RE: [PHP] Backup to local drive
At 3:04 PM -0700 12/11/09, Ben Miller wrote: That's exactly why I need something that will put all the needed files directly onto the flash drive - to take that responsibility away from the user. Pulling the data from the DB and creating the folder structure is easy with PHP - just not sure how to copy that folder structure and related files to the flash drive without the user having to know much of anything about computers. Was hoping there is maybe a PHP extension that I didn't know about, but sounds like a client side is going to be my best bet. What you describe is an application that would run client-side. PHP will not be able to help you, nor will javascript for neither have that capability. If the problem were mine, I would use Java to do this. Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
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Two words: Java Applet.. That's the stuff that Facebook and other social sites do stuff like this, Although I've only seen it for upload. One thing perhaps you can do is have the applet command the browser to save the page as a complete web page onto the flash drive. it's cross platform and cross browser compatible... Also, maybe with some JQuery plugins you can have what you need. Hoping that inspires/helps, Carl. Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 16:52 -0600, Joseph Thayne wrote: PHP cannot create a folder structure on your local machine. I don't think Javascript or VBScript can either. Your best bet is with the zip files. Windows users have it fairly simple actually (as much as I hate to admit it) as all they would have to do is right-click and Extract. You can always include instructions in either an on-screen format or a README file (or both). As I have been thinking about it, you are going to need to do a zip file so that the user only has to download a single file. Joseph Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 15:04 -0700, Ben Miller wrote: That’s exactly why I need something that will put all the needed files directly onto the flash drive �C to take that responsibility away from the user. Pulling the data from the DB and creating the folder structure is easy with PHP �C just not sure how to copy that folder structure and related files to the flash drive without the user having to know much of anything about computers. Was hoping there is maybe a PHP extension that I didn’t know about, but sounds like a client side is going to be my best bet. From: Ashley Sheridan [mailto:a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk] Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 2:39 PM To: Ben Miller Cc: 'Roberto'; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Backup to local drive On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 14:36 -0700, Ben Miller wrote: Too much reliance on the user knowing how to extract the files to the flash drive �C need something that does it all for them so all they have to do is insert the flash drive on their own computer to store the preformatted presentation and then insert into a prospect’s computer and either a) (preferred) run the presentation via an autoplay command or b) open the presentation.html file. Ben From: Ashley Sheridan [mailto:a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk] Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 2:25 PM To: Ben Miller Cc: 'Roberto'; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Backup to local drive On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 14:25 -0700, Ben Miller wrote: Users would be updating data via form input (address, tel, product catalogues, etc.) as well as uploading files (images, PDFs, etc.), creating their own presentations and saving those presentations to a flash drive as HTML files with calls to the images/PDFs so that they can simply plug their drive into a USB port and present the info on the road, regardless of connection to the internet. Ben -Original Message- From: Roberto [mailto:prof...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 11:58 AM To: Ben Miller Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Backup to local drive Hi, you lost me a bit. Let say a user uploads a PDF file to one of your servers. What do you mean when you say I want the users to be able to save the HTML output of their data?!? Roberto Aloi http://aloiroberto.wordpress.com Twitter: @prof3ta On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Ben Miller biprel...@gmail.com wrote: Hello - I have an application I'm building that allows users to store personal information and files (images, PDFs, etc.) in our database, but I need a way for them to be able to save the HTML output of that personal data to a local (for the user) flash drive. I'm guessing I'm going to need a clientSide language like javascript for this, but was wondering if maybe there was a PHP addon or something like that for downloading content to the user's PC. Thanks in advance. Ben Why not create all the HTML files and images on the server, and zip it up then send that down to the user? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk That could end up in a lot of HTML and image files. Also, if you can't rely on people to unzip a file, can you rely on them to know that they need to keep the images with the HTML? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk PHP can't do anything like that, PHP is all on the server. Javascript doesn't have anything like that either, but JScript and VBScript do I believe, although that limits you to only Internet Explorer, and only if the user has allowed the unsafe actions. Your best bet is to maybe try to use a format that keeps it all in one file, such as a PDF. Another solution would be to have the HTML reference
Re: [PHP] Backup to local drive
If you are wanting to save the information as a PDF (formatted the same as the HTML page), check out tcpdf at www.tcpdf.org. It is fairly simple to implement and can interpret an HTML page causing it to be saved as PDF. Joseph Ben Miller wrote: Hello - I have an application I'm building that allows users to store personal information and files (images, PDFs, etc.) in our database, but I need a way for them to be able to save the HTML output of that personal data to a local (for the user) flash drive. I'm guessing I'm going to need a clientSide language like javascript for this, but was wondering if maybe there was a PHP addon or something like that for downloading content to the user's PC. Thanks in advance. Ben -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Backup to local drive
