Re: download not working

are people supposed to smell what is not working? do you get any errors? is it possible the PDF was corrupt when you uploaded it? Ross wrote:

working form this example http://www.php-mysql-tutorial.com/php-mysql-upload.php my code is as follows, all I get is a corrupt pdf file..... $query= "SELECT * FROM publications WHERE alphabet='a'"; $result= mysql_query($query); while ($row = @mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)){

    $row['pdf_size'] = $row['pdf_size']/ 1024;

$row['pdf_size']= number_format($row['pdf_size'], 0); $size= $row['pdf_size']; $name = str_replace("_", " ", $row['pdf_name']); $name = str_replace(".pdf", "", $name); $link= $row['content']; echo "<span class=\"pdflinks\">$name</span>"; echo "&nbsp;&nbsp;"; echo "<span class=\"sizes\">($size kb)</span>"; //<a href="#">ross</a> ?> download is here...... <a href="a-z.php?id=<?=$row['id'];?>">link</a> <br> <? if(isset($_GET['id'])) { echo "id is this";

$id    = $_GET['id'];

$query = "SELECT * FROM publications WHERE id = '$id'"; $result = mysql_query($query) or die('Error, query failed'); $pdf_size=$row['pdf_size']; $pdf_type=$row['pdf_type']; $pdf_name=$row['pdf_name']; ob_clean(); header("Content-length: $pdf_size"); header("Content-type: $pdf_type"); header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$pdf_name"); echo $content; exit; } }