Re: Saving server side file to local machine with JS

Skip Evans wrote: > Sorry, I should have been clearer. > > When PHP finishes creating the file I need one of the JS alert type > windows to appear that says.. > > "Your file has completed, would you like to save it to your machine?" > > Like you get when you download a file. > > If I knew the JS code to do this I perhaps could embed it in the PHP at > the end of the function that creates the file??? > > Is that clearer? > > Thanks, > Skip Not sure if you can save it directly.... From javascript! What you could do is. 1. Make an asynchrome call to a php script on the server with javascript. 2. Once PHP is finished you can make it return a URL to the asynchrome javascript call. This URl will point to the generated download file. 3. Then with javascript create a nice div with two buttons. One to initiate the download and the other to cancel... > > > Paul M Foster wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 09:55:14PM -0500, Skip Evans wrote: >> >>> Okay, I know I've done this before, but now I'm blanking out. >>> >>> I have code that creates a CSV file, and when it's done I want >>> a JS alert to pop up and let them save the file. >>> >>> Isn't this some kind of alert() type call on the JS side??? >>> >>> I know I've done this before and I've been on Google an hour now! >> >> Not sure I understand your question, but there is a function called >> alert() in javascript. It opens a window with your error message in it. >> >> I don't know of a way to trigger this from PHP, since PHP is server-side >> and Javascript is client-side. You might be able to have javascript scan >> for the existence/closing of the file in question and then alert the >> user. Or you could have PHP, when the file is complete, launch a new >> page which contains the javascript code to alert the user. >> >> Paul >> >