"D. D. Brierton" wrote: > > The result I'm looking for is like the CGI script at netscape for downloading > NS6 - it takes you to a page which says aomething like "The download should > start automatically" and then the download begins. I'm having trouble figuring > out how to do this in PHP - I suspect through ignorance of the appropriate > HTTP headers. Am I looking for something like Content-type: multipart? So what > I'm looking to achieve is a bit like what this obviously fails to do (but > hopefuly you can see what I'm aiming at): > > <?php > $fp = fopen("myfile.foo","r"); > header("Content-type: application/foo"); > header("Content-Disposition: filename=myfile.foo"); > fpassthru($fp); > fclose($fp); > ?> > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> > <html> > <head> > <title>Download</title>
<script language="javascript"> Your automatic download javascript code goes here!! </script> > </head> > <body> > <p>The download should start automatically. If it does not, right click > the following link and choose "Save as ..."</p> > <p><a href="myfile.foo">Download MyFile</a></p> > </body> > </html> > > Obviously what actually happens with the above is that the HTML after the PHP > script is appended to myfile.foo. > > Can anyone point me in the right direction? > > TIA, Darren > > -- > ====================================================================== > D. D. Brierton [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.dzr-web.com > Trying is the first step before failure (Homer Simpson) > ====================================================================== > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php Cheers, Rob. -- .-----------------. | Robert Cummings | :-----------------`----------------------------. | Webdeployer - Chief PHP and Java Programmer | :----------------------------------------------: | Mail : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Phone : (613) 731-4046 x.109 | :----------------------------------------------: | Website : http://www.webmotion.com | | Fax : (613) 260-9545 | `----------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php