If you use a text editor to look at your PDF, you will see this on the first line: id is 45%PDF-1.4^[34m^M%âãÏÓ^[34m^M The debug output "id is 45" is not going to make any PDF reader/viewer happy, in a big way. I dunno what else might be wrong, but that's gotta get fixed first and foremost. On Sun, April 30, 2006 10:31 am, Ross wrote: > On this page > http://www.nationalservicesscotland.com/publications/a-z.php > > I use the following code to donwload binary data. It is jsut > gibberish. I > think the offending line is echo "<a class=\"pdflinks\" > href=\"$link\"</a>$name</span>"; > > How do I recompile the binaryy data into docs and pdfs? > > > <? > $letter="a"; > $query= "SELECT * FROM publications WHERE alphabet='$letter'"; > > $result= mysql_query($query); > while ($row = @mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)){ > > $row['pdf_size'] = $row['pdf_size']/ 1024; > $row['pdf_size']= number_format($row['pdf_size'], 0); > $size= $row['pdf_size']; > $name = str_replace("_", " ", $row['pdf_name']); > $name = str_replace(".pdf", "", $name); > $link= $row['content']; > > echo "<a class=\"pdflinks\" href=\"$link\"</a>$name</span>"; > echo " "; > echo "<span class=\"sizes\">($size kb)</span>"; > ?><a href="a-z.php?id=<?=$row['id'];?>">link</a> <br> > > > <? > } > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
