benc11@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > I need to take a word document or pdf file from either a MySQL db or > from a > directory, which will then be sent via php script. How can I go about > doing > this? Can anyone provide sample code or point me in the right direction. > Brian Dunning started a thread about nine minutes before you on sending a file to the browser. "Serving out a file to Firefox ... headers?" That's pretty much all you need to do to read from a file (adding in whatever fixes the problem he is experiencing with FireFox of course.) If you wanted to store the data in a MySQL database it would be the same procedure, except you would query the database (BLOB column type) and echo that data instead of using readfile() to get your data. Travis -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
