note 25084 deleted from function.fpassthru by vincent

Note Submitter: ---- Don't mix this function with passthru() which executes an external command and pipes its output to the standard output, like the backtick, except that the result is not returned in a string. fpassthru() is generally not restricted in safe_mode (provided that you have access to the referenced file), and it is great for example when a script must return an image from a collection. Note however that before using fpassthru() to return an image or binary file or downloaded file, you should explicitly set its content-type to something else than the default text/html. And don't forget to use "exit;" to avoid adding garbage characters or newlines after the passed through file (for example superfluous CRLF that may be present at end of your present script after the ?> tag). For example: <?php $name = "foobar.gif"; header("Content-Type: image/gif"); header("Content-Length: ".filesize($name)); fpassthru($name); exit; ?>