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Asked: 2026-05-12T09:39:19+00:00

What is the best practice when serving files from the Zend Framework MVC? These

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What is the best practice when serving files from the Zend Framework MVC? These files have to be served from the MVC as they are protected.

I know you can read in the file and place it into the Response object but this seems like a bad practice as you would be reading the entire file into memory then serving it. Right now I usually do:

header('Content-type: image/jpeg');
fpassthru(fopen($path, 'rb'));
exit;

But this also doesn’t seem right as I’m stopping the execution of the script. Any suggestions?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I see nothing wrong with just exit(); What you will need to be careful of is any output buffering layers you may have on (gzip compression, etc). Large files could blow up those buffers pretty quick, so you’ll want to close them out and potentially ‘chunk’ your output with a fopen/fread loop.

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