I tried purposely corrupting the file by adding blank spaces at the beginning of the echo: echo " ",$data; The 0a was put in at the beginning again, followed by the spaces and then the file. Mickey -----Original Message----- From: Bastien Koert [mailto:bastien_k@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 2:07 PM To: mickey.martin@xxxxxxxxxxx; php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: help with file downloads from MySQL If you load the data into the field with addslashes, have you tried stripslashes on the way out? Bastien >From: "Mickey Martin" <Mickey.Martin@xxxxxxxxxxx> >To: php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: help with file downloads from MySQL >Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:55:56 -0600 > >Every time I try to download a file from MySQL it cannot be opened. >Using HexEdit, I noticed that all of the files are getting 0a added to >the beginning of them (happens with all browsers). > >I can look at the files with MySQL Query Browser and they don't have >the 0a. >Using php 4.3.11, Solaris 8, Apache 2.0.54, MySQL 4.1.11. > >Here's what I'm using: >mysql_select_db($database_ctnwww, $ctnwww); $query_Attachment = >sprintf("SELECT bin_data, filetype, filename, filesize FROM IssueAttach >WHERE id_files=%s", $_GET['id_files']); $Attachment = >mysql_query($query_Attachment, $ctnwww) or die(mysql_error()); >$row_Attachment = mysql_fetch_array($Attachment); > > $data = $row_Attachment['bin_data']; > $name = $row_Attachment['filename']; > $size = $row_Attachment['filesize']; > $type = $row_Attachment['filetype']; > > header("Content-type: $type"); > header("Content-length: $size"); > header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$name"); > header("Content-Description: PHP Generated Data"); > echo $data; > >Thanks in advance, >Mickey > >-- >PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: >http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
