Re: File Open Prompt?

----- Original Message ----- From: "Ashley Sheridan" <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> To: "Dan Shirah" <mrsquash2@gmail.com> Cc: "PHP General" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 3:10 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] File Open Prompt? > On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 15:03 -0400, Dan Shirah wrote: > >> Greetings, >> >> I'm having a problem trying to get a file download prompt. >> >> Basically I have a page with image links. >> >> When the link is clicked, the user is directed to another page I have. That >> page finds the image path based on the image ID from the previous page. >> >> Once the image path is found I copy the image to the local webserver and >> rename the proprietary extension, .0D9 to .tif >> >> Once the file is renamed to .tif I want the download prompt to come up. You >> know, where it says, "Open" "Save" "Cancel". >> >> I've tried using: >> >> $fp = fopen($new_file,"r") ; >> header("Content-Type: image/tif"); >> while (! feof($fp)) { >> $buff = fread($fp,filesize($new_file)); >> print $buff; >> } >> >> But that just gives me heiroglyphics on the screen instead of prompting the >> user to download. >> >> Here is my code that copies and renames the file: >> >> if ($page != "" || $page != " ") { >> exec("xcopy ".$page." ".$topage.""); >> } >> $orig_file = $topage."\\".$objectid.".0D9"; >> //echo $orig_file; >> $new_file = $topage."\\".$objectid.".tif"; >> //echo $new_file; >> >> rename($orig_file,$new_file); >> You will need to add some headers to the page to popup the prompt, at least with these. $filename = 'somefile.tif'; $filesize = filesize($filename); header('Content-Type: application/force-download'); header('Content-disposition: attachement; filename=' . $filename); header('Content-length: ' . $filesize); Eric >> Any ideas on how to make the browser give the download prompt for $new_file? >> >> Thanks, >> Dan > > You need to send down the right headers to the browser, so that it knows > it's meant to save the file, and not attempt to display it. If the link > was to a file, you'd have certain header that informed the browser the > mime type of the file. > > Thanks, > Ash > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > >