How to run a php script which contains a pdf

[fred smith]

On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 07:13:22AM -0500, Bob McConnell wrote:
> Nigel Henry wrote:
> >On Saturday 31 October 2009 21:29, Athmane Madjoudj wrote:
> >>On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Nigel Henry
> >>
> >><cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr> wrote:
> >>>I was trying to read an online tool catalogue, and noticed a PDF button
> >>>at the bottom of the webpage. Clicked on it, and it opened the dialog box
> >>>to download. What has been downloaded though is a .php script (27.3MB).
> >>>
> >>>The properties shows that it contains a pdf document, but I've no idea
> >>>how to run it, open it, or whatever needs to be done, to get to see the
> >>>PDF.
> >>>
> >>>Any suggestions folks.
> >>>
> >>>Nigel.
> >>
> >>Try to rename it:
> >>
> >>mv FILE_NAME.php FILE_NAME.pdf
> >>
> >>and open it with Evince
> >>
> >
> >Renaming it has done the job, and it has opened with no problems.
> >
> >Many thanks.
> >
> >Nigel.
> 
> There is a simple way to check a file to see if it really is a pdf. Open 
> it in a text editor. If the first four characters are '%pdf', then it is 
> safe to rename it.

On unix-like systems the offical method is to do:

	file filename

see "man file".

> These first four bytes are the magic number in Unix based systems. This 
> is a much more reliable and flexible way to mark files with a type than 
> the extensions used by Microsoft. I believe the 'type' command will also 
> tell you what this marker means. i.e. 'type FILE_NAME.php'.
> 
> Bob McConnell
> N2SPP
> 
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