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section31 on 07/08/08

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// Serves an external document for download as an attachment.
// example usage: download_file('whatever.wmv');
function download_file($filename, $mimetype = 'application/octet-stream')
{
  if (!file_exists($filename) || !is_readable($filename)) return false;
  $base = basename($filename);
  header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
  header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$base");
  header("Content-Length: " . filesize($filename));
  header("Content-Type: $mimetype");
  readfile($filename);
  exit();
}

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