Hi, you lost me a bit. Let say a user uploads a PDF file to one of your servers. What do you mean when you say I want the users to be able to save the HTML output of their data?!? Roberto Aloi http://aloiroberto.wordpress.com Twitter: @prof3ta On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Ben Miller biprel...@gmail.com wrote: Hello - I have an application I'm building that allows users to store personal information and files (images, PDFs, etc.) in our database, but I need a way for them to be able to save the HTML output of that personal data to a local (for the user) flash drive. I'm guessing I'm going to need a clientSide language like javascript for this, but was wondering if maybe there was a PHP addon or something like that for downloading content to the user's PC. Thanks in advance. Ben -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Backup to local drive
Users would be updating data via form input (address, tel, product catalogues, etc.) as well as uploading files (images, PDFs, etc.), creating their own presentations and saving those presentations to a flash drive as HTML files with calls to the images/PDFs so that they can simply plug their drive into a USB port and present the info on the road, regardless of connection to the internet. Ben -Original Message- From: Roberto [mailto:prof...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 11:58 AM To: Ben Miller Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Backup to local drive Hi, you lost me a bit. Let say a user uploads a PDF file to one of your servers. What do you mean when you say I want the users to be able to save the HTML output of their data?!? Roberto Aloi http://aloiroberto.wordpress.com Twitter: @prof3ta On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Ben Miller biprel...@gmail.com wrote: Hello - I have an application I'm building that allows users to store personal information and files (images, PDFs, etc.) in our database, but I need a way for them to be able to save the HTML output of that personal data to a local (for the user) flash drive. I'm guessing I'm going to need a clientSide language like javascript for this, but was wondering if maybe there was a PHP addon or something like that for downloading content to the user's PC. Thanks in advance. Ben -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Backup to local drive
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 14:25 -0700, Ben Miller wrote: Users would be updating data via form input (address, tel, product catalogues, etc.) as well as uploading files (images, PDFs, etc.), creating their own presentations and saving those presentations to a flash drive as HTML files with calls to the images/PDFs so that they can simply plug their drive into a USB port and present the info on the road, regardless of connection to the internet. Ben -Original Message- From: Roberto [mailto:prof...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 11:58 AM To: Ben Miller Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Backup to local drive Hi, you lost me a bit. Let say a user uploads a PDF file to one of your servers. What do you mean when you say I want the users to be able to save the HTML output of their data?!? Roberto Aloi http://aloiroberto.wordpress.com Twitter: @prof3ta On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Ben Miller biprel...@gmail.com wrote: Hello - I have an application I'm building that allows users to store personal information and files (images, PDFs, etc.) in our database, but I need a way for them to be able to save the HTML output of that personal data to a local (for the user) flash drive. I'm guessing I'm going to need a clientSide language like javascript for this, but was wondering if maybe there was a PHP addon or something like that for downloading content to the user's PC. Thanks in advance. Ben Why not create all the HTML files and images on the server, and zip it up then send that down to the user? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
RE: [PHP] Backup to local drive
Too much reliance on the user knowing how to extract the files to the flash drive – need something that does it all for them so all they have to do is insert the flash drive on their own computer to store the preformatted presentation and then insert into a prospect’s computer and either a) (preferred) run the presentation via an autoplay command or b) open the presentation.html file. Ben From: Ashley Sheridan [mailto:a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk] Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 2:25 PM To: Ben Miller Cc: 'Roberto'; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Backup to local drive On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 14:25 -0700, Ben Miller wrote: Users would be updating data via form input (address, tel, product catalogues, etc.) as well as uploading files (images, PDFs, etc.), creating their own presentations and saving those presentations to a flash drive as HTML files with calls to the images/PDFs so that they can simply plug their drive into a USB port and present the info on the road, regardless of connection to the internet. Ben -Original Message- From: Roberto [mailto:prof...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 11:58 AM To: Ben Miller Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Backup to local drive Hi, you lost me a bit. Let say a user uploads a PDF file to one of your servers. What do you mean when you say I want the users to be able to save the HTML output of their data?!? Roberto Aloi http://aloiroberto.wordpress.com Twitter: @prof3ta On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Ben Miller biprel...@gmail.com wrote: Hello - I have an application I'm building that allows users to store personal information and files (images, PDFs, etc.) in our database, but I need a way for them to be able to save the HTML output of that personal data to a local (for the user) flash drive. I'm guessing I'm going to need a clientSide language like javascript for this, but was wondering if maybe there was a PHP addon or something like that for downloading content to the user's PC. Thanks in advance. Ben Why not create all the HTML files and images on the server, and zip it up then send that down to the user? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
RE: [PHP] Backup to local drive
