Comments on: Serving up Files from a database in CakePHP

By: Hayden Eastwood

Hayden Eastwood — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:46:18 +0000

Thanks, this is a great little piece of code, and very well explained!

By: xav0989

xav0989 — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:43:37 +0000

How about the media view?

By: Eddie

Eddie — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:34:48 +0000

@Leo

Thanks! I recently updated my syntax highlighter and it seemed to break several code snippets above.

I have made the fix so everyone can see the right controller, view and model code.

-Eddie

By: leo

leo — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:45:26 +0000

Eddie – my browser (Firefox 3.6.3) is masking the layout code. Here it is if anybody else is having problems (original is surrounded by php tags):

header(‘Content-type: ‘ . $file['ProjectFile']['type']);
if(!isset($inpage)) header(‘Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=”‘.$file['ProjectFile']['name'].’”‘);
echo $content_for_layout;
die();

By: asar

asar — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:49:11 +0000

How to save the image in database and to
retrieve the image from database and to display in the page. i’ve
tried that but i cant able to get the proper output. could you pls
help me to do this.

By: Milos

Milos — Fri, 21 May 2010 20:45:06 +0000

Unfortunately this isn’t fix my problem. I don’t understand how this can work because you didn’t set Content-type. where do you use $inpage?

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By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 06:04:07 +0000

Hey, problem solved!

thanks for the help. Turns out one of my helpers was adding a blank line at the top of my page. I switched the downloads to another controller and viola! Works like a charm.

One quick question though, is there anyway to redirect to a certain page after the download has been initiated?

Thanks for the wonderful component!

By: Eddie

Eddie — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:25:52 +0000

I would check the php files for blank lines just before or after < ?php ?> tags. For example

 

myCode();
?>

As these may be printed and inserted above the cells actually content.

(On that note you try running a dump directly from the cell to be sure your not saving a blank line when uploading.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:46:50 +0000

Hi,

I’m having a little problem using your script to serve zip files. The file downloads perfectly, but if I try to unzip it, I get an error.

I opened the zip file with a text editor and noticed there is a blank line being added at the top of the file. If I remove this line and save the file, it unzips perfectly. Also, if I put the file in a web-accessible directory and navigate directly to the zip file, it works perfectly.

There are no echos or prints in my download action. I’ve tried everything I can think of.

Any suggestions?