[TYPO3] readfile in extension

[Roberto Torresani]

Hi Dmitry!

2008/1/17, Dmitry Dulepov [typo3] <dmitry at typo3.org>:
>
> Hi!
>
> Roberto Torresani wrote:
> > I write a extension where I want read a file and write it to the output.
> > Now I set the Content-Type and use the php command readfile.
> >
> > When I call the page with my extension in the browser, I receive the
> file
> > with at the end the code html of the template in the page.
> > How can I send to the browser only the read file and not the rest of the
> > typo3page?
>
> Ideal sulotion would be to use eID approach. It does not load the whole
> [heavy] TYPO3 framework, does not need extra page types (=does not depend on
> TS & cannot cause typeNum conflicts) and does not produce any default HTML
> code. You can output the file much faster and easier with eID.


I don't know eID. What is?
I try to study more about this. Some tips of document to read?

Thanks

Roberto