Grega Leskovšek wrote: > I tried to download the file from another server the fancy way in PHP, but > it just display blank screen. Can You please look at my code: > > <?php > $filepath = "http://aaaaaa.yolasite.com/resources/happytears.doc"; > // $filepath = "http://users.skavt.net/~gleskovs/else/happytears.doc"; > if (file_exists($filepath)) { I see in the manual that file_exists can now check URLs, but my guess would be that it needs to have the allow_url_fopen statement in the php.ini set to "On". See > header("Content-Type: application/force-download"); > header("Content-Disposition:filename=\"happytears.doc\""); > $fd = fopen($filepath,'rb');//I tried also just 'r' and am not clear on > which documents should I add b for binary? As I understand only text plain > files and html files and php etc files are without 'b'. All documents, > presentations, mp3 files, video files should have also 'b' for binary along > r. Am I wrong? > fpassthru($fd); > fclose($fd); > } > ?> > Both filepaths are valid and accessible to the same document. I double > checked them. Please help me. Thanks in advance, Yours, Grega > See what you get with this <?php $filepath = "http://aaaaaa.yolasite.com/resources/happytears.doc"; if (file_exists($filepath)) { echo 'File found'; } else { echo 'File NOT found'; } ?> Jim -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php