Posted by Good Man on 01/11/08 19:12

firewoodtim@yahoo.com wrote in news:1pbfo3dbejpknghjlf35okvtppvk7g9j7b@
4ax.com:

> Good Man,
> Thanks for the info, but I'm still a bit confused.
> What is the html that needs to be generated to enable launching the
> file in a target="_blank" window, and how do I get the data into it?
>
> If the file had been under webroot, I could have just referenced the
> file directly, as:
> <a href="?images/MyFile.pdf" target="_blank">MyFile.pdf</a>
>
> Now I have to put an "echo $buffer" in that new window somehow. Can I
> do it with the anchor, or do I need to write some javascript to call a
> new window, or is there some other method that will be better?
>

Presumably you could just do

<a href="streamFile.php?fileID=xxxxx" target="_blank">MyFile.pdf</a>


.... where streamFile.php first checks the fileID against a database,
determines its name and location on the server, and does it's thang.

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