Re: [PHP] Re: force download in IE -- conclusion
I have had success getting IE 5.5 for PC recognising the suggested
filename by changing the content type to something other than
application/octet-stream. If it was left as that for IE 5.5(which the
script snippet indicates) it would tend to take the filename of the
script that executed it, or HTML file where the link to the script was
located.
I have been using the forced download for txt and pdf files, dynamically
generated with PHP of course, for about 2 years. It is a pain in the ass
to figure out the correct combinations for every different IE browser.
Luckily it is a campus only system and the users are on PC or Linux.
Oh, and there is a bug if you try to force download in IE over an SSL
connection WHEN USING SESSIONS. I stumbled accross someone working on
the SquirrelMail project who found a solution. You just have to send
these two extra headers to get IE force these downloads over SSL
if (ereg(MSIE, $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) {
header('Pragma: ');
header('Cache-Control: cache');
}
That one had me stumped for 2 years and I had to bail out of the sessions
and pass everything through the URL to force a download.
Hope that helps too.
Tim Frank
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On 22/08/01, 5:47:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pierre-Yves) wrote regarding
Re: [PHP] Re: force download in IE -- conclusion:
I worked on a script like yours for a looong time now!
I need to force the download of various type of file, doc, pdf, zip, even
html!
Your script works fine on Opera 5.02 and netscape 4.76 on my win NT 4.0
box,
but
not on IE 5.5 On this one, it offers me to download the script file but
instead of being
a php file it has now an html extension !!
Anyhow, I do have a download by email attachment button also, because I
gave
up on trying
to find a script to force download
py
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From: David Minor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 4:10 PM
Subject: [PHP] Re: force download in IE -- conclusion
I ran some tests of different header configurations of 6 browser/platform
combinations to find out what worked and what didn't. I didn't cover all
of
the platforms available, just those that my user-base uses, so this isn't
complete.
combinations tested was IE5.5, NN4, NN6 for Windows 98 and IE5.5, NN4.7
for
Mac 9.1. I tested all of these browsers using/not using 'attachment' in
the
Content-Disposition header. and also changed out the Content-Type header
with 'application/octet-stream', 'application/download', and '*/*'.
Here's the summary and what I did to make things work as well as
possible.
My goal is to prompt the user with a save-as dialog for an mp3 file.
IE5.5 for Mac always uses the quicktime plugin to play the file no matter
what the disposition or type is. (also no matter what the file extension
is. Couldn't figure out how to trick it to download the file.)
IE5.5 for Win98 would attempt to download the file if
(content-disposition:
attachment; filename=) attachment was there.
All 3 of the Win98 browsers would do prompt with as few clicks as
possible
when content-type was application/octet-stream. Therefore, I test in
my
script for the Mac users and give them Content-type:
application/downlaod
while I give other users Content-Type: application/octet-stream. Of
course, this doesn't help the IE5.5 Mac users who still have to use
Downlaod Link to Disk routine to get a save-as prompt.
Anyone who sees different ways this could be done, please respond.
