Re: [PHP] Save to Desktop
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 11:14:04AM +0530, Sharat Hegde wrote:
Hello,
I need to capture the contents of a Form into a text file format and
automatically allow the user to Save the file to his desktop.
Here is what I am intending to do:
* Capture the form contents and save to a temporary file. This works fine.
* Provide some method of the user automatically downloading this. How do I
get this download to happen?
I want the screen which says Open File or Save to come up and then the
user can basically save to his desktop.
It's not even necessary to save the form data to a file on the server
if you're just going to remove it after the user downloads the text
file. The key to this is knowing the proper HTTP headers to send, to
inform the browser that it should download a file. Then simply print
the desired form data to stdout, and it'll be fed into the file that
the user saves.
For example:
?
if ($action == 'Get Text File')
{
// Tell the browser to display a 'save file' dialog
Header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
Header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=formdata.txt');
// Print the text to be sent as formdata.txt
echo First text field: $firstfield\n;
echo Second text field: $secondfield\n;
exit;
}
?
form method=post action=?= $PHP_SELF ?
First: input type=text name=firstfieldbr
Seond: input type=text name=secondfieldbr
input type=submit name=action value=Get Text File
/form
Here, the form takes in two text strings, and offers them to the
browser as a file.
Matt
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RE: [PHP] Save to Desktop
Hi Matt,
Thanks. That was very useful and it worked like a gem!
Three cheers to HTTP headers. Where do you get a simplified version of the
HTTP Header documentation - The W3C specs do not look like interesting
reading.
Regards,
Sharat Hegde
Phone: 6560360 Ext 4680
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From: Matt McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 2:25 PM
To: Sharat Hegde
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Subject: Re: [PHP] Save to Desktop
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 11:14:04AM +0530, Sharat Hegde wrote:
Hello,
I need to capture the contents of a Form into a text file format and
automatically allow the user to Save the file to his desktop.
Here is what I am intending to do:
* Capture the form contents and save to a temporary file. This works fine.
* Provide some method of the user automatically downloading this. How do I
get this download to happen?
I want the screen which says Open File or Save to come up and then the
user can basically save to his desktop.
It's not even necessary to save the form data to a file on the server
if you're just going to remove it after the user downloads the text
file. The key to this is knowing the proper HTTP headers to send, to
inform the browser that it should download a file. Then simply print
the desired form data to stdout, and it'll be fed into the file that
the user saves.
For example:
?
if ($action == 'Get Text File')
{
// Tell the browser to display a 'save file' dialog
Header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
Header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=formdata.txt');
// Print the text to be sent as formdata.txt
echo First text field: $firstfield\n;
echo Second text field: $secondfield\n;
exit;
}
?
form method=post action=?= $PHP_SELF ?
First: input type=text name=firstfieldbr
Seond: input type=text name=secondfieldbr
input type=submit name=action value=Get Text File
/form
Here, the form takes in two text strings, and offers them to the
browser as a file.
Matt
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[PHP] Save to Desktop
Hello, I need to capture the contents of a Form into a text file format and automatically allow the user to Save the file to his desktop. Here is what I am intending to do: * Capture the form contents and save to a temporary file. This works fine. * Provide some method of the user automatically downloading this. How do I get this download to happen? I want the screen which says Open File or Save to come up and then the user can basically save to his desktop. Can anyone help and suggest how do get the Form contents saved to the Desktop? Thanks for your help. With Regards, Sharat * Disclaimer: The information in this e-mail and any attachments is confidential / privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee or addressees. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message, you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. Please advise immediately if you or your employer does not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. * -- 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]
