Trying to download Blob via PHP / MySQL

Question

This is one I just can't figure out: I have successfully built an upload feature on a web page to upload files to a MySQL Database. When I go on the server and open them via phpMyAdmin, they all look fine... txt, jpg, pdf, etc.

Yet, after putting together THIS thing (below) to download it, I get a strange problem: All of the text documents (and all other types of files, after I change the extension to 'txt') contain HTML code of the page itself, followed by the original content!

Also, different browsers display differently after the POST. When trying to download a txt file, IE will show the correct data in the ECHO on the page itself (no downloading) with an error message just before it:

Warning: Header may not contain more than a single header, new line detected. in C:\wamp\www\ace\dmain.php on line 82.

Line 82 is 'header("Content-length...'

Neither Firefox nor Chrome show anything. They just allow me to download it.

Here's the code:

<?php
if (isset($_POST['downloadid'])) {
    $fileid = $_POST['downloadid'];
    try {
      $sql = "SELECT * FROM `datastore` WHERE `id` = '".$fileid."'";
        $results = $pdo->query($sql);echo $sql;
        while ($row = $results->fetch()) {
            $filename = $row['filename'];
            $mimetype = $row['mimetype'];
            $filedata = $row['filedata'];
            header("Content-length: strlen($filedata)");
            header("Content-type: $mimetype");
            header("Content-disposition: download; filename=$filename"); //disposition of download forces a download
            echo $filedata; 
            // die();
        } //of While
    } //try
    catch (PDOException $e) {
        $error = '<br>Database ERROR fetching requested file.';
        echo $error;
        die();    
    } //catch
} //isset
?>

Answer 1

This:

header("Content-length: strlen($filedata)");

Is not going to produce what you expect. If you look at the headers in wireshark, or another method to view the request you will see that it does not contain an integer.

Use this instead:

header("Content-length: ".strlen($filedata));