Chris Dean’s Personal Website

<?php

//———————————————– //  

Function to force download of a file

//———————————————–

public function download($file_name, $file_path, $mime_type)

{

        header(‘Content-Description: File Transfer’);

        header(‘Content-Type: ‘.$mime_type);

        header(‘Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="’.$file_name.‘";’);

        header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");

        header(‘Content-Length: ‘ .    filesize($file_path));

        @readfile($file_path);

        die();

}

?>

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I have no idea what causes this but you can get round it by compiling it as a shared module (http://scriptmantra.info/admin_ahead_com/cPanel_AP2_PHP5.html)
I have just compiled php 5.2.3 and the error still exists (if you look [...]

//———————————————–

// Function to force download of a file

//———————————————–

public function download($file_name, $file_path, $mime_type)

{

        header(‘Content-Description: File Transfer’);

        header(‘Content-Type: ‘.$mime_type);

        header(‘Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="’.$file_name.‘";’);

        header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");

        header(‘Content-Length: ‘ .    filesize($file_path));

        @readfile($file_path);

        die();

}

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I recently found rentacoder.com and decided to have a look at how the site works, and how it may be of use to someone such as myself who does to odd bit of freelance web development work.
Rent a coder’s setup is pretty simple, people who need jobs done post the job plus a price range [...]

From this blog you can see the kind of things that interest me and I write about.
To aid me when writing content I use certain plug-ins to the core system to add in the functionality I require.
What follows is a list of the plug-ins I use to achieve the output you see from post to [...]

This is my archive of regular expressions for use in php usually with the preg_match type functions. If you can improve on these I’d like to know as they are mostly just harvested from other sources as I need them and it’s possible they could be improved:
This code isn’t strictly correct as word press’s inbuilt [...]

Well it’s the end of the day at work and after 8 hours of picking csv spreadsheets to bits I find myself with nothing left to aside from looking out of the window into the night and waiting for a phone call from one of our partners - and as such I decided to be [...]