Re: Force-Saving an Audio File

cool@hosting4days.com wrote: > > On Dec 9, 2009, at 12:27 AM, Gaurav Kumar wrote: > >> You can do two things- >> >> 1. Read the file by providing a base directory path of the server >> where the >> file exist. >> Something like- //htdocs/httpfolder/files/audio/yourfile.mp3 >> You can take this in a variable " //htdocs/httpfolder/files/audio/". >> >> 2. Try using file_get_contents. >> Something like $file = file_get_contents(' >> http://www.example.com/audio/file.mp3', false, >> $context); >> >> Hope this helps. > > Thanks for your help Gaurav, > > After a few tests based on your suggestions - I noticed why I think > there was a problem: > > this line: > elseif (! file_exists( $path ) ) > worked locally but failed when the path was a http url: > $directory = "http://mysite.com/test1/"; > > so when I took out that elseif then readfile("$path"); did work > > SO: Is there a php function that can work like file_exists( $path ) > and tell if the file exists but work from a URL like: > $thisfile = "http://mysite.com/test1/audio.mp3"; > > > > > Thanks, > cool@hosting4days.com > You could possibly check the results of get_headers($thisfile); -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com