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Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 12:53 pm
by kendall
Hi,
I didnt no where to post this so if some one has an appropirate place...thanks
My question deals with using the header() to output content type based on a filename in php
now i no header(Content Type: text/html) is fo HTML
and header(Content Type: image/jpeg) is fo JPEG
but is there something 'standard' that can be used to header() whether its jpeg, gif, html, php , text, swf, a g-string thong, or a nut?
Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 12:54 pm
by Cruzado_Mainfrm
i don't think so, because text is text and binary is binary
Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 11:49 pm
by JAM
Actually, text/html? Does that exists really?
Anyways,
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/rfc/rfc1494.html
Perhaps you will find more info there.
Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2003 7:15 pm
by m3mn0n
[big_search]mime types[/big_search]
Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2003 8:43 pm
by d3ad1ysp0rk
wow Sami, you really love these new forum features don't you?

Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 7:35 pm
by m3mn0n
Oh yeah.

Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2003 12:31 pm
by kendall
What about .swf files
are the image/swf or text/swf
KEndall
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2003 1:04 pm
by Gen-ik
kendall wrote:What about .swf files
are the image/swf or text/swf
KEndall
SWF files are
application/x-shockwave-flash
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2003 1:10 pm
by kendall
Gen,
Goosh!!!! this is even harder than i thought...
I wanted to build an advertisement system that will display images, html or swf files.
I thought i would have been as simple as a header() or an include but dang this is getting really far ahead of me
Kendall
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2003 1:40 pm
by d3ad1ysp0rk
include ("$filename");
whats wrong with that?
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2003 1:49 pm
by JAM
LiLpunkSkateR wrote:include ("$filename");
whats wrong with that?
When i think of adverts (and PHP combined) I think of the earlier discussions there have been using:
<img src="
http://www.example.com/advertisment.php?id=23" />
advertisment.php is a script, that takes the id and returns 'something' based on that. If id 23 points to a .jpg, the script needs to send the correct headers for the image to show.
Take Jason's avatar on this forum. That avatar is really a random image generator script, working basicly the same way. Using include('file') will not work in this case.
If this is kendall's case, I do not know, but at least I might have shared some light on the subject.

Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2003 2:14 pm
by kendall
JAM,
well i wish it was as simple as jpeg images well it cud be but im exploring the use of html and swf as advertisement files so i was researching options for using html headers and swf headers but the headers for these
are very different so im thinking i have to do some conditioning...just wanted to know what people do in these cases
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2003 2:24 pm
by d3ad1ysp0rk
so why not just have the person using your advertising service go:
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<?PHP include ("http://www.example.com/script.php?id=4858") ?>
and on script.php have something that randomly picks and displays it using the correct tags
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<?PHP
display[0] = <img src="http://www.example.com/pic.gif">;
display[1] = <img src="http://www.example.com/pic2.jpg">;
display[2] = <flash tags = "http://www.example.com/flash.swf">;
display[3] = <a href="http://www.example.com/redirect.php?link=39">;
echo $display[random];
?>
sorry if im totally off base, but this is my first time trying something like this and it seems like it should work..
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2003 2:56 pm
by kendall
lilPnuk,
Im using a database with a click stat position and stuff...sometimes i ask myself...why do i make things so hard...then i tell my self....because im an idiot...we do thing the hard way
even if i include i would have to do a number of header() combinations but i was also catering for a non-php world so i rezorted to using <script src="file.php"> scenario which would have allowed me to document.write the result but that has grown more difficult
i think im gonna go with the include i jus have to find the rite method of diaplying based on the type of file...
believe it or not there is a mime_content_type() that cud have solved my issues but gosh DARN it my IHP's have screwe me...again.
yes things are jus F@#! up wid me today
going and have a beer [henikin]
later
Kendall
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2003 3:24 pm
by JAM
kendall wrote:
going and have a beer [henikin]
later
Kendall
Can't... resist... replying...
But spelling Heiniken as henikin tells me that you allready had one or fifteen allready
