monkeytooth Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 The other day I noticed someone had post something like this, well this was actually the solution to the problem. But it got me thinking about a project of mine that I am working on and the need to pump out a downloadable file. We are storing most of the files in a database using base64 encoding the 2 key types of files we are storing are images and PDF's mostly pdf's anyway where I am wanting to go with this is, is there anyway to take the base64 encoded file and get it to download through this, or am I tackling the idea in the wrong way? <?php $filename = 'somename.txt'; //this would obviously be changed according to the file type we would output $data =<<<DATA I know my data would go here for the given file once decoded. DATA; header('Content-Description: File Transfer'); header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream'); header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=' . $filename); header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary'); header('Expires: 0'); header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0'); header('Pragma: public'); header('Content-Length: ' . strlen($data)); echo $data; ?> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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