[PHP] Forcing a dynamic created text file to be saved
Hello all!
I have a PHP4 script that produces a text file and I would like that when the user
access this script the text content of it was forced to be saved meaning that when the
user selects it he/she will have the save dialog form to save the text file with the
filename specified in the header function. So far I have managed to create the text
file dynamicaly but still I have to click the browser's save button to save the file
with the determined filename. I wanted it to be forced.
Does anyone know how to do it ?
Here's the code :
?php
// Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes : Test saving text files with PHP
// this sets the content type as being plain text
header("Content-Type : text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"");
// this sets the file name
header("Content-Disposition: filename=\"test.txt\"");
// creates the dynamic content of the text file here
print("TextFile test\r\n\");
for ($i=1; $i 100; $i++) {
print("This is line number ".$i."\r\n");
}
?
Thanks,
Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes
Re: [PHP] Forcing a dynamic created text file to be saved
You are not going to be able to use PHP to tell the client browser to do
anything.
you are going to have to embed either a java.applet, or javascript to do it.
I dont know a whole lot about either, so I don't know if they are even a
possibility.
On 4/10/01 2:29 PM, "Nando2" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all!
I have a PHP4 script that produces a text file and I would like that when the
user access this script the text content of it was forced to be saved meaning
that when the user selects it he/she will have the save dialog form to save
the text file with the filename specified in the header function. So far I
have managed to create the text file dynamicaly but still I have to click the
browser's save button to save the file with the determined filename. I wanted
it to be forced.
Does anyone know how to do it ?
Here's the code :
?php
// Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes : Test saving text files with PHP
// this sets the content type as being plain text
header("Content-Type : text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"");
// this sets the file name
header("Content-Disposition: filename=\"test.txt\"");
// creates the dynamic content of the text file here
print("TextFile test\r\n\");
for ($i=1; $i 100; $i++) {
print("This is line number ".$i."\r\n");
}
?
Thanks,
Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes
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Re: [PHP] Forcing a dynamic created text file to be saved
"Lindsay Adams" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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You are not going to be able to use PHP to tell the client browser to do
anything.
you are going to have to embed either a java.applet, or javascript to do it.
I don¹t know a whole lot about either, so I don't know if they are even a
possibility.
On 4/10/01 2:29 PM, "Nando2" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all!
I have a PHP4 script that produces a text file and I would like that when
the
user access this script the text content of it was forced to be saved
meaning
that when the user selects it he/she will have the save dialog form to
save
the text file with the filename specified in the header function. So far I
have managed to create the text file dynamicaly but still I have to click
the
browser's save button to save the file with the determined filename. I
wanted
it to be forced.
Does anyone know how to do it ?
Here's the code :
?php
// Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes : Test saving text files with PHP
// this sets the content type as being plain text
header("Content-Type : text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"");
// this sets the file name
header("Content-Disposition: filename=\"test.txt\"");
// creates the dynamic content of the text file here
print("TextFile test\r\n\");
for ($i=1; $i 100; $i++) {
print("This is line number ".$i."\r\n");
}
?
try:
header("Content-Type: unknown/unknown");
browswer won't know what type of file it is, so will prompt to save.. should
get the file-name right from the other.
bkx
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Re: [PHP] Forcing a dynamic created text file to be saved
I stand happily corrected :)
On 4/10/01 7:01 PM, "Stuart J. Browne" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
"Lindsay Adams" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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You are not going to be able to use PHP to tell the client browser to do
anything.
you are going to have to embed either a java.applet, or javascript to do it.
I don1t know a whole lot about either, so I don't know if they are even a
possibility.
On 4/10/01 2:29 PM, "Nando2" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all!
I have a PHP4 script that produces a text file and I would like that when
the
user access this script the text content of it was forced to be saved
meaning
that when the user selects it he/she will have the save dialog form to
save
the text file with the filename specified in the header function. So far I
have managed to create the text file dynamicaly but still I have to click
the
browser's save button to save the file with the determined filename. I
wanted
it to be forced.
Does anyone know how to do it ?
Here's the code :
?php
// Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes : Test saving text files with PHP
// this sets the content type as being plain text
header("Content-Type : text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"");
// this sets the file name
header("Content-Disposition: filename=\"test.txt\"");
// creates the dynamic content of the text file here
print("TextFile test\r\n\");
for ($i=1; $i 100; $i++) {
print("This is line number ".$i."\r\n");
}
?
try:
header("Content-Type: unknown/unknown");
browswer won't know what type of file it is, so will prompt to save.. should
get the file-name right from the other.
bkx
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