>Is it possible to send a file to a browser?
>I would like to allow people to download a file, but I don't want to give
away the path to >the file, so a normal link wouldn't work.
>I am hoping there is a way to use php to send the file using code, rather
than trying to >first copy the file to a temp dir then give them the link,
then worry about deleting the temp >dir again.
<A
HREF=yoursite.com/download.php/whatever.doc?filename=whatever.doc>whatever.d
oc</A>
(Yes, that extra whatever.doc in the URL is on purpose. Microsoft sucks.)
<?php
#download.php:
#This header forces a download:
header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
#This header convinces some browsers to prompt with whatever.doc instead
of download.php:
header("Content-disposition: $filename");
#There are about 6 more headers to convince other browser versions of
the same...
#Look in the code archives for them.
passthru("/secret/path/not/in/your/website/$filename);
?>
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