[Trying to configure download from a specific directory]

sorry, the question is meant towards multiple sub-domains; Is there a config file that I can create to set the site_root sorta like a jail so it does not look at the server_root?

[Trying to configure download from a specific directory]

excellent, thank you kevinkorb! Ah yea I thought the /download would point to the site_root instead of the server_root. Quick question, Is it possible to create a global site_root variable for this?

 

for example:

/root

    /public_html

        -> /example.com

                  -> /download.php

                  -> /download

                            -> new.txt

 

Could this be done. I would create a global variable named base_dir=/example.com and use $base_dir/download. My goal is to re-do the code, clean it up a bit and to re-organize the source and files into more meaningful names. By cleaning up and updating the code with global variables this would make the source more manageable.

 

so with your update I would like if this could be done. This is probably a bad example but if lets say for example your adding global variables to a source file full of image links where instead of changing all paths you just need to change it in once at the top.

 

base_dir=/example.com

$file='$base_dir/download/new.txt';

$type='text/plain';

 

header("Pragma: public");

header("Expires: 0");

header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");

header("Cache-Control: private",false);

header("Content-Type: ".$type);

header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".basename($file)."\";" );

header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");

header("Content-Length: ".filesize($file));

 

readfile($file);

[Trying to configure download from a specific directory]

excellent, thank you for the help. My layout looks similar to the layout below. Within the example.com domain is the download.php and the file new.txt is in the download folder.

 

/root

    /public_html

        -> /example.com

                  -> /download.php

                  -> /download

                            -> new.txt

[Trying to configure download from a specific directory]

ah ok, I need this to work from the site root instead of the server root. Is there a way to force it to use the site root?

[Trying to configure download from a specific directory]

I get file does not exist.

[Trying to configure download from a specific directory]

Hello all,

  I am having a difficult time trying to download a file from a directory. I have tried to research this issue but each time I keep getting an empty text file instead of a ~2mb file. What I would like to have is to place my file (new.txt) in a separate folder. As of now it is under the root directory and it works fine but when I include a path then I get an error file not found.

 

Thanks

 

#########################################

#########################################

$file='/path/new.txt';

$type='text/plain';

 

header("Pragma: public");

header("Expires: 0");

header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");

header("Cache-Control: private",false);

header("Content-Type: ".$type);

header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".basename($file)."\";" );

header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");

header("Content-Length: ".filesize($file));

 

readfile($file);

[php include variable issue]

Just curious,  so there is no way to use URLs in my example. Just wondering how that would work if the site is being hosted other than locally?

 

I tried $CFG->root = /var/www as well as some other combinations but I still get errors.

[php include variable issue]

Hello all,

  I was wondering if this could be done. I would like to re-design my site where the files being called on is using global variables instead of using syntax "../" or "../../". I would like use a more readable approach using global variables like $dir_name/file_name instead if possible. I figured this way there will only be one place to update instead of scanning through the whole file doing a search and replace on each item.

  Below is a general idea of what I would like. In this example I have four files: a global, header, footer and an index file. The index file includes the global file without a problem however I had problems executing the header and footer files when using variables as seen commented.

 

Respectively yours,

Rick

 

<!-- Start testGlobal.php -->

<?

    $CFG->root = "http://127.0.0.1/test";

 

$CFG->headerDir = "$CFG->root/header";

$CFG->footerDir = "$CFG->root/footer";

?>

<!-- End testGlobal.php -->

 

<!-- Start index.php -->

<?php

include("TestGlobal.php");

?>

 

<!-- <? echo $CFG->headerDir; ?>/header.php -->

<?php include ("./header/header.php"); ?>

 

bla bla bla<br><br>

 

<!-- <? echo $CFG->footerDir; ?>/footer.php -->

<?php include ("./footer/footer.php"); ?>

<!-- End index.php>

 

<!-- Start header.php -->

<html>

<head>

<title>Hello world</title>

</head>

Header Test Section<br><br>

<body>

</html>

<!-- End header.php -->

 

<!-- Start footer.php -->

Copyright @ test.com

<!-- End footer.php>