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Accessing Zip Files Outside Public_HTML Folder

I have a need to allow users to download ZIP files that reside outside the Public_HTML folder and found a PHP script that does just that - http://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/129814-solved-accessing-images-and-files-that-are-located-outside-document-root/

It works great for PDF files but when I put a zip file in, the browser tries to save/open secure.php for some reason. I shrunk the code down a bit as follow:

Link Page to download

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body >
<a href="secure.php?file=45int.zip">File Linke</a>
</body>
</html>

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secure.php file:

<?php
  $folder = realpath('/home/rogersho/tester');
  $file = realpath($folder.'/'.$_GET['file']);
  header(sprintf("Content-type: %s;",getMimeType($file)));
  readfile($file);
  exit;

   function getMimeType ( $filename ) {
    //MIME MAP
$mime_extension_map = array(
    'pdf'           => 'application/pdf',
    'zip'           => 'application/zip'
);
    //Get Extension

    $ext = strtolower(substr($filename,strrpos($filename,'.') + 1));
    if(empty($ext))
      return 'application/octet-stream';
    elseif(isset($mime_extension_map[$ext]))
      return $mime_extension_map[$ext];
    return 'x-extension/' . $ext;
  }
?>

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Ray Paseur

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Jason92s

ASKER

Oh, now I see what you're saying. Perfect, works great, thank you.

Ray Paseur

Great! Thanks for the points and good luck with the project, ~Ray