AW: [PHP] downloading files

as far as i know : this won't work if you run PHP in safemode :-[ > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams [mailto:ignacio@openservices.net] > Gesendet am: Montag, 11. Dezember 2000 18:12 > An: Deepak Chawla > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net > Betreff: Re: [PHP] downloading files > > On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Deepak Chawla wrote: > > > Hi! > > is there a way in which i can allow users to download files > from my site > > without letting them know the location on the file on my > server ?? i'm > > using html+javascript on the client side and php on the server side. > > > > thanks > > > > -deepak > > > > Just use a database or array to hold a map, e.g.: > > file1.txt => (/docs/text/file1, text/plain) > file2.pdf => (/docs/file2.pdf, application/x-pdf) > ... > > Then use header() to set the content type and readfile() to > dump the file > passed as a GET parameter (e.g., > http://www.example.com/file.php3?file=file1.txt). > > -- > Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio@openservices.net> > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > php-list-admin@lists.php.net >