Re: set filename of file open/download

>I'm using a php script to stream a microsoft word file to a browser. > >I'm sending header("Content-type: {$mimetype[DOC]} \n"); to set the mime >type to application/msword so that the browser knows how to open the file. > > >However, some users systems are configured to allow the choice of open or >saveas. The problem is that when the user selects saveas the filename it >uses is the name of the php script which streams the file, not the actual >filename of the file. How do I set this filename? Alas, different browsers do this differently... The *BEST* way to do it is to make your link be named the filename you want them to download: Example: http://uncommonground.com/events.pdf This is *really* a PHP script that happens to have a filename of 'events.pdf' I've put this into my .htaccess file to force Apache to parse events.pdf as PHP: <Files events.pdf> ForceType application/x-httpd-php </Files> So Apache "knows" it's a PHP file and PHP spews out valid PDF content and the browser never even "sees" .php anywhere, so the browser thinks it's just getting a static PDF file. If you have a zillion files to link to, you might want to consider: Creating "broken" links to http://example.com/index/nonexistent.doc *BUT* you have a file named 'index' and a ForceType like above to make Apache parse it as PHP, and inside 'index' you do: <?php # Use $path_info to determine what file they wish to download. # NOTE: It's going to be $_ENV['path_info'] or $_SERVER['path_info'] or something like that now... # Use phpinfo() to figure out what it is... ?> Or, if that sounds too "tricky" just put the filename into the link, even though it looks "bogus": http://example.com/download.php/whatever.doc?filename=whatever.doc Even though your PHP file is really 'download.php', Apache and PHP don't care about that extra crap in there '/whatever.doc' and the browsers are so stupid they think you've got an actual file with that name in it. You can also dink with headers involving Content-disposition and something else I forgot, since IE and Netscape and different versions of each look at different headers to "decide" what to use for "Save As..." *BUT* there will always be some minor version of IE or Netscape that doesn't follow their own rules, and the headers won't work for it. Thus I usually go with the first option, and don't even give the browser any way to "know" that it's not a plain old static URL. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm