send Rtf file directly to browser ?

[webcarle]

Is there a way to send Rtf file directly to browser  without saving to file before ?

[Anonymous]

well I tried this with one of the examples:
just add this headers at the begining of the file, just after the includes if you want, but before any output

<?php
header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=file.rtf");
/*
populating the file...
*/
$rtf->save('php://output');
?>

so basically you are telling the server to output directly to the browser instead of a file stream, and with the headers you are telling the browser the type and how to handle the file.

[Starikov Sergey]

To my experience it is not completely correct.
In my case such code produced invalid rtf file.
The right one is:

 header("Pragma: public");
 header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename='.$rtf_filename);
 header('Content-type: application/rtf');
 header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
 ob_clean();
 flush();
 $rtf->save('php://output');

[webcarle]

Thank you for your answer.
I've already found the solution by reading the source files
just write this:

$rtf->sendRtf($filename.'.rtf'); // (filename is just de name without path…

this will send the rtf directly to the browser ready to save under the name $filename.rtf  (and nothing saved on server).