PHP Question

gerryjuice

Im trying a content management sys using PHP. I seem to be having problems downloading the files in internet explorer they are being printed out as gibberish on a page, rather than using the correct appliaction.
CODE
$sql = "SELECT bin_data, filetype, filename, filesize FROM tbl_Files WHERE id_files=$id_files";

$result = @mysql_query($sql, $db);
$data = @mysql_result($result, 0, "bin_data");
$name = @mysql_result($result, 0, "filename");
$size = @mysql_result($result, 0, "filesize");
$type = @mysql_result($result, 0, "filetype");

header("Content-type: $type");
header("Content-length: $size");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$name");
header("Content-Description: PHP Generated Data");
echo $data;

Internet eplorer seems to ignore header("Content-type: $type");. Is there a way to store the file extension when uploading. And then use that file extension opening a file.

is_that_so

Have a look at PHP Net. There are some examples there on IE and headers.