
  local file use.

 oops, should've been include(). Sorry :)

include () is surely wrong for that. fpassthru (as someone else 
mentioned), file() and (my personal favourite) readfile() are the 
functions of choice

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RE: [PHP] File downloading?

[Jason Murray]

 Is it possible to send a file to a browser?

Sure. 

file();

 I would like to allow people to download a file, but I don't 
 want to give away the path to the file, so a normal link 
 wouldn't work.

In that case:

Header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
file("whatyouwanttosend");

 ( I am not sure if my first email went through, I got an 
 error back about the mailbox being full)

I didn't see it ...

Jason

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Re: [PHP] File downloading?

[Chris]

Great, thanks.
I looked at the file(), but it sounded like is was just for local file use.


  Is it possible to send a file to a browser?
 
 Sure. 
 
 file();
 
  I would like to allow people to download a file, but I don't 
  want to give away the path to the file, so a normal link 
  wouldn't work.
 
 In that case:
 
 Header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
 file("whatyouwanttosend");
 
  ( I am not sure if my first email went through, I got an 
  error back about the mailbox being full)
 
 I didn't see it ...
 
 Jason
 
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RE: [PHP] File downloading?

[Jason Murray]

 Great, thanks.
 I looked at the file(), but it sounded like is was just for 
 local file use.

oops, should've been include(). Sorry :)

Jason

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Re: [PHP] File downloading?

[Chris Lee]

?php

  header("Content-Type: application/download ");
  header("Content-Disposition: filename=filename.txt ");
 readfile('/path/to/file.zip');

?

try this, works for me.

everywhere I read they say Im supposed to use application/octlet-stream but
it doesnt allways seem to work in some browsers.

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Hi,
Is it possible to send a file to a browser?
I would like to allow people to download a file, but I don't want to give
away the path to the file, so a normal link wouldn't work.
I am hoping there is a way to use php to send the file using code, rather
than trying to first copy the file to a temp dir then give them the link,
then worry about deleting the temp dir again.

( I am not sure if my first email went through, I got an error back about
the mailbox being full)

Thanks,
Chris






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