Hi, I have just started using PHP's file operators...and as you can guess need a little help
I am using the example from the online manual: http://de3.php.net/manual/en/function.readfile.php to read a file that is in a .htaccess protected folder and pop a download box to the client. Surprisingly, after screwing around with the example code for 2 mins I got it working on IE and NN. Opera have always had one problem...instead of outputting somefile.zip it saves it as myPHPfileName.php and this is what it passes on to Download Accelerator Plus (DAP) 1. I am sure I am not the only one who noticed this...so...how did you tackle it? 2. Which is better for large files (5-8mb), readfile or fpassthru or.....etc ? 3. and last question is, in this line: header( "Content-Description: File Transfert"); why do you have the "t" at the end of "Tranfer" ??? Thanks in advance. (Below is the code that I am using.) Cheers, -Ryan P.S, I know there are security issues when using readfile and fpassthru and will take some precautions later but for this example I left it open. * * * * Code * * * * <?php $the_filename="KeyMaker203.zip"; $filename=$the_filename; // the name the file will have on client computer $file_to_download="/home/public_html/testing/KeyMaker203.zip"; $user_agent = strtolower ($_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]); header( "Content-type: application/force-download" ); if ((is_integer (strpos($user_agent, "msie"))) && (is_integer (strpos($user_agent, "win")))) {header( "Content-Disposition: filename=".$filename); }else{header( "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".$filename); } header( "Content-Description: File Transfert"); @readfile($file_to_download); ?> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
