Open file as

Opshn · #1 10-03-2005, 12:16 PM

So I could ask this on a forum for php but I figure I would ask my friends here at Photics.com first.

On my web server I have some files that are stored as one file extension .tst and I want my people to be able to open them from a web link but the problem is that the files true format is varied. They are things like .pdf, .tif, .jpg, .bmp, etc. I was thinking at first I would use the php copy function to put the file on the users internet temp directory and then rename the file but then I was only able to make a copy from my web server to my web server. I tried php tmpfile and tempnam but perhaps I am not getting the concepts correct. What I really want to do is just use the original file name and extention to tell the web server to open the stored file as example.jpg instead of 1.tst

eagle · #2 10-05-2005, 01:44 PM

Your PHP need to set the Content-type header before return the *.tst file content. Here is list of known content-type you can use:

text/richtext
text/html
audio/x-aiff
audio/basic
audio/wav
image/gif
image/jpeg
image/pjpeg
image/tiff
image/x-png
image/x-xbitmap
image/bmp
image/x-jg
image/x-emf
image/x-wmf
video/avi
video/mpeg
application/postscript
application/base64
application/macbinhex40
application/pdf
application/x-compressed
application/x-zip-compressed
application/x-gzip-compressed
application/java
application/x-msdownload

Opshn · #3 10-05-2005, 08:12 PM

I wish it were that easy for me. I have tried to modify the content-type though as follows:

pure html:

Code:

<html>
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/pdf">
  
  <title>Doc Image Example</title>
</head>
<body>
[img]6.tst[/img]
</body>
</html>

pure php:

Code:

<?php
  header("Content-type: application/pdf"); //also tried: header("Content-type: application/pdf";);
  //and header("Content-type: application/pdf"; charset=utf-8);

  $filename = "6.tst" ;
  $dataFile = fopen( $filename, "r" ) ;

  if ( $dataFile )
  {
   while (!feof($dataFile))
   {
       $buffer = fgets($dataFile, 4096);
       echo $buffer;
   }

   fclose($dataFile);
  }
  else
  {
   die( "fopen failed for $filename" ) ;
  }
?>

the real problem is not getting the tst extension to open as a jpg but rather getting it to open as a tif. I can open it based on the original file name using RnOS ezpdf as a pdf file, but I haven't figured out a way to open the tif files in a web browser.

Opshn · #4 10-10-2005, 01:05 PM

Just in case anyone is reading this thread. I am not sure what I was doing wrong... maybe my local pc needed a reboot or something but the content-type did in fact work for pdf and tiff but I just couldn't seem to get it to show at first.

Code:

<?php
  header('Content-type: image/tiff');
  $fn="3.tst";
  readfile($fn);
?>