Re: file creation question

Hello, John. Just use such code: header("Content-type: application/octet-stream"); header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$item[file_name]\""); header("Content-length: ".strlen($item[file_content])); echo $item[file_content] This should work... -- ============ Mike Tsapenko Chief of Web-development Dept. AlarIT http://www.AlarIT.com "John Hegele" <john@joeystillwagon.com> ÓÏÏÂÝÉÌ/ÓÏÏÂÝÉÌÁ × ÎÏ×ÏÓÔÑÈ ÓÌÅÄÕÀÝÅÅ: news:20020829165751.23496.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > I'm currently building a site for a band and one of the features I'd like to > offer is vCalendar files that the user can download. I'd like to be able to > pull values from a database to use in the file, but, rather than having the > actual file on the server, I was hoping that I could create the file > dynamically when the user clicks on a link. I think this is possible from > some information I've come across. > > My question here is not regarding anything having to do with the database, > I'm very familiar with how to pull data from a database with PHP. I just > can't figure out how I can generate a file, fill it with values from the > database and allow the user to download it without the file ever really > existing on the server. > > Thanks in advance for any help you can give. > > John > >