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Rerouted route and output headers - El Forum - 06-28-2012
[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
I swear this was working a few hours ago but now it's not
I have an old website where people can download levels for an old video game. They would normally go to the url
http://mydomain.com/maps/filename.zip
I've since re done the site in codeigniter
the correct url now is
http://mydomain.com/downloads/maps/filename.zip
However, in case they use outdated links I added an override in my routes
Code:
$route['maps/(:any)'] = "downloads/maps/$1";What im trying to do is store the file into a variable, do some logging in the database and then send the file to the output buffer so that it downloads it
Everything works fine when i access the route directly by going to
http://mydomain.com/downloads/maps/filename.zip
But when i access the alias (mydomain.com/maps/filename.zip) it still goes into the correct controller and method but chokes on the output part. For instance i can debug with var_dumps and it works all day but when i try to output the file i get errors
Chrome: Error 6 (net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND): The file or directory could not be found.
IE: Asks to open or save then says the file cannot be opened/saved
FF: Firefox cannot find the file
My downloads function looks like this
Code:
function maps($filename=null)
{
$this->load->model('mapsmodel', 'maps', true);
$data['filename'] = $filename;
$file = $this->maps->get_by_file_name($data);
if($file == null)
{
$read = file_get_contents('http://mydomain.com/map/'.$filename);
if(substr($read, 0, 2)!='PK')
{
redirect(base_url('gmd/mapnotfound'));
return;
}
}
else
{
$read = file_get_contents($file[0]->link);
$this->log_download('map_downloads', $file[0]->map_id, $this->maps);
}
$this->output->set_content_type('application/zip');
$this->output->set_output($read);
}Rerouted route and output headers - El Forum - 06-28-2012
[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
I'm now getting around it by setting up a controller called maps and putting redirect logic in the constructor
Code:
class Maps extends CI_Controller
{
function __construct()
{
parent::__construct();
$this->load->helper('url');
$uri = uri_string();
$map = explode('/', $uri);
$map = $map[1];
redirect(base_url('downloads/maps/'.$map));
}
}If anyone knows how I can do it the way I want in the post above then please let me know
Thanks