Sending a File to the Browser in PHP

Asked Feb 10 '16 at 04:52

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I'm trying to display a file in the browser. My code works fine with .txt,.jpeg and .pdf. But when the file type is .docx, the browser will download my php file. My question is why is my php file downloaded instead of the actual .docx file, and how to solve this problem. Thank you!

<?php
session_start();

$file_name = $_POST["view"];
$finfo = new finfo(FILEINFO_MIME_TYPE);
$mime = $finfo->file($file_name);

header("Content-Type: " . $mime);
readfile($file_name);
?>

asked Feb 10 '16 at 04:52

JYLock

Here you can find your answer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19503653/how-to-extract-text-from-word-file-doc-docx-xlsx-pptx-php – MasoodRehman Feb 10 '16 at 05:00
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This is vulnerable to Local File Inclusion. – Matt Feb 10 '16 at 05:06

Sending a File to the Browser in PHP

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