it's not advisable to put the binary data in a session
variable.
any way you can try this instead.
<?php
header("Content-Type : application/pdf");
session_start();
$file = $_SESSION['resulta'];
header('Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="research.pdf"');
echo $file;
?>
--- Roderick Ramos� <roderick_ramos@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am able to upload .pdf and .doc files into the
> MySQL database (using Medium Blob) but I can't
> retrieve or download them back. Can you help me
> download them?
>
> What I did was the following pages (downloadpage.php
> and downloader.php):
>
>
> (1) downloadpage.php
> (trying to download pdf document with reference
> ID=143 from database)
>
> ....
>
> $result = mysql_query("SELECT fileContent FROM
> research WHERE referenceid=143") or die("MySQL Query
> Error:".mysql_error()."<br><br>"."The SQL was:
> $SQL<br><br>");
>
> $resulta = mysql_fetch_array($result)or
> die("error: in fetch name".mysql_error());
>
> $_SESSION['resulta'] = $resulta[0];
>
> mysql_close($link);
>
> ?>
>
>
> <a href="downloader.php">download
> articles</a>
>
> (2) downloader.php
> (process downloading)
>
> <?php
> header("Content-Type : application/pdf");
> session_start();
> $file = $_SESSION['resulta'];
> header('Content-Disposition: attachment;
> filename="research.pdf"');
> readfile($file);
> ?>
>
>
>
>
>
> Thank you very much!
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Ricky
>
>
>
>
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