PHP output file on disk to browser

Question

I want to serve an existing file to the browser in PHP. I\'ve seen examples about image/jpeg but that function seems to save a file to disk and you have to create a right si

Answer 1

This should get you started: http://de.php.net/manual/en/function.readfile.php

Edit: If your web server supports it, using

header('X-Sendfile: ' . $filename);

where file name contains a local path like

/var/www/www.example.org/downloads/example.zip

is faster than readfile().

(usual security considerations for using header() apply)