Passing binary/text to download function, in PHP?

[jumpthru]

Can I grab a text or binary file from a PHP file and pass it on to the browser as to be downloaded so that the browser pops up and asks where you want it to be saved? If so how?

Thanks.

[daemon]

All you need is to echo the folowing:

header("location: yourfile.zip");

[jumpthru]

Two problems:

1) It must be done before you send anything else (i dont want to here about the buffer thingy you can turn on and all that, i am just saying that all in all this is bad)

2) All that does is forward to a page. So if its a php page it will just be displayed, instead of having the browser pop up to have it download.

Any other suggestoins?

[freddydoesphp]

Make a file named whatever(I named mine dl.php) and stick this in it.

<?
    header("204 No Content");
    header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$file."\"");
    readfile($file);    
?>

Then link to files like this.

<a href="dl.php?file=filename.gif">download file</a>

[jumpthru]

Okay, this sounds like it is going to work perfectly. Thanks!