How to return a file ?

Anon

I need to return a binary file from PHP script.
I tried to use readfile, but it doesn't work correctly, symbols CRLF are replaced with only LF.
I tried to read from file using fgetc but it has similar problems.

Can somebody help me ???

P.S. I'm using PHP for Win32

Anon

Read the file into a variable like you were doing previously but instead of:

echo $file_data;

try;

echo nl2br($file_data);

This will convert all newline's to HTML <BR>'s

Anon

That can help only with text information, but i've got binary data, to be exact - MP3 file.
So I can't use this function.

Anon

Could you explain more about why you want to return a binary file?? I think I've seen a PHP Script over there that read a binary file and send it to you so you can download it...

Bye

inKel

Anon

I was just having the same problem. I wanted my script to take the ID of an mp3 in my database and get the correct path, then send the mp3. There is a PHP function to send the content of the file to the browser:

ReadFile($filename);

It will return FALSE if it fails, otherwise it returns the amount it read from the file. The only other thing you have to worry about are the HTTP headers. Try something similar to:

Header("Content-type: binary");
Header("Content-Disposition: filename=\"$filename\";");

make sure it goes before the actual ReadFile() call though. The only problem Ive run into is if there is an error (like the file doesn't exist) then you would probly want to make an HTML page error, but the header is there and will send it as a binary file.

Anyway, I hope this helps.