Thread: php - read filename extension in database

Hi,

I wonder if anyone can help me with this. I have a recordset to get the names of files to download, these are mostly PDFs so I have added the code to output a PDF file. If the file is not pdf I want to output it in the correct format.

So

PHP Code:

if (file is pdf) {
// We'll be outputting a PDF 
header('Content-type: application/pdf'); 
// called download.pdf 
header('Content-Disposition: inline; filename="download.pdf"'); 
// The source of the PDF
readfile("../pathtofile/".$row_rsFilelist['filename']); 
 
} else {
//we'll output probably just a link
} 


any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

You can use filetype function available in php

PHP: filetype - Manual

or you can check for the ".pdf" using stristr

PHP: stristr - Manual

Thanks Louie, I found a solution that works - here it is in case anyone else needs it:

if(strtolower(substr($row_rsFilelist['filename'], strlen($row_rsFilelist['filename'])-3)) == 'pdf'))