sending header?

Anon

I'm creating a script that fetches a file (.... not accessible using a web browser )
and my problem is :: how do i tell the browser that this data that i'll be sending is of type TYPE and the filename is FILENAME
i know its just a header() call but.. what is the parameter?

?Jun?

znouza

simply try

Header('Location: $filename'); eg. your requested filename will be stored in variable $filename, so just redirect to that name...

juneym

What i want to do is not to re-directo since
the file that I want to fetch is not within the DocumentRoot.

/main_dir
|public (document_root)
| files (the dir i want to read)

Its not possible to redirect a browser to a page not within the document root. right?
So, what i did was to write a script that reads the ./files directory for a certain file and echos any data ... it gets.. but before echoing, i have to send a header that tells the content-types, and filename..

I know already how to send a content-type

Header("Content-Type: $ctyle");

i want to know of any header that tells the browser that this data should be of this filename... so that it will not be saved with filename same as with the script.

Anon

hi i added a header at the end of my form after the query but it give me an error
Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by line 456...
in that line if($submit) .. starts..
what do i do? why am i getting the error.
Please help

Anon

The reason you're getting this error is that you've already output something to the browser, meaning PHP has already sent some headers. You can't send two sets of headers.