Here's my code:
if (eregi(mac,$HTTP_USER_AGENT))
$type = application/download;
else
$type = application/octet-stream;
// stream file to user
header(Content-Type: $type);
header(Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename);
header(Content-Length: .filesize($tmp_file));
header(Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary);
readfile($tmp_file);
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[PHP] Re: force download in IE
Some versions of IE will sniff the file to determine what type it is rather than taking your word for it that you REALLY want to download the file. From my memory this is IE 4, and IE 5.5 where this is a problem. The way I dealt with this is to totally make up an application type that IE will not have a helper app for... such as new/type or whatever you want. This should then trick IE into forcing a download. The other trick I noted was that IE 5.5 doesn't like the attachement keyword in the Content-Disposition header. Don't ask me why, all I know is that it won't pick up the supplied filename if you include it. That is from my experiences in forcing download files and it seems to work out once you figure out every combination of what does/doesn't work for the various versions of IE. Netscape is always fine, and I haven't tried any others extensively. Fiddle with the various headers for the different IE browsers and you will get it to work. Tim Frank Original Message On 20/08/01, 1:45:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Minor) wrote regarding Re: force download in IE: on 8/20/01 12:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This gave the same result: it launches the helper app. Please help!! Regards. dm Have you tried this? header(Content-Type: application/x-octet-stream); header(Content-Description: MP3 file); David Minor wrote: Can anybody tell me why this doesn't work in IE? I need to force download mp3 files instead of IE5.5 trying to apply a helper app. This code works fine for NN. // detect for MSIE bug if (strstr($HTTP_USER_AGENT, MSIE)) $attachment = ; else $attachment = attachment;; // stream file to user header(Content-Type: application/octet-stream); header(Content-Disposition:$attachment filename=$filename); header(Content-Length: .filesize($tmp_file)); header(Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary); readfile($tmp_file); -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] Re: Export to Excel
Jorge, I pieced together a way to do this from other suggestions I found on the mailing list and elsewhere. This is more of a trick to get Excel to think it has an Excel file, but it doesn't truly generate an Excel file. Thanks to Excel versions 97 and up (don't recall 95) having nice little HTML import abilities we can trick it into loading a plain old HTML table and treating it as an Excel file. Here is how you do it. The following headers will let you throw the file for download so the client can save it to their computer. Just name it with .xls and then when they try to open it Excel will automatically convert it from HTML. You can change this to inline if you want IE to display it in the browser. header(Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel; name='excel'); header(Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=filename.xls); Now, as far as the data goes, it's simple, just make your run of the mill HTML table. The usual for loop for database records will do, and you will just end up with something like this table tr tdColumn with Text/td tdColumn with Numbers/td tdColumn with Numbers/Text with leading zeros/td /tr tr tdI am text/td td1,500.00/td td=0012/td /tr /table When Excel loads that it will make a 3 column sheet and fill in the data. Any cells you want to keep with leading zerios you use =0012 in the HTML table as the data. Otherwise the column will be treated as numeric when it is loaded. Text stays as text. There are some tricks as well where you can store forumlas in the actual HTML table cells so when the sheet is loaded it would calculate the sum, avg, whatever of the columns or sheet. I don't recall how to do that off the top of my head but I think you just plugged in regular formulae into the HTML table cells. Try it if you need it. From there the user might have to set some data types for some columns as I don't think they can be set. You might want to check some of the help on MS Excel 2K or XP as I'm very sure the HTML capabilities are much more advanced than with 97 which we still use. I hope that helps everyone out a little. There are limitations with this method, but to just get a file that someone can safely open in Excel, it is a very convenient way to do it rather than having to muck around with binary files. Have a good weekend, Tim Frank Original Message On 7/13/01, 12:58:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jorge Alvarez) wrote regarding Export to Excel: One of my clients is requesting me to export some data from PHP-generated pages to MS Excel files. I have no clue on how to do such export with PHP. I'm using PHP/Apache/Linux Mandrake. What options do I have? Your help is very appreciated. Regards, Jorge Alvarez -- Let your screen saver contribute to cancer research. http://members.ud.com/vypc/cancer/ A new way to help. Sponsored by Intel. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] mail() implementation problem
