[PHP] Re: Sending files to the user...?

[Alan McFarlane]

Oh, and BTW, after sending the file, I will be redirecting the user to a
different page...

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 The problem:

 How to I send a file to the user? Sounds simple but, assume I have a
'daily
 report' option from my main web page. When the user clicks on it, they are
 taken to the file 'generate_report.php' (sample included).

 Now, this code should generate the report, compress it if required and
send
 it ot the user - i.e. a dialog box opens asking the user to open/save/run
 the incoming file.

 Question is, how? - I've toyed with Content-Disposition but I'm not sure
of
 any reference materials for this. (Perhaps someone knows the RFC)

 The code:

 ?php
 /* file: generate_report.php */

 // build the report
 $report = xml...; /* basically an xml document

 // compress if possible
 if (extension_loaded(zlib)  (strlen($report)  1024))
 {
 $report = gzcompress($report);
 $compress = true;
 }
 else
 {
 $compressed = false;
 }

 $length = strlen($report);// I presume this can handle binary data

 //header( something );

 ?





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RE: [PHP] Re: Sending files to the user...?

[Jerry Verhoef (UGBI)]

Your are on the right track.

Using the Header function is the way to do it.
But I guess you forget to take a look at the manual page. There are all
questions that you ask answered :) 

So take a look http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php .

in short:
RFC: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616
Force download:
header(Content-type: application/pdf);
header(Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=downloaded.pdf);

/* ... output pdf file ... */


Kind Regards,
Jerry
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 From: Alan McFarlane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 1:36 PM
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 Subject: [PHP] Re: Sending files to the user...?
 
 
 Oh, and BTW, after sending the file, I will be redirecting 
 the user to a
 different page...
 
 Alan McFarlane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
  The problem:
 
  How to I send a file to the user? Sounds simple but, assume I have a
 'daily
  report' option from my main web page. When the user clicks 
 on it, they are
  taken to the file 'generate_report.php' (sample included).
 
  Now, this code should generate the report, compress it if 
 required and
 send
  it ot the user - i.e. a dialog box opens asking the user to 
 open/save/run
  the incoming file.
 
  Question is, how? - I've toyed with Content-Disposition but 
 I'm not sure
 of
  any reference materials for this. (Perhaps someone knows the RFC)
 
  The code:
 
  ?php
  /* file: generate_report.php */
 
  // build the report
  $report = xml...; /* basically an xml document
 
  // compress if possible
  if (extension_loaded(zlib)  (strlen($report)  1024))
  {
  $report = gzcompress($report);
  $compress = true;
  }
  else
  {
  $compressed = false;
  }
 
  $length = strlen($report);// I presume this can handle 
 binary data
 
  //header( something );
 
  ?
 
 
 
 
 
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