Re: MIME Downloads

From: Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:04:01 +0000
Subject: Re: MIME Downloads
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In article <001301c30ec3$3ca2a710$4500a8c0@theplague>, jtx@hatesville.com says... > Trying to allow users to download database queries in various formats, > such as pdf, excel, and csv. I have all the script created that take > the query results and format the data for each of the formats, but the > problem I'm having now is actually delivering the file when people want > to download it. There is no physical file on the server they are > downloading. The file is basically just stored in a variable. > > So, say I have the variable $results, which contains an encoded PDF > file, and I want the person to download it... I'm assuming it would be > something like > > header('Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate'); > header('Pragma: no-cache'); > header("Content-type: application/pdf"); > > After this though, I'm stuck. How to I finish this part off here? Every > example I've seen so far assumes the file exists on the server. Thanks! Have you tried echo $var; -- Quod subigo farinam

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