Re: Dump file to local computer

Thank you very much for your instant help! Actually I am doing research and your reply is a great guidelines to my research :)) cheers Alex ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike" <php-digest@custom87.net> To: "Alex Shi" <chpshi@eol.ca> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 3:14 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Dump file to local computer > This one time, over a cup of hot coffee, Alex Shi said: > > Hi, > > > > How to use php to handle downloading a file or content in a buffer into > > local computer as a file? > > > > Alex > > So I'll answer your question even though some people may think you > didn't research (*cough* Kevin Stone *cough*)... > > So you want a script: > > <?php > > //first send the correct headers > header ("Content-type: application/octet-stream"); > header ("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=" . $filename); > //optionally, you can do a : > header ("Pragma: no-cache"); > //so they can't cache the downloaded file in the browser > > //then give them the file... you might first want to check if > //the file exists. > readfile ($filename); > > ?> > > >