RE: [PHP] Problems downloading a PDF

> -----Original Message----- > From: Mário Gamito [mailto:mgamito@telbit.pt] > Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 1:46 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Problems downloading a PDF > > Hi, > > I'm building this site that has several PDFs to download, but only to > registered users. > > To prevent people to insert the full URL to the documents, i moved them > outside Apache's DocumentRooot, which is /var/www. > > My site is in /var/www/telbit and i put the PDFs in /var/www > > I've coded in order to do the trick, but it's failing. > I can't get the name of the file. > Notice that the page which has the code is products-teststudio.php itself. > > The code follows my signature. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Warm Regards > -- > :wq! Mário Gamito > -- > > <?php > if (isset($_SESSION['email'])) { > echo"<a href=\"products-teststudio.php?file=testudio.pdf\" > rel=\"external\">Download TESTUDIO flyer</a>"; > > $file = $_GET['file']; > > // try to sanitize the filename > if (preg_match('/[^A-Za-z0-9._]/', $file)) > die("Invalid filename."); > > $path = '/var/www/'; > $full = $path . $file; > > header('Content-type: application/pdf'); > header("Content-Length: " . filesize($full)); > header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename="'. basename($file) > .'"'); > readfile($full); > } > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php [Peter Lauri - DWS Asia] You are echoing stuff before sending the file that is not possible. So remove the echo and it should work. If not, try this for debugging: if(!is_readable($full)) echo "the file $full is not readable by apache"; else { //same as before } Best regards, Peter Lauri www.dwsasia.com - company web site www.lauri.se - personal web site www.carbonfree.org.uk - become Carbon Free