Readfile() issues

Hangin' Around Joined: May 31, 2006 Posts: 49

Hi,

I'm currently working on a script that uses readfile to open documents outside of the web root that are all located in the same folder/path.

The script sends the correct headers for the type of document, and I have triple checked all files are in the correct location.

The folder only contains excel(.xls), word (.doc) and pdf(.pdf) files.

Now the problem I am having is that when I go to download a word document it just appears as a blank document. xls and pdf are working fine and appearing as they should. I have googled this problem loads but am un able to find anything that provides a suitable answer (adding extra heaer lines in, changing the application/msword mime type to octet-stream) and its beginning to get rather frustrating Evil or Very Mad

Has anyone else ever come across a similar problem or would know of a resolution to this?

EDIT---On further investigation into this I believe that it may be somewhere in the upload of these files that is having an adverse effect on the contents of the file. Why this would only happen on a word document I have no idea but when I downloaded the file via ftp. it just contained random characters. The files are not uploaded via ftp but by another ftp script that uses is_uploaded_file and move_uploaded_file and I cannot see anything that would effect the upload.

Many Thanks

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

Have you verified that your ftp script is sending the files as binary and not ascii? Have you tried manually ftp'ing them via your ftp client and does that work? That would narrow the problem down considerably.

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:45 am

Hi Raven,

Out of everything i checked that was the one thing I forgot Embarassed

I wont be able to check until tomorrow now but thanks for the suggestion. I'll post back tomorrow.

many thanks

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:52 am

Hi,

I've uploaded a file via ftp as you suggested and i am still getting the same issue. The files just come up totally empty. Whats weird is the file sizes are shown as what they should be and not 0kb. Sorry in my 2nd post I noticed I said they were uploaded by an ftp script. I meant to say they were uploaded using a normal php upload script using is_uploaded_file and move_uploaded_file.