Loading Document Outside Web Directory

[ccgorman]

Hello,

I am trying to load a document into a web page that exists outside the live directory. I have all my web sites loaded into vhtdocs, I want to create a new directory that is not accessible via a URL that will contain various documents (pdf, doc, xls). When a user selects a document it is to be loaded into a buffer and sent to them, I have this code so far, but the document always comes back empty, but if I move it to a live URL the document comes through fine. Any ideas on why this is?

[url]http://site_url/download.php?document=myfile.pdf[/url]

download.php code:

header("Content-disposition: filename=".$download);
header("Content-type: ".$stream);
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: 0");

$handle=fopen(FILE_PATH.$download, "r");
$contents="";
while (!feof($handle)) {
$contents.=fread($handle, 4096);
}
PRINT($contents);
fclose($handle);

[Mordecai]

Do you get any errors?

Also, you may wish to look up [man]readfile/man.

[tommynanda]

fpassthru() might work

header("Content-disposition: filename=".$download); 
header("Content-type: ".$stream); 
header("Pragma: no-cache"); 
header("Expires: 0"); 

$handle=fopen(FILE_PATH.$download, "r"); 
fpassthru($handle); 
fclose($handle);

there might be some problems with ur variables too

Good Luck
TommYNandA

[ccgorman]

readfile() worked a treat, thanks.

I also had some variables set wrong, I was referencing the directory and not the actual file.

Thanks again.