Returning a file to browser via php

[SLOGIC]

Hello all.

I need to be able to "send, or stream" a file to the client browser
using PHP code. This is the scenario.


The user clicks a link on a page (after logging in to the site). I
need to have my PHP code return a document -a Word document file, let's
say - to the browser for display. However, the document is not in the
public WWW folder. For security reasons, it is on another drive on the
same machine.
I need to have the php code return the file to the browser so that I
can wrap security code around this process.

Thanks in advance, any insight is greatly appreciated !

[Peter Albertsson]

Re: Returning a file to browser via php

<?php
header('Content-Type: application/msword');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=filena me.doc');
readfile('/not/in/web/root/word.doc');
?>

Best regards,

Peter Albertsson

"SLOGIC" <wholesale@bi z-spot.com> wrote in message
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> Hello all.
>
> I need to be able to "send, or stream" a file to the client browser
> using PHP code. This is the scenario.
>
>
> The user clicks a link on a page (after logging in to the site). I
> need to have my PHP code return a document -a Word document file, let's
> say - to the browser for display. However, the document is not in the
> public WWW folder. For security reasons, it is on another drive on the
> same machine.
> I need to have the php code return the file to the browser so that I
> can wrap security code around this process.
>
> Thanks in advance, any insight is greatly appreciated !
>[/color]

[Bosconian]

Re: Returning a file to browser via php

"SLOGIC" <wholesale@bi z-spot.com> wrote in message
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> Hello all.
>
> I need to be able to "send, or stream" a file to the client browser
> using PHP code. This is the scenario.
>
>
> The user clicks a link on a page (after logging in to the site). I
> need to have my PHP code return a document -a Word document file, let's
> say - to the browser for display. However, the document is not in the
> public WWW folder. For security reasons, it is on another drive on the
> same machine.
> I need to have the php code return the file to the browser so that I
> can wrap security code around this process.
>
> Thanks in advance, any insight is greatly appreciated !
>[/color]

You might be making this more complicated than it needs to be.

You already have the physical files stored outside the web server root.
Authenticate the user and give them a link to download the file.