Use PHP to write a META-REFRESH to the file that's going to be downloaded,
or a php file that controls the download. Basically, you show them an HTML
page that says the download will begin, the META tag refreshes after X
seconds to the actual file, and the download box pops up.
---John Holmes...
----- Original Message -----
From: "D. D. Brierton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 3:37 PM
Subject: [PHP] How to simultaneously send HTML *and* start download?
> 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>
> </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
>
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