Question

I currently have several servers, the main ones a web server and an internal storage server. Data is stored in a SQL server database.

Without giving too much access to the user, how would I pull a specific document from the storage server for display to the user from the web server?

For example, I have document c:/memberID/info.pdf on the storage server and I want to display it to the client via PHP without giving them access to the internal storage server.

I hope this makes sense!

Answer 1

Look into readfile as well as headers

<?php
$file = 'monkey.gif';

if (file_exists($file)) {
    header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
    header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
    header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.basename($file));
    header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
    header('Expires: 0');
    header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate');
    header('Pragma: public');
    header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
    ob_clean();
    flush();
    readfile($file);
    exit;
}
?>