[SOLVED] header file output

[hellonoko]

I am using the below code to download a file that is stored in a obfuscated matter as what it actually is when downloaded.

 

	
header('Content-type: application/octet-stream');

header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="$name"");

readfile("$file");

 

When I have the second line written as:

 

	header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="bigpicture.jpeg"');

 

It works fine.

 

However when I try to change it around so that I can use $name which contains the actual name the file should be saved as the code does not work or simply downloads as download.php  the name of the download script.

 

How do I properly insert my $name variable?

 

Thanks

[ratcateme]

you need to escape the "s like this

header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$name\"");

 

Scott.

[Jeremysr]

You can either do this:

 

header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$name\"");

 

Or this:

 

header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . $name . '"');

 

The reason it's not working for you is because you can only put variable names inside double-quoted strings, not single-quoted strings.