I have a page where the user clicks a link to download a file, but the file is out side of the root DIR.
passing certain variables in the link, (type, file_name) I call the correct file...
However, it's stopped working?
My code below shows how I select the correct mime info to pass to the header.. but I keep getting promted to download an HTML file all the time...
if ($type == 'pdf') {$mimeinfo = "application/pdf";} else
if ($type == 'doc') {$mimeinfo = "application/msword";} else
if ($type == 'exe') {$mimeinfo = "application/octet-stream";} else
if ($type == 'ppt') {$mimeinfo = "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint";} else
if ($type == 'xls') {$mimeinfo = "application/vnd.ms-excel";} else
if ($type == 'xml') {$mimeinfo = "text/xml";} else
if ($type == 'zip') {$mimeinfo = "application/zip";}
Don't know if this is the problem, but I would code this differently...
if ($type == 'pdf') {
$mimeinfo = "application/pdf";
} elseif ($type == 'doc') {
$mimeinfo = "application/msword";
} elseif ($type == 'exe') {
$mimeinfo = "application/octet-stream";
} elseif ($type == 'ppt') {
$mimeinfo = "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint";
} elseif ($type == 'xls') {
$mimeinfo = "application/vnd.ms-excel";
} elseif ($type == 'xml') {
$mimeinfo = "text/xml";
} elseif ($type == 'zip') {
$mimeinfo = "application/zip";
}But that's only if I had to use if/else....personally, I'd put all that in a switch statement.
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$file");
header("Content-Length: " . filesize($path));
header("Content-Type: $mimeinfo");
And here, again, don't know if it's the problem, but...I'd move the variable outside of the quotes....
header("Content-Type: " . $mimeinfo);
Just personal preference I guess....YRMV.
readfile("$path");
My problem page is:
http://www.risk.sungard.com/download/?id=12617
click in the link 'Settlements >>' and you'll see what I mean, it says it's a pdf, but when you have to specify the download location, it saves simply the html page?
can anyone spot my probably stupid error?
Tris...
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