Posted by Vertuas on 11/07/06 17:59

Thanks again guys

I found this code on php website

$f = fopen("file.txt", "rb");
$content_len = (int) filesize($f, "file.txt");
$content_file = fread($f, $content_len);
fclose($f);

$output_file = 'MXimage.jpg';

@ob_end_clean();
@ini_set('zlib.output_compression', 'Off');
header('Pragma: public');

header('Last-Modified: '.gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s') . ' GMT');
header('Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate'); // HTTP/1.1
header('Cache-Control: pre-check=0, post-check=0, max-age=0'); // HTTP/1.1
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: none');
header('Content-Type: application/octetstream; name="' . $output_file .
'"'); //This should work for IE & Opera
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="' . $output_file .
'"'); //This should work for the rest
header('Content-Disposition: inline; filename="' . $output_file . '"');
header("Content-length: $content_len");

echo $content_file;
exit()

the filename MXimage.jpg is my own test image file.

when i point IE at it, i get a message about a 3 byte HTML file. Why does
that image file not come through? It seams that the script doesn't even pass
the image data on.

is this something to do with the way PHP handeles the headers. Its running
on a Linux host.

Thanks again

"Vertuas" <vertuas@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:u%%3h.14794$163.13570@newsfe6-gui.ntli.net...
> Hi All,
>
> Is there a way to get PHP to change the mime type for a file sent to a
> browser.
>
> I need my website viewers to be able to click a link to directly download
> and save an image, rather than the browser displaying it.
>
> Is there some other way to make this happen?
>
> Thanks
>
> David
>

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