Can PHP return a file?

Hi guys,

If my user's browser submits a form with certain parameters that are used to perform a searching in my database. After searching, is it possible to use PHP to return a file for example car.gif to the user's browser. I meant just the car.gif without any using HTML or XHTML or PHP.

Your help is very much appreciated. Thank you :D

You need to use the header() function to change the content tpye of the page.


Take a look at it goes into detail about creating downloads,
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...=File+Download

Hi John,

Thank again. Header really solves my problem. Do you have a complete list of headers with their explanations?

Take a look at these for more header information

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/http.html

Hope they help you out some more.