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  1. Mar 8th, 2005, 10:33 AM #1
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    Red face 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
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  2. Mar 8th, 2005, 11:54 AM #2
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    Re: Can PHP return a file?

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


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    Re: Can PHP return a file?

    Hi John,

    Thank again. Header really solves my problem. Do you have a complete list of headers with their explanations?
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  4. Mar 9th, 2005, 11:56 AM #4
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    Re: Can PHP return a file?

    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.
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