On Wed, June 29, 2005 2:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I have page with PHP and Javascript code and I need to a link or bottun in
it to save its content to a plain text file. (I'm using an apache server
in a machine running Windows 2003, and I want to be able to use this
feature in IE 6 and Mozilla 1.7)
I saw some information about how to do that with PHP, but I wasn't able to
do it.
Can some one help me with that?
?php
header(Content-type: application/octet-stream);
?
Any browser that does *NOT* do a download with that, is a badly-broken
browser indeed.
There are a bunch of Microsoft-only types who recommend some other
Content-type which just plain DOES NOT WORK on anything but IE. Surprised?
Don't be. That's how Microsoft encourages incompatible software to
retain market share.
There are other headers you can send that some browser will use to choose
the name of the file in the popup dialog where the user chooses to safe
the download. These headers DO NOT WORK in *all* browsers, only some.
If you want to be CERTAIN the download filename is what you want, then
make sure your URL looks like a static URL to the filename you want.
Specifically, convert a URL like:
http://example.com/download.php?filename=whatever.xyz
into:
http://example.com/download/whatever.xyz
You can do this by using .htaccess:
Files download
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
/Files
to force Apache to treat download as a PHP script, even though it has
no .php in the filename.
Within your download script (nee download.php) you can use:
$_SERVER['PATHINFO'];
to access /whatever.xyz and use *THAT instead of $_GET['filename'] to
determine what file to download.
I posted an include file some time ago that makes it easy to translate
PATHINFO into an array $_PATH, which you treat pretty much like $_GET.
The only caveat is that $_GET is a SuperGlobal and I can't make $_PATH be
a SuperGlobal from within a PHP script. :-(
Search this group for my name and PATHINFO and that script ought to turn
up...
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