Use Header() ...
I remember it's something like :
header ("Location: http://yoursite.ext/yourfile.ext";);
Am I wrong ???
----- Original Message -----
From: Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Mark Heintz PHP Mailing Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: PHP-GENERAL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 11:18 PM
Subject: [PHP] More on: how to send a file to the user's browser?
> Hi Mark,
>
> It does not work. What it does is to echo the thing to the screen.
>
> How can I force the browser to download it with its original file name?
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Heintz PHP Mailing Lists" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "PHP-GENERAL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 5:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [PHP] how to send a file to the user's browser?
>
>
>
> A couple more headers than absolutely necessary, but this should work:
>
> <?php
> // open file and send to user
> if($fp = fopen($downloadfile, "r")){
> // output headers
> $downloadsize = filesize($downloadfile);
> header ( "Expires: Mon, 1 Apr 1974 05:00:00 GMT" );
> header ( "Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D,d M YH:i:s T") );
> header ( "Pragma: no-cache" );
> header ( "Content-type: application/octet-stream; name=$downloadfile" );
> header ( "Content-length: $downloadsize" );
> header ( "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="$downloadfile" );
> // read out file
> fpassthru($fp);
> fclose($fp);
> } else {
> // can't open file
> }
> ?>
>
>
> mh.
>
>
> On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I've got a script that generates a txt file, compresses it into a Zip
file
> and it all happens on a directory that is out of apache's web site.
> >
> > This script generates the file based on MySQL server information and I
> have it then sent to the user's e-mail address. What I would like to do is
> to make the PHP script "throw" the file to the user's browser so that it
> would download it automatically. This file is created on a directory that
is
> not the same as the web server where the pages and php scripts are
located.
> >
> > Anyone could help me with that?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes
> > Linux User #207984
> >
> >
>
>
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