note 52722 added to function.readfile

To use readfile() it is absolutely necessary to set the mime-type before. If you are using an Apache, it's quite simple to figure out the correct mime type. Apache has a file called "mime.types" which can (in normal case) be read by all users. Use this (or another) function to get a list of mime-types: <?php function mimeTypes($file) { if (!is_file($file) || !is_readable($file)) return false; $types = array(); $fp = fopen($file,"r"); while (false != ($line = fgets($fp,4096))) { if (!preg_match("/^\s*(?!#)\s*(\S+)\s+(?=\S)(.+)/",$line,$match)) continue; $tmp = preg_split("/\s/",trim($match[2])); foreach($tmp as $type) $types[strtolower($type)] = $match[1]; } fclose ($fp); return $types; } # [...] # read the mime-types $mimes = mimeTypes('/usr/local/apache/current/conf/mime.types'); # use them ($ext is the extension of your file) if (isset($mimes[$ext])) header("Content-Type: ".$mimes[$ext]); header("Content-Length: ".@filesize($fullpath)); readfile($fullpath); exit; ?> If you do not want to read from the mime.types file directly, you can of course make a copy in another folder! Cheers Philipp Heckel ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.readfile.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+52722 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+52722&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+52722&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+52722&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+52722&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+52722&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+52722&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php