Comments on: How to restrict image access to logged in users with PHP and .htaccess http://stuporglue.org/how-to-restrict-image-access-to-logged-in-users-with-php-and-htaccess/ Programming, Rambling and More! Wed, 16 May 2012 19:41:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: stuporglue http://stuporglue.org/how-to-restrict-image-access-to-logged-in-users-with-php-and-htaccess/comment-page-1/#comment-1080 stuporglue Thu, 03 May 2012 16:50:06 +0000 http://stuporglue.org/?p=37#comment-1080 To send any type of file as a download you just need to set the mime type. That's the "Content-type" header. header("Content-type: image/jpeg"); You can detect the mime type dynamically with either http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mime-content-type.php (PHP < 5.3) or http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.finfo-file.php (PHP >= 5.3) If you're doing just pdf's, the mime type is "application/pdf". If you want a download progress bar to appear you can also send the Content-Length header, otherwise browsers will show "Downloading .2MB of ???" etc. $fsize = filesize($filepath); header("Content-Length: ".$fsize); To send any type of file as a download you just need to set the mime type. That’s the “Content-type” header.

header(“Content-type: image/jpeg”);

You can detect the mime type dynamically with either

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mime-content-type.php (PHP < 5.3)
or
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.finfo-file.php (PHP >= 5.3)

If you’re doing just pdf’s, the mime type is “application/pdf”.

If you want a download progress bar to appear you can also send the Content-Length header, otherwise browsers will show “Downloading .2MB of ???” etc.

$fsize = filesize($filepath);
header(“Content-Length: “.$fsize);

]]> By: Ruatas http://stuporglue.org/how-to-restrict-image-access-to-logged-in-users-with-php-and-htaccess/comment-page-1/#comment-1078 Ruatas Thu, 03 May 2012 10:08:14 +0000 http://stuporglue.org/?p=37#comment-1078 How about PDF files? or any other kind of documents? How about PDF files? or any other kind of documents?

]]> By: stuporglue http://stuporglue.org/how-to-restrict-image-access-to-logged-in-users-with-php-and-htaccess/comment-page-1/#comment-670 stuporglue Wed, 29 Jun 2011 07:47:13 +0000 http://stuporglue.org/?p=37#comment-670 I'm glad you found it! I’m glad you found it!

]]> By: Francisco http://stuporglue.org/how-to-restrict-image-access-to-logged-in-users-with-php-and-htaccess/comment-page-1/#comment-669 Francisco Wed, 29 Jun 2011 04:28:30 +0000 http://stuporglue.org/?p=37#comment-669 Thank you so much! You saved me with this wonderful idea of using mod_rewrite for access control. I just wish this method was more often discussed in on forums (took me hours to get here). I will sure point some people to this page. Thank you so much! You saved me with this wonderful idea of using mod_rewrite for access control.

I just wish this method was more often discussed in on forums (took me hours to get here). I will sure point some people to this page.

]]> By: stuporglue http://stuporglue.org/how-to-restrict-image-access-to-logged-in-users-with-php-and-htaccess/comment-page-1/#comment-392 stuporglue Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:24:21 +0000 http://stuporglue.org/?p=37#comment-392 Fantastic! I'm glad it helped! Fantastic! I’m glad it helped!

]]> By: JasonSaeho http://stuporglue.org/how-to-restrict-image-access-to-logged-in-users-with-php-and-htaccess/comment-page-1/#comment-391 JasonSaeho Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:11:05 +0000 http://stuporglue.org/?p=37#comment-391 Thank you for this post, it helped me with an application I was making. Thank you for this post, it helped me with an application I was making.

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