PHP to protect PDF and DOC

Question

I am trying to provide .pdf and .doc files to authorized users on a website. The user can only see the file selection page when logged in but this

Answer 1

This did the job for me: I placed a .pdf and a .htaccess file with the following code in it in a normal folder (i named it "docs") on my apache webserver.

Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1


    Order Allow,Deny
    Allow from all

Then i took the code from Martin Barkers answer above, changed the filepath to "docs/sample.pdf", and pasted it into a .php file in my root directory. That's it. You can't access the file per url now, but you can download it if you run test.php.