Question

I keep getting this error and I have tried putting quotes around the actual array, periods, nothing has worked.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING on line 8

$id = $_GET['id'];
$record = "SELECT `Name`, `Type`, `Size`, `Content` FROM election_candidates WHERE `ID` = '$id'";
$result = $db->query($record);

foreach ($result as $results) {
    header("Content-length: $results['Size']");  <---Line 8
    header("Content-type: $results['Type']");
    header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$results['Name']");

    // echo $results['Size'];

    echo $results['Content'];
}

exit();

Answer 1

Try the complex (curly) syntax, symple syntax or the concatenation operator:

// Added isset() and intval()
$id = isset($_GET['id']) ? intval($_GET['id']) : 0;
// Removed quotes from 'id'=...
$record = "SELECT `Name`, `Type`, `Size`, `Content` FROM election_candidates WHERE `ID` = $id";
$result = $db->query($record);

foreach ($result as $results) {
    // complex (curly) syntax
    header("Content-length: {$results['Size']}");
    // simple syntax (without quotes)
    header("Content-type: $results[Type]");
    // using concatenation operator
    header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.$results['Name']);

    // echo $results['Size'];

    echo $results['Content'];
}

exit();

In addition you should escape $_GET['id'] and you don’t need quotes for an integer in MySQL. I’ve corrected these two “problems” in the above code.

You could also add LIMIT 1 to the SQL query and remove the foreach loop 😉