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 14:36 -0700, Ben Miller wrote: Too much reliance on the user knowing how to extract the files to the flash drive – need something that does it all for them so all they have to do is insert the flash drive on their own computer to store the preformatted presentation and then insert into a prospect’s computer and either a) (preferred) run the presentation via an autoplay command or b) open the presentation.html file. Ben From: Ashley Sheridan [mailto:a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk] Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 2:25 PM To: Ben Miller Cc: 'Roberto'; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Backup to local drive On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 14:25 -0700, Ben Miller wrote: Users would be updating data via form input (address, tel, product catalogues, etc.) as well as uploading files (images, PDFs, etc.), creating their own presentations and saving those presentations to a flash drive as HTML files with calls to the images/PDFs so that they can simply plug their drive into a USB port and present the info on the road, regardless of connection to the internet. Ben -Original Message- From: Roberto [mailto:prof...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 11:58 AM To: Ben Miller Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Backup to local drive Hi, you lost me a bit. Let say a user uploads a PDF file to one of your servers. What do you mean when you say I want the users to be able to save the HTML output of their data?!? Roberto Aloi http://aloiroberto.wordpress.com Twitter: @prof3ta On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Ben Miller biprel...@gmail.com wrote: Hello - I have an application I'm building that allows users to store personal information and files (images, PDFs, etc.) in our database, but I need a way for them to be able to save the HTML output of that personal data to a local (for the user) flash drive. I'm guessing I'm going to need a clientSide language like javascript for this, but was wondering if maybe there was a PHP addon or something like that for downloading content to the user's PC. Thanks in advance. Ben Why not create all the HTML files and images on the server, and zip it up then send that down to the user? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk That could end up in a lot of HTML and image files. Also, if you can't rely on people to unzip a file, can you rely on them to know that they need to keep the images with the HTML? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
RE: [PHP] Backup to local drive
That’s exactly why I need something that will put all the needed files directly onto the flash drive – to take that responsibility away from the user. Pulling the data from the DB and creating the folder structure is easy with PHP – just not sure how to copy that folder structure and related files to the flash drive without the user having to know much of anything about computers. Was hoping there is maybe a PHP extension that I didn’t know about, but sounds like a client side is going to be my best bet. From: Ashley Sheridan [mailto:a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk] Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 2:39 PM To: Ben Miller Cc: 'Roberto'; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Backup to local drive On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 14:36 -0700, Ben Miller wrote: Too much reliance on the user knowing how to extract the files to the flash drive – need something that does it all for them so all they have to do is insert the flash drive on their own computer to store the preformatted presentation and then insert into a prospect’s computer and either a) (preferred) run the presentation via an autoplay command or b) open the presentation.html file. Ben From: Ashley Sheridan [mailto:a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk] Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 2:25 PM To: Ben Miller Cc: 'Roberto'; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Backup to local drive On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 14:25 -0700, Ben Miller wrote: Users would be updating data via form input (address, tel, product catalogues, etc.) as well as uploading files (images, PDFs, etc.), creating their own presentations and saving those presentations to a flash drive as HTML files with calls to the images/PDFs so that they can simply plug their drive into a USB port and present the info on the road, regardless of connection to the internet. Ben -Original Message- From: Roberto [mailto:prof...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 11:58 AM To: Ben Miller Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Backup to local drive Hi, you lost me a bit. Let say a user uploads a PDF file to one of your servers. What do you mean when you say I want the users to be able to save the HTML output of their data?!? Roberto Aloi http://aloiroberto.wordpress.com Twitter: @prof3ta On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Ben Miller biprel...@gmail.com wrote: Hello - I have an application I'm building that allows users to store personal information and files (images, PDFs, etc.) in our database, but I need a way for them to be able to save the HTML output of that personal data to a local (for the user) flash drive. I'm guessing I'm going to need a clientSide language like javascript for this, but was wondering if maybe there was a PHP addon or something like that for downloading content to the user's PC. Thanks in advance. Ben Why not create all the HTML files and images on the server, and zip it up then send that down to the user? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk That could end up in a lot of HTML and image files. Also, if you can't rely on people to unzip a file, can you rely on them to know that they need to keep the images with the HTML? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
RE: [PHP] Backup to local drive
