Re: [PHP] storing files in database and retriving them

[email protected] (Peter Lind)
Newsgroups php.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
2010/7/27 Nilesh Govindarajan <[email protected]>:
> 2010/7/27 Dušan Novaković <[email protected]>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> so when I'm sending the array to model it's like this:
>>
>> $fp = fopen(INVOICE_PATH.date('Y-m-d').DS.$pdfName, "r");
>> $pdfContent             = array(
>>                                        'file'  =>      base64_encode(fread($fp,
>> filesize(INVOICE_PATH.date('Y-m-d').DS.$pdfName))),
>>                                        'name'  =>      $pdfName,
>>                                        'size'  =>      filesize(INVOICE_PATH.date('Y-m-d').DS.$pdfName),
>>                                        'type'  =>      mime_content_type(INVOICE_PATH.date('Y-m-d').DS.$pdfName)
>>                                        );
>> fclose($fp);
>>
>> so the data in db are ok, and this type is application/pdf.
>>
>> And when I'm getting data, I get the array like this:
>>
>> $file = Array
>> (
>>    [id] => 2
>>    [file] =>VBERi0xLjM... <= here file is base64_encode()
>>    [file_size] => 2204
>>    [file_type] => application/pdf
>>    [file_name] => 2_file.pdf
>> )
>>
>> Headers:
>>
>> header("Content-length: ".$file['file_size']);
>> header("Content-type: ".$file['file_type']);
>> header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename= ".$file['file_name']);
>> echo base64_decode($file['file']);
>>
>>
>> So, mime looks ok, but still... not working :-(
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>
> Are you sure that you need Content-Disposition? Try removing that. I
> think that's used only in emails (Correct me if I'm wrong).

You're wrong. Content-Disposition tells the browser how to handle the
content - in this case, the browser will download the file instead of
displaying it.

Regards
Peter

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