[RESOLVED] Private PHP file uploads

[thepeccavi]

Hi!

I've been using MySQL BLOBs to store files privately (ie. you can't just find out the url), but this seems to break some files (word!!), so I've decided to upload them to a non-HTTP folder (ie. accessible only by PHP). I can upload them there easily enough, but how do I access them through PHP? I know this is possible because it is an option in Drupal, but can anyone point me in the right direction of how to do it?

Thanks!!

Isaac

[thepeccavi]

Sorted it:

The files are saved outside the htdocs directory, but then my PHP script sets the headers content-type and content-disposition using the header() function and then echos the fread() contents of the file.

And it works!! I think I can't have set up my MySQL table right, because the BLOB was corrupting the data, but this method is much easier because I can look through files in FTP and download them if I want.

Isaac