Retrieving a PDF file from a MySQL database

Hello, I'm having trouble with getting a PHP script to pull a file (a PDF file) out of a MySQL database. I don't know if the problem is the insertion or the retrieval, but I'll try to paste as much code as I can to hopefully reveal to someone more skilled in PHP than I what the problem is. The following is part of the code that inserts the file into the database: $file = addslashes(fread(fopen($path . $filename, "r"), filesize($path .. $filename))); $filesize = filesize($path . $filename); $addquery = "INSERT INTO table (name, idnumber, file, filesize) VALUES ('$name', '$idnumber','$file', '$filesize')"; mysql_db_query($db, $addquery, $mysqlsock); And then the page that is supposed to retrieve the file and display it again: if ($id) { mysql_pconnect("localhost", $username, $password); mysql_select_db($db); $query = "SELECT file, filesize FROM table WHERE idnumber = $id"; $result = mysql_query($query); $data = mysql_result($result, 0, "file"); $size = mysql_result($result, 0, "filesize"); header("Accept-Ranges: bytes"); header("Content-type: application/pdf"); header("Content-length: $size"); echo $data; } What happens is that loading the page with the above code launches Acrobat Reader, but nothing displays on the screen. If I go into Reader and set it not to be browser integrated, loading the above page displays the open/save dialog. Choose to open launches Acrobat Reader and then it displays a message saying "Unable to open the document, a file read error has occurred". The "file" datatype in the table is MEDIUMBLOB and the filesize data seems to be accurate. Could someone please offer any assistance? Thanks, James Willard james@whispering.org