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 15:04 -0700, Ben Miller wrote: That’s exactly why I need something that will put all the needed files directly onto the flash drive – to take that responsibility away from the user. Pulling the data from the DB and creating the folder structure is easy with PHP – just not sure how to copy that folder structure and related files to the flash drive without the user having to know much of anything about computers. Was hoping there is maybe a PHP extension that I didn’t know about, but sounds like a client side is going to be my best bet. From: Ashley Sheridan [mailto:a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk] Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 2:39 PM To: Ben Miller Cc: 'Roberto'; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Backup to local drive On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 14:36 -0700, Ben Miller wrote: Too much reliance on the user knowing how to extract the files to the flash drive – need something that does it all for them so all they have to do is insert the flash drive on their own computer to store the preformatted presentation and then insert into a prospect’s computer and either a) (preferred) run the presentation via an autoplay command or b) open the presentation.html file. Ben From: Ashley Sheridan [mailto:a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk] Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 2:25 PM To: Ben Miller Cc: 'Roberto'; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Backup to local drive On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 14:25 -0700, Ben Miller wrote: Users would be updating data via form input (address, tel, product catalogues, etc.) as well as uploading files (images, PDFs, etc.), creating their own presentations and saving those presentations to a flash drive as HTML files with calls to the images/PDFs so that they can simply plug their drive into a USB port and present the info on the road, regardless of connection to the internet. Ben -Original Message- From: Roberto [mailto:prof...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 11:58 AM To: Ben Miller Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Backup to local drive Hi, you lost me a bit. Let say a user uploads a PDF file to one of your servers. What do you mean when you say I want the users to be able to save the HTML output of their data?!? Roberto Aloi http://aloiroberto.wordpress.com Twitter: @prof3ta On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Ben Miller biprel...@gmail.com wrote: Hello - I have an application I'm building that allows users to store personal information and files (images, PDFs, etc.) in our database, but I need a way for them to be able to save the HTML output of that personal data to a local (for the user) flash drive. I'm guessing I'm going to need a clientSide language like javascript for this, but was wondering if maybe there was a PHP addon or something like that for downloading content to the user's PC. Thanks in advance. Ben Why not create all the HTML files and images on the server, and zip it up then send that down to the user? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk That could end up in a lot of HTML and image files. Also, if you can't rely on people to unzip a file, can you rely on them to know that they need to keep the images with the HTML? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk PHP can't do anything like that, PHP is all on the server. Javascript doesn't have anything like that either, but JScript and VBScript do I believe, although that limits you to only Internet Explorer, and only if the user has allowed the unsafe actions. Your best bet is to maybe try to use a format that keeps it all in one file, such as a PDF. Another solution would be to have the HTML reference the images from your own hosting, and put the entire presentation in one file. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
Re: [PHP] Backup to local drive
PHP cannot create a folder structure on your local machine. I don't think Javascript or VBScript can either. Your best bet is with the zip files. Windows users have it fairly simple actually (as much as I hate to admit it) as all they would have to do is right-click and Extract. You can always include instructions in either an on-screen format or a README file (or both). As I have been thinking about it, you are going to need to do a zip file so that the user only has to download a single file. Joseph Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 15:04 -0700, Ben Miller wrote: That’s exactly why I need something that will put all the needed files directly onto the flash drive – to take that responsibility away from the user. Pulling the data from the DB and creating the folder structure is easy with PHP – just not sure how to copy that folder structure and related files to the flash drive without the user having to know much of anything about computers. Was hoping there is maybe a PHP extension that I didn’t know about, but sounds like a client side is going to be my best bet. From: Ashley Sheridan [mailto:a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk] Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 2:39 PM To: Ben Miller Cc: 'Roberto'; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Backup to local drive On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 14:36 -0700, Ben Miller wrote: Too much reliance on the user knowing how to extract the files to the flash drive – need something that does it all for them so all they have to do is insert the flash drive on their own computer to store the preformatted presentation and then insert into a prospect’s computer and either a) (preferred) run the presentation via an autoplay command or b) open the presentation.html file. Ben From: Ashley Sheridan [mailto:a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk] Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 2:25 PM To: Ben Miller Cc: 'Roberto'; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Backup to local drive On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 14:25 -0700, Ben Miller wrote: Users would be updating data via form input (address, tel, product catalogues, etc.) as well as uploading files (images, PDFs, etc.), creating their own presentations and saving those presentations to a flash drive as HTML files with calls to the images/PDFs so that they can simply plug their drive into a USB port and present the info on the road, regardless of connection to the internet. Ben -Original Message- From: Roberto [mailto:prof...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 11:58 AM To: Ben Miller Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Backup to local drive Hi, you lost me a bit. Let say a user uploads a PDF file to one of your servers. What do you mean when you say I want the users to be able to save the HTML output of their data?!? Roberto Aloi http://aloiroberto.wordpress.com Twitter: @prof3ta On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Ben Miller biprel...