File Managing

[thekidscareya]

if i have a word document that i want to download (NOT to open up in IE or the browser, but to download) how would i make a script that would download it from the root directory?

eg:

$file = "\home\word.doc";

current location is \home\joel\public_html\index.php

how would i make that download window popup asking to download word.doc from the server?

thanks.

[ScubaKing22]

header('Content-type: SOME_MIME_TYPE');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="FILE_NAME"');
readfile('FILE_PATH_ON_SERVER);

SOME_MIME_TYPE would be something like application/octet-stream (A list of some types can be found here towards the bottom)

FILE_NAME is...self explanatory

FILE_PATH_ON_SERVER is...hopefully self explanatory but is something like public_html/dir1/dir2/file.ext