Re: Protecting files in PHP
| From: | J Smith | Date: | Tue, 01 Oct 2002 18:53:40 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Protecting files in PHP | ||
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stas@newdel.net wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have some files off of the web root which I'd like to be able to serve
> up to users (*.doc, *.xls). I know I can do this with header(), but how do
> I reference a file that's outside of the webroot? Thanks!
Try using filesystem links or the PHP function readfile().
J