@gmail.com wrote: Hello - I have an application I'm building that allows users to store personal information and files (images, PDFs, etc.) in our database, but I need a way for them to be able to save the HTML output of that personal data to a local (for the user) flash drive. I'm guessing I'm going to need a clientSide language like javascript for this, but was wondering if maybe there was a PHP addon or something like that for downloading content to the user's PC. Thanks in advance. Ben Why not create all the HTML files and images on the server, and zip it up then send that down to the user? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk That could end up in a lot of HTML and image files. Also, if you can't rely on people to unzip a file, can you rely on them to know that they need to keep the images with the HTML? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk PHP can't do anything like that, PHP is all on the server. Javascript doesn't have anything like that either, but JScript and VBScript do I believe, although that limits you to only Internet Explorer, and only if the user has allowed the unsafe actions. Your best bet is to maybe try to use a format that keeps it all in one file, such as a PDF. Another solution would be to have the HTML reference the images from your own hosting, and put the entire presentation in one file. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
Re: [PHP] Backup to local drive
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 16:52 -0600, Joseph Thayne wrote: PHP cannot create a folder structure on your local machine. I don't think Javascript or VBScript can either. Your best bet is with the zip files. Windows users have it fairly simple actually (as much as I hate to admit it) as all they would have to do is right-click and Extract. You can always include instructions in either an on-screen format or a README file (or both). As I have been thinking about it, you are going to need to do a zip file so that the user only has to download a single file. Joseph Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 15:04 -0700, Ben Miller wrote: That’s exactly why I need something that will put all the needed files directly onto the flash drive – to take that responsibility away from the user. Pulling the data from the DB and creating the folder structure is easy with PHP – just not sure how to copy that folder structure and related files to the flash drive without the user having to know much of anything about computers. Was hoping there is maybe a PHP extension that I didn’t know about, but sounds like a client side is going to be my best bet. From: Ashley Sheridan [mailto:a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk] Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 2:39 PM To: Ben Miller Cc: 'Roberto'; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Backup to local drive On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 14:36 -0700, Ben Miller wrote: Too much reliance on the user knowing how to extract the files to the flash drive – need something that does it all for them so all they have to do is insert the flash drive on their own computer to store the preformatted presentation and then insert into a prospect’s computer and either a) (preferred) run the presentation via an autoplay command or b) open the presentation.html file. Ben From: Ashley Sheridan [mailto:a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk] Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 2:25 PM To: Ben Miller Cc: 'Roberto'; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Backup to local drive On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 14:25 -0700, Ben Miller wrote: Users would be updating data via form input (address, tel, product catalogues, etc.) as well as uploading files (images, PDFs, etc.), creating their own presentations and saving those presentations to a flash drive as HTML files with calls to the images/PDFs so that they can simply plug their drive into a USB port and present the info on the road, regardless of connection to the internet. Ben -Original Message- From: Roberto [mailto:prof...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 11:58 AM To: Ben Miller Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Backup to local drive Hi, you lost me a bit. Let say a user uploads a PDF file to one of your servers. What do you mean when you say I want the users to be able to save the HTML output of their data?!? Roberto Aloi http://aloiroberto.wordpress.com Twitter: @prof3ta On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Ben Miller biprel...@gmail.com wrote: Hello - I have an application I'm building that allows users to store personal information and files (images, PDFs, etc.) in our database, but I need a way for them to be able to save the HTML output of that personal data to a local (for the user) flash drive. I'm guessing I'm going to need a clientSide language like javascript for this, but was wondering if maybe there was a PHP addon or something like that for downloading content to the user's PC. Thanks in advance. Ben Why not create all the HTML files and images on the server, and zip it up then send that down to the user? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk That could end up in a lot of HTML and image files. Also, if you can't rely on people to unzip a file, can you rely on them to know that they need to keep the images with the HTML? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk PHP can't do anything like that, PHP is all on the server. Javascript doesn't have anything like that either, but JScript and VBScript do I believe, although that limits you to only Internet Explorer, and only if the user has allowed the unsafe actions. Your best bet is to maybe try to use a format that keeps it all in one file, such as a PDF. Another solution would be to have the HTML reference the images from your own hosting, and put the entire presentation in one file. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk VBScript and JScript can definitely do it, as I've done something similar before. Javascript may not be able to. Don't confuse JScript with Javascript! One is for IE, the other is for everything else! Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
