RE: [PHP] launch app

The only thing that you can do is the same as sourceforge.net does. Bring up a web page that says yadadad download this etc. then in the header make it redirect to a file on the web server after 3 seconds or something. Go download something off sourceforge to see what I'm on about. :) I have the same problem. I wrote a program to gather stuff of a persons machine. Works like a charm. Written in visual basic using only API calls and myvbsql calls to write to a mysql database. We put it in the login script. My boss wanted to make it like windows update so it runs when you visit our intranet. I put that idea in the 'good idea but too hard basket'. :) -----Original Message----- From: Ed Lazor [mailto:edlazor@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, 14 September 2005 11:50 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] launch app What's the best way to send an executable to a client desktop in PHP? I'm doing a project where we need to check and see which files need to be updated on a client-desktop. The idea is for a user to visit the website, an executable launches, checks the files on the drive, and then sends the data back to the website. It's all on the up and up - I'm not trying to do anything bad to the user. The site is designed to maintain a product that they're purchasing from us. Screens will explain what's going on. I also believe the browser will display something - not completely sure how to trigger this, but I think it's something to do with having executables "signed" - I'd appreciate if you have any advice on how to do this also. Thanks, Ed