Re: download

Kris, If I understand what you mean correctly, this is just an ordinary anchor (nothing to do with php). For example, <a href="http://mybox.domain.com/myfile.xls">Click to download</a> When clicked, if ".xls" is in /etc/mime.types as

"application/vnd.ms-excel    .xls" then it will either download or start up the Excel application, depending upon the setting of the user's browser. If not in /etc/mime.types, it will probably try to display the file in the browser, depending upon the setting of DefaultType in httpd.conf.

Hope this helps. Chris Kris Vose wrote:

are there any php functions that handle downloads. For Instance I want to create a link that contains a url string. In this string a variable is defined as a file. This file will be downloaded when the user clicks on the link. How do you handle this file in php? Is there a function that will do this. I have tried the copy function but it does not seems to work. Kris