Joomla 3 PHP script added to Joomla 4 broken

Darrell_LeRoy · Post by **Darrell_LeRoy** » Fri Sep 15, 2023 10:07 pm

I have a PHP script added to Joomla that worked in Joomla 3. Joomla 4 broke the script.
The script is
<html>
<body>

<?php
$filename = $_POST['filename'];
$aa=$filename;
if ($aa == null) {
$b = "error";
} else {
$b = $aa ;
}
header('Content-type: application/pdf');
header('Content-Disposition: inline; filename=$b');
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
readfile($b);

?>
</body>
</html>
In J4, it displays the PDF file in raw form instead of showing the page.
Any help?

SharkyKZ · Post by **SharkyKZ** » Sat Sep 16, 2023 12:29 pm

Added where?

Darrell_LeRoy · Post by **Darrell_LeRoy** » Sun Sep 17, 2023 3:05 am

I have a form page that asks for a name. That page goes to a PHP script in a folder that searches that folder for that name and returns it with the option to view it. When you click view, that calls the referred script.

SharkyKZ · Post by **SharkyKZ** » Sun Sep 17, 2023 10:14 am

It's still unclear to me if this is an external script or not. In case it does runs through Joomla, the issue could be that you're using header() function instead of application's setHeader() method https://api.joomla.org/framework-2/clas ... _setHeader. Headers sent by application, overwrite those set beforehand. You can check this by inspecting the response headers in your browser.

eorisis · Post by **eorisis** » Fri Sep 22, 2023 8:54 am

Darrell_LeRoy wrote: ↑
Fri Sep 15, 2023 10:07 pm
I have a PHP script added to Joomla that worked in Joomla 3. Joomla 4 broke the script.
The script is
<html>
<body>

<?php
$filename = $_POST['filename'];
$aa=$filename;
if ($aa == null) {
$b = "error";
} else {
$b = $aa ;
}
header('Content-type: application/pdf');
header('Content-Disposition: inline; filename=$b');
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
readfile($b);

?>
</body>
</html>
In J4, it displays the PDF file in raw form instead of showing the page.
Any help?

If you use this in a separate file that you call from the url, you must exit right after readfile(). This means you got to remove all the html, body tags and not use a closing php tag at the end either. Start your file with <?php and nothing before that. Overall the code is not good.

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