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Thread: PHP/MySQL - Link to word doc/pdf in database

  1. #1
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    PHP/MySQL - Link to word doc/pdf in database

    Hi guys,

    Wondering if anyone can help me please, I'm fairly new to php, but do understand it all.

    On my webpage, I have a login area, and on one of the sub pages, I'd like to display a list of word/pdf documents for that username.

    This is all ok, but I'm not sure how to achieve the later, I have created a MySQL table with a column being a medium blob, have (I think) successfully uploaded a simple word document into the table for a test user, so when I am on my php page, I am struggling to display this file as a char string. e.g. download, then when you click on this word, the pdf/word doc opens up.

    Here is my code that I'm trying.

    <?php
    // Get clients graphics history information

    $graphhist_sql = "SELECT history_number as hist_num, init_moodboard as init_moodboard,
    final_moodboard as final_moodboard FROM *****
    WHERE username = '$user'";


    // Execute SQL
    $graphhist_query = mysql_query($graphhist_sql, $connect) or die(mysql_error() . 'Error - Could not run SQL command');

    while ($graphhist_results = mysql_fetch_array($graphhist_query))
    { ?>

    <div id="CLGraphicsDownloadFiles">

    <table width="200" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1">
    <tr>
    <th scope="col"><h3>Initial Moodboard</h3></th>
    -- line in question <td><i><a href="<?php $graphhist_results['init_moodboard'] ?>" target="_blank">download</a><?php }?></i></td>
    </tr>

  2. #2
    Join Date
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    First I would either use mysqli_query or PDO for it is more secure, Second don't inject the variable ($user) directly into the query

    Do something like the following
    PHP Code:
    function html_escape($raw_input) {
        return 
    htmlspecialchars($raw_inputENT_QUOTES ENT_HTML401'UTF-8');     // important! don't forget to specify ENT_QUOTES and the correct encoding

    PHP Code:
    function update_content($edited_content) {
        
        global 
    $db;
        
        
    $edited_content html_escape($edited_content['content']); // Making sure no nasty injections happen.
        
        
    $query "UPDATE pages SET content='$edited_content' WHERE id LIMIT 1";
        
    // Execute the query here now
        
    $query mysqli_query($db$query) or die (mysqli_error($db)); 
        

    While nothing is 100 percent secure, it's best to have as tight as security as possible. One last thing I think you are making it your problem more trouble than it should be. maybe do something like the following?


    PHP Code:
    function display_content() {

         global 
    $db// Database Variable
         
    $user_id html_escape($_GET['id']);
         
    $query "SELECT id, content FROM pages WHERE id=$user_id LIMIT 1";
              
         
    // Get result from database or display error to user
         
    $result mysqli_query($db,$query) or die(mysqli_error($db));
         
         
    // Fetches the array .... MYSQLI_BOTH is Integer and String
         
    $result mysqli_fetch_array($resultMYSQLI_BOTH);               
         
         return 
    $result;

    then all you have to do is some like this

    PHP Code:
    <?php
            $result 
    display_content();
        echo 
    "<p>" $result['content'] . "</p>";
    Obviously the code above will not work, but I hope this gives you a better start to your problem.

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