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Posted by Mateusz Markowski on 11/02/06 08:55
David napisal(a):
> Is there a way to download a file from a directory not in the server's
> path? Eg. not under public_html? This would be for security so that
> the files can never be directly access vial the web.
>
> I did a search on PHP + download but this garnered many unless web
> sites.
>
Yes, there is. You can use header() with readfile(), for instance:
//file to send
$file = '/etc/passwd';
//headers to tell browser that we want to send file
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
//reads file and sends it to client
@readfile($file);
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