Re: downloading files

I have been using the following code to try to make it work: <?php $file = /home/site/member/filename.xxx"; header("Content-Description: File Transfer"); header("Content-Type: application/force-download"); header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".basename($file)); readfile($file); ?> The webroot of my site is at: /var/www/html So far this will create a new file on my computer where ever I want, but it does not download the contents of the file. Any suggestions? Thanks, Aaron "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@fcc.ro> wrote in message news:003d01c48616$a5133b40$142afea9@microsoft.com... > You can put the files that need to be downloaded in a directory somewhere > outside of the web server root, but in that case your PHP program will > need > to read the file and print it to the browser, and it will also need > printing > the HTTP headers: > > Content-type: application/octet-stream > Content-disposition: attachment; file=$filename > Content-length: xxx > [blank line] > > Or you can put the files somewhere on the web server tree, protect the > directory with .htaccess (username + password), and just put a simple link > to those files. > When someone will click that link, it will be asked for a username and > password in a popup window that the browser will open. > > If you don't want to appear that window, you can set your server to > redirect > the user to a php script, for a certain Status code that is generated when > authorization is required, and that PHP script can ask nice for a username > and password that can be used then by the script to allow access to that > file (but this way might be more complicated without real benefits). > > Teddy > > Teddy > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Aaron Todd" <aaloki88@hotmail.com> > To: <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 8:30 PM > Subject: [PHP] downloading files > > >> I posted a simular question before and never really got an answer. The > post >> drifted off into some other valuable information, but I still have the > same >> question. >> >> I am trying to create a site with file downloads. The files on the >> server >> that are to be downloaded need to be protected somehow. I have already >> created a login page for the site so users must log in. The download > files >> are in a directory protected by htaccess which it is my understanding >> that >> PHP can go underneath htaccess to get access to the files. My problem is >> where do I put this directory? I was already told to put it outside the > web >> root directory, but I really dont know where the best place is.