Re: combining headers with includes

From: Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 20:47:43 +0000
Subject: Re: combining headers with includes
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> I'm trying to force the browser to download a movie rather than open it up > and play it. Yesterday, Miguel kindly put me onto headers as being the way > to do this. Problem is I have an include at the top of the page and that > won't let me add in the necessary headers. The PHP manual says to use > buffering as the way around this: ob_start(); and ob_end_clean(); > RTFM with more care: ob_end_clean() does not send, but discards the contents of the buffer. You need to use ob_flush() / ob_end_flush() to send the contents of the buffer to the requesting client. > Should these buffer commands go around the include statement? When I do that > the page doesn't load at all, so I'm guessing that there must be another > way, but what that way is I have no idea. Does anyone??? Once you use the right ob_*() function, I think you'll notice a dramatic improvement in your output :-) Regards, Mahmoud

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