Mathieu, I believe the feature you are looking for has been made available in the new PHP 4.0.5 that is upcoming. They have added a 5th paramether to the mail() function so you can actually pass sendmail command line arguments such as -f. For those of us not running the development version, someone was kind enough to post a really good work around that isn't hard and gives the same functionality. I won't post it here, but it can be found as the last of the user comments at http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php dated March 9th at 5:02 am. I implemented this on my servers and it works great. You do have to add the one line to the scripts that use the mail function, but that is really it after sendmail is configured. Hope that was what you were looking for. Tim Frank Original Message On 16/03/01, 5:05:13 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mathieu Arnold) wrote regarding Re: [PHP] mail() implementation problem: Manuel Lemos wrote: Hello, Mathieu Arnold wrote: Hi The actual implementation of the mail fonction use sendmail -t and relies on sendmail to parse the headers to get the recipients. It would be great if it was possible to switch from this way of using sendmail to a more classic sendmail -f sender rcpt it should be quite easy, but I lack time to do it. You may want to try this PHP MIME message composing and sending class that has subclasses for sending messages using directly sendmail, qmail or even a SMTP server. http://phpclasses.UpperDesign.com/browse.html/package/9 looks nice, but I'm not going to ask all my clients to change their php scripts ;) I just need to change the way php calls sendmail :) I believe I'm going to do it myself next week or so. -- Mathieu Arnold -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Creative solution with XML,PHP,MYSQL
Siim, You can do this with a combination of XML and XSL. I remember a demo from Microsoft's XML area that did exactly what you ask: Click a column and have it sort. I believe it was an example having to do with Stock listings. Basically XSL lets you use come programming/looping constructs when displaying data from an XML file. The downside is that it currently only works with IE 5 and greater. It might not be the best overall solution, but if you are looking at the issue from a "can it be done" point of view, then yes, it can actually be done. It just might not be usable. Tim Frank Original Message On 17/02/01, 9:23:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Siim Einfeldt aka Itpunk) wrote regarding [PHP] Creative solution with XML,PHP,MYSQL: Hi everybody, I want to implement ordering something on a website without refreshing the page. Lets say i have four columns in the html table - name,age,skill and phone. All these are links - under these are the information, eg: Name Age Skill Phone Siim 23 php 051... Tony 18 html 132... Now, when i click on the name, it should order the listings by name, if I click on the age, I get the listing ordered by age and etc,etc. Generally it is easy to do it, but how to do it without refreshing the page every time I want to order by something else? It should be possible with XML; I get the data from mysql database with php, I write it into an array and ... now how could I make it function the way I just described? Could someone point me some already written code or explain me in detail how to do it? Thank you, Siim Einfeldt PS: Sorry about sending this message to so many lists, but I haven`t seen this kind of code anywhere, but at the same time I know it is possible. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] .php3 in PHP4?
Or you could just put them all on one line like
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 .php4 .phtml
if you prefer.
Tim Frank
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On 17/02/01, 10:48:18 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Ifrim Sorin") wrote regarding
Re: [PHP] .php3 in PHP4?:
Hello,
I think this is rather a Web server issue.
In Apache, just add in your conf file a line for each extension :
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php3
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php4
AddType application/x-httpd-php .phtml
HTH
Sorin Ifrim
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From: Jeff Gannaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 12:39 PM
Subject: [PHP] .php3 in PHP4?
Can I configure PHP4 for to process .php .php4 .php3 and .phtml ??
I'm a first timer to configuring the PHP engine, so a few detials on how
to
would be appreciated as well.
Thanks,
Jeff Gannaway
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Re: [PHP] FDF Toolkit uncompression error
Kurt,
I fought with this same problem for about an hour today. For me there
was something changed when the file was downloaded that made it
corrupt... I think it was a LF to a CR + LF or something. I tried Dling
the file with Lynx on a linux machine and it was still corrupt. My fix
was to DL the file on a windows machine and then FTP the file to my unix
box in ASCII mode (NOT BINARY). I don't know why or what was causing the
problem, but that is how I fixed it.
Now I'm trying to install it ;)
Hope that helps
Tim Frank
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On 05/02/01, 8:10:18 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Kurt R. Hoehn") wrote
regarding [PHP] FDF Toolkit uncompression error:
Hello,
I've downloaded the FDF toolkit from adobe (fdftk4_05_C.tar.Z) and it
doesn't uncompress. I've noticed that other people are using it. Has
anyone else experianced this same problem and if so what was your work
around.
Thank You
Kurt
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