Re: view as downloadable text/plain

2010-04-16 Thread Melanie Sommer
I now simply wrote header("Content-Type: text/plain"); header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="text.txt"'); into my controller - that seems rather dirty, but it works. Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. Yo

Re: view as downloadable text/plain

2010-04-16 Thread Melanie Sommer
> I just wrote a quick PlaintextHelper (3 minutes!) based on the > CsvHelper I'm already using. Check it out here: > > http://pastebin.com/u46cWX7T Well it does not work, header is still html. I also do not understand why it should work. The only thing you are doing is taking elements/users/txt_d

Re: view as downloadable text/plain

2010-04-16 Thread cricket
On Apr 16, 7:37 am, Melanie Sommer wrote: > > Because the View class uses output buffering. Have a look at MediaView > > instead: > > Thank you; but I am afraid I did not figure out how this helps me > > MediaView Summary: > "Methods to display or download any type of file" > > I do not want to di

Re: view as downloadable text/plain

2010-04-16 Thread Melanie Sommer
> Because the View class uses output buffering. Have a look at MediaView > instead: Thank you; but I am afraid I did not figure out how this helps me MediaView Summary: "Methods to display or download any type of file" I do not want to display or download a file as there exists no file. The cont

Re: view as downloadable text/plain

2010-04-12 Thread cricket
On Apr 12, 2:51 pm, Melanie Sommer wrote: > I want to have the output as plain text offered with a download > dialog. > > This works fine on my server with a .php file outside of cake that > looks like > header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="test.tex"'); > echo "aa\n\na\ta\ta?> > > I

view as downloadable text/plain

2010-04-12 Thread Melanie Sommer
I want to have the output as plain text offered with a download dialog. This works fine on my server with a .php file outside of cake that looks like In cake I create a new layout in views/layouts/tex.ctp content: in my controller I wrote Configure::write('debug', '0'); $this->render(null,'tex