Re: Displaying a file

On that note, how would i load an image from outside the document root? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin French" <justin@indent.com.au> To: "Todd Cary" <todd@aristesoftware.com>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 4:06 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Displaying a file > Change your link to something like: > > <a href="view.php?file=raceschedule.pdf" ...>...</a> > > view.php will NOT be a "HTML page" -- it will be responsible for: > > a) some conditional stuff, like checking for a logged in user > b) output an appropriate header for the file type > c) pass through the actual file contents > > > You would actually want to store the target files outside the doc root, or > forbid apache to serve them directly over http. > > There's a decent article here: > http://www.zend.com/zend/trick/tricks-august-2001.php > > > Justin French > > > > on 10/03/03 1:17 PM, Todd Cary (todd@aristesoftware.com) wrote: > > > I want to display a file under program control in the same manner as one > > would with using an >a> tag e.g. > > > > Click <a href="files/raceschedule.pdf" Name="Race Schedule" > > Target="_blank">here</a> to open the Race Schedule > > > > In other words, if certain conditions are met, then I want to display > > the file. What is the best way to do that? > > > > Many thanks..... > > > > Todd > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >