Re: PHP/Mysql: Making binary field available for download - extra browser window ?
| From: | Richard Lynch | Date: | Mon, 05 Jun 2006 18:08:47 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP/Mysql: Making binary field available for download - extra browser window ? | ||
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On Fri, June 2, 2006 12:59 am, Matthew Pegg wrote:
> Working on a PHP script at the moment where I want to be able to
> extract a file (PDF file) from a mysql database\
That's bad. Read the archives.
> and force the popup
> of the File Download dialog, to allow the user to either save or open
> the document (ie. and bypass loading the file using the browser's
> plugin)
<?php
header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
echo $pdf;
?>
Any browser that does't do a download prompt for that is severely broken.
Forget the content-disposition crap.
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