Re: problem generating a file link
| From: | Jochem Maas | Date: | Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:18:58 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: problem generating a file link | ||
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George Pitcher wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a web page that only I see, and I want to link to a PDF file on a
> mapped drive so that it will open in Acrobat.
>
> I have tried variations on the following:
>
> $storelink = "<a href=\"file://G:\\".$filename.".pdf\"
> target=\"_blank\">PDF</a>";
>
> and the link keeps coming out as:
>
> file:///G:/575991.pdf
is that what the browser (let me guess: IE) is interpreting
the link as or is that what is literally in the html source?
>
> So I have 3 x '/' and a '/' where I want a '\'.
>
> Can anyone tell me how to code this to get it right?
>
> MTIA
>
> Cheers
>
> George
>