PHP echo file contents -

i have pdf file located off webpage's root. want serve file in ../cvs users using php.

here code have sofar:

header('content-type: application/pdf');  $file = file_get_contents('/home/eamorr/sites/eios.com/www/cvs/'.$cv); echo $file; 

but when call php page, nothing gets printed! i'd serve pdf file stored name in $cv (e.g. $cv = 'xyz.pdf').

the ajax response php page returns text of pdf (gobbldy-gook!), want file, not gobbldy-gook!

i hope makes sense.

many in advance,

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here's ajax i'm using

$('#getcurrentcv').click(function(){     var params={         type: "post",         url: "./ajax/getcv.php",         data: "",         success: function(msg){             //msg gobbldy-gook!         },         error: function(){          }     };     var result=$.ajax(params).responsetext; }); 

i'd user prompted download file.

don't use xhr (ajax), link script 1 below. http headers script outputs instruct browser download file, user not navigate away current page.

<?php // "sendfile.php"  //remove after testing - in particular, i'm concerned our file large, , there's memory_limit error happening you're not seeing messages about. error_reporting(e_all); ini_set('display_errors',1);  $file = '/home/eamorr/sites/eios.com/www/cvs/'.$cv;  //check sanity , give meaning error messages // (also, handle errors more gracefully here, don't want emit details //  filesystem in production code) if (! file_exists($file)) die("$file not exist!"); if (! is_readable($file)) die("$file unreadable!");  //dump file header('cache-control: public');  header('content-type: application/pdf'); header('content-disposition: attachment; filename="some-file.pdf"'); header('content-length: '.filesize($file));  readfile($file);  ?> 

then, simplify javascript:

$('#getcurrentcv').click(function(){      document.location.href="sendfile.php"; });