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tylerhall on 07/05/06


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Serve external document for download

Published in: PHP 

This lets you serve up a file for download without revealing the actual URL of the file. Useful for protected downloads or dynamic content coming from a database. The first header() line isn't always needed. It's just there to help Acrobat on Windows behave properly. If you're not returning PDFs, you can (usually) safely remove it.

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  1. function download_document($filename, $path = "", $mimetype = "application/octet-stream")
  2. {
  3. 	header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
  4. 	header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename = $filename");
  5. 	header("Content-Length: " . filesize($pathto . $filename));
  6. 	header("Content-Type: $mimetype");
  7. 	echo file_get_contents($pathto . $filename);
  8. }

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