Re: Displaying files

On Aug 14, 2008, at 3:29 PM, Dan Shirah wrote:

You need to know the mime type for the file you're serving. Call

header('Content-Type: x/y'); where x/y is the mime type. Then call readfile('/path/to/file/on/server'); to output the file to the browser. -Stut

Stut, trying that method gives me the following: PHP Warning: readfile( \\server\folder\file.xls) [<a href='function.readfile'>function.readfile</a>]: failed to open stream: Invalid argument on line 44 Here's my code. Line 44 is where it stated readfile() This document is located on a seperate server. <?php $folder = $_GET['folder']; $file = $_GET['file']; $filename = "\\\\server\\".$folder."\\".$file.".xls"; header("Content-Type: application/x-msdownload"); readfile($filename); ?>

This won't address the permissions issue, but I ran into a similar problem where IE wouldn't open the file unless 'exit;' was present. You may want to add: <?php readfile($filename); exit; ?> Cheers, ~Philip