RE: [PHP] Downloading file from local network machine

Hello Jonathan, On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 17:32 +0000, Mayer, Jonathan wrote: > Thanks Wolf :) > > Yup, I had considered that, although there could be up to 8 different servers so that's 8 > seperately mapped drives. > > If that's the simplest/neatest way, I'll do that, although I did wonder whether there > was some other clever another way around it. Actually there is a much better way to achieve that. I just presented it at a Microsoft Web Development summit that was mostly about PHP. Here follows the slide presentation. Check slide 5. http://www.slideshare.net/manuellemos/what-could-microsoft-do-to-make-php-run-better-on-windows-presentation/ It consists add a PHP stream wrapper class that allows you to use fopen and other PHP file access functions with a file name URL like this: smb://user:password@host/path/to/share The stream warpper class is here: http://www.phpclasses.org/smb4php -- Regards, Manuel Lemos Find and post PHP jobs http://www.phpclasses.org/jobs/ PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/