Thankyou Ross, (may I call you Ross?) :-) Worked a treat. The correct order is \r\n (\n\r just produces 2 undisplayable characters [][]).
I had tried \n\r but hadn't considered using \r\n. Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou Henry "Ross Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > 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 > > > > -- > > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
