Congratulations on discovering the difference between windows and linux
carriage returns. :) There are 2 types of new-line character, \r (carriage
return, ie move the cursor back the the left hand side of the screen) and \n
(new line, strictly interpreted as "move cursor down one line, but not
along"). Linux quite happily accepts \n as, "new line and return cursor to
left home" however windows needs both, \n\r (or vice versa, I'm not sure
which). Linux fortunately will accept \n\r as a single return, so feel free to
always put \n\r
R
Henry Grech-Cini wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Firstly, I am a newbie to php so please be gentle.
>
> I'm having problems with carriage returns placed in a file on a Linux based
> server. When this file is download to a WindowsXP machine the carriage
> returns are quite frankly useless. I just get "[]" (where "[]" represents an
> undisplayable character. No actual carriage returns or newlines!
>
> I generate the file using the following code (fragment only):
>
> while($row=mysql_fetch_array($mysql_result))
> {
> $f_title=$row["title"];
> $f_first_name=$row["first_name"];
> $f_surname=$row["surname"];
> $f_email=$row["email"];
> fputs($file_op,"$f_title, $f_first_name, $f_surname, $f_email\n");
> }
>
> I then use the following link to a download_it.php script as described in
> Tansley as follows:
>
> $parameters="file_name=".urlencode($file_name)."&file_size=$file_size";
> echo "<A HREF=\"downloadit.php?$parameters\">download it</A>";
>
> The download_it.php file looks as follows:
> <?php
> #downloadit.php
> $file_name=urldecode($file_name);
> header("Content-type: Application/octet-stream");
> header("Content-Disposition: attachment;filename=download/download.txt");
> header("Content-Description: PHP Download");
> header("Content-Length: $file_size");
> readfile($file_name);
> ?>
>
> Appart from the fact that the Content-Disposition appears not to be working
> under IE6 since the file name is not correct.
>
> The downloaded file does not contain Windows type carriage returns of
> newlines! However it does contains the data thank goodness.
>
> What is the fix?
>
> Henry Grech-Cini
>
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