Re: [PHP] problem generating a file link
George Pitcher wrote: Hi, I have a web page that only I see, and I want to link to a PDF file on a mapped drive so that it will open in Acrobat. I have tried variations on the following: $storelink = a href=\file://G:\\.$filename..pdf\ target=\_blank\PDF/a; and the link keeps coming out as: file:///G:/575991.pdf is that what the browser (let me guess: IE) is interpreting the link as or is that what is literally in the html source? So I have 3 x '/' and a '/' where I want a '\'. Can anyone tell me how to code this to get it right? MTIA Cheers George -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] problem generating a file link
Jochem, I have tried variations on the following: $storelink = a href=\file://G:\\.$filename..pdf\ target=\_blank\PDF/a; and the link keeps coming out as: file:///G:/575991.pdf is that what the browser (let me guess: IE) is interpreting the link as or is that what is literally in the html source? I'm using Smarty so the link doesn't appear as HTML as such. This is what the browser (guessed wrong - I'm using Firefox) shows in the status bar. George -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] problem generating a file link
Hi, I have a web page that only I see, and I want to link to a PDF file on a mapped drive so that it will open in Acrobat. I have tried variations on the following: $storelink = a href=\file://G:\\.$filename..pdf\ target=\_blank\PDF/a; and the link keeps coming out as: file:///G:/575991.pdf So I have 3 x '/' and a '/' where I want a '\'. Can anyone tell me how to code this to get it right? MTIA Cheers George -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] problem generating a file link
George Pitcher wrote: Jochem, I have tried variations on the following: $storelink = a href=\file://G:\\.$filename..pdf\ target=\_blank\PDF/a; and the link keeps coming out as: file:///G:/575991.pdf is that what the browser (let me guess: IE) is interpreting the link as or is that what is literally in the html source? I'm using Smarty so the link doesn't appear as HTML as such. can't see what Smarty has to do with - can't remember Smarty 'cleaning' file url's (at least not without being specifically asked). besides Smarty is just outputting HTML so I don't understand your comment. This is what the browser (guessed wrong - I'm using Firefox) shows in the status bar. ok, right - so what does the html source actually contain? I'm assuming that the way firefox is interpreting the link makes it not work? does the link work in IE? George -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] problem generating a file link
Jochem, This is what the browser (guessed wrong - I'm using Firefox) shows in the status bar. ok, right - so what does the html source actually contain? a href=file://G:\588012.pdf target=_blankPDF/a I'm assuming that the way firefox is interpreting the link makes it not work? does the link work in IE? I get exactly the same in IE6. Source is good, link is bad. Cheers George -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] problem generating a file link
George Pitcher wrote: Jochem, This is what the browser (guessed wrong - I'm using Firefox) shows in the status bar. ok, right - so what does the html source actually contain? a href=file://G:\588012.pdf target=_blankPDF/a so what happens when you make it like so: a href=file:///G:/588012.pdf target=_blankPDF/a ? I'm assuming that the way firefox is interpreting the link makes it not work? does the link work in IE? I get exactly the same in IE6. Source is good, link is bad. Cheers George -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] problem generating a file link
Jochem, This is what the browser (guessed wrong - I'm using Firefox) shows in the status bar. ok, right - so what does the html source actually contain? a href=file://G:\588012.pdf target=_blankPDF/a so what happens when you make it like so: a href=file:///G:/588012.pdf target=_blankPDF/a ? No change. George -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] problem generating a file link
There's nothing wrong with this. It's standard. I believe the logic of this is that the first two forward slashes represent the standard protocol indicator: http://, ftp://, file://, while the final forward slash represents a directory off the root directory, as a carry over from unix /tmp, /bin, /usr, etc. George Pitcher wrote: Jochem, I have tried variations on the following: $storelink = a href=\file://G:\\.$filename..pdf\ target=\_blank\PDF/a; and the link keeps coming out as: file:///G:/575991.pdf is that what the browser (let me guess: IE) is interpreting the link as or is that what is literally in the html source? I'm using Smarty so the link doesn't appear as HTML as such. This is what the browser (guessed wrong - I'm using Firefox) shows in the status bar. George -- _ Myron Turner http://www.room535.org http://www.bstatzero.org http://www.mturner.org/XML_PullParser/
