Re: [PHP] helping people...
Subject: Re: [PHP] helping people... No that wasnt a ddos threat you idiot, i dont play them games. And when you keep sending spam is when it starts to piss people off. Rob W: Seriously mate, you are way... way outa line here. I've only used this list once and all I can say is...thank god people in general want to go out of their way to help others out. That's how lists like this get started and how lists like these foster and grow and I'd like to thank the people who pointed ME in the right direction..and hopefully I can at some point return the favour. I read back through your posts, and all I could think was - here's some dimwit undergrad with a PHP assignment due in on Monday, who hasn't done anything to help himself because THE INTERNET is just, like, you know - right there !! This may or may not be you, but certainly that's the impression I got. Do the participants on this list a favour - when you do finally hand that puppy in a coupla days late - let the list know what mark they got and what percentage of the overall mark it counted for... (PS. I have some old C exam and prac tests on floppies that you can have for 20 bucks..and a paper on Mosaic and the World Wide Web circa 1993 that I'd be happy to throw in for free.. oh... and a copy of Bill Gates - The Road Ahead... you can have that too... I'm not using it anymore ;-) cheers, Matt. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] PHP/Mysql: Making binary field available for download - extra browser window ?
Hi all, Working on a PHP script at the moment where I want to be able to extract a file (PDF file) from a mysql database and force the popup of the File Download dialog, to allow the user to either save or open the document (ie. and bypass loading the file using the browser's plugin) I've found solutions on the net for doing this with a file using readfile() but if I can get away with it, I don't want to create temporary files... Here's what I've got so far (truncated...): ? .. // db query string extract the PDF file $result = mysql_query(select file_data from brochure where id=1,$connection); $row= mysql_fetch_array($result); $lengths = mysql_fetch_lengths($result); // Grab the file contents as returned from the db $pdf_brochure = $row[file_data]; // setup headers to force download of $pdf_brochure into crap.pdf header(Pragma: public); header(Expires: 0); header(Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0); header(Cache-Control: private,false); // required for certain browsers header(Content-Type: application/force-download); header(Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\crap.pdf\; ); header(Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary); header(Content-Length: . $lengths[0]); // send the file to stdout print $pdf_brochure;// problem might be here exit(); ? This almost works but the problem is that this code still spawns a new empty browser window, and I don't know how to prevent this Can anyone help ? regards, Matt. -- ___ Matt Pegg IT Specialist Abacus Business Machines Ballarat, Australia. ___
