Can you change the filename of a PHP page at runtime?

[TheDust]

This is a strange question I KNOW, but here is my situation...

I am displaying PDFs in a browser, pulling them from a mySQL database (this is a very secure site). This is the code that displays the PDF in the browser:

header("Content-type: application/pdf");
print(base64_decode($row["pdfFile"]));

$row["pdfFile"] is a BLOB field in the mySQL db.

This works fine when used in Internet Explorer or any browser with an Acrobat plug-in installed, but for people like Mozilla users, they are prompted with how they would like to treat the file (in my case, I use Mozilla and am asked to open with AcroExch).

So the problem is that users without a browser plug-in for Acrobat won't be able to view these, since it saves to their hard drive as a php file.

Any ideas?? Help is very much needed and would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

 

[sleipnir214]

Look for the string "Content-disposition" on the PHP online manual page for header()

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[TheDust]

Wow... that works perfect! Thanks! Man... kind of embarassing that the example was right there on the php.net page. Thanks for pointing that out.

Now the only question is... how do I redirect or close that browser window after the user downloads or opens the PDF? (the browser window just remains onscreen and blank) This problem isn't too much of a concern, but it would be nice if I could figure it out.

 

[sleipnir214]

Sorry, but I don't know.


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[theEclipse]

Dusty-

If your users use explorer (....ugh) it wont open a blank window like mozilla does. I think of that as a lacking on explorer or mozilla or adobe, not you. I know that one of the browser extensions that I run is called "DisableTargetsForDownloads" or something like that, and it was written to prevent that annoying window from opening up whenever you download a file that is pointed at a specific window.

The plugin is available on firefox's website

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