Re: File Open Prompt?

even the .tif is valid or not, the file should be downloaded "Ashley Sheridan" <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote in message news:1251530173.27899.135.camel@localhost... > On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 09:03 +0200, Ralph Deffke wrote: > > are u shure, u dont send anything out before u send the headers? even one > > space would be too much. > > > > ralph_deffke@yahoo.de > > > > "Dan Shirah" <mrsquash2@gmail.com> wrote in message > > > > news:a16da1ff0908281328k641ea332v25d887c4de5b347c@mail.gmail.com... > > > > > > > > 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: ' . $filesize); > > > > > > > > Eric > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I've tried: > > > > > > header('Content-Description: File Transfer'); > > > header('Content-Type: application/force-download'); > > > header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($filename)); > > > header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=' . basename($file)); > > > readfile($file); > > > AND > > > > > > if (file_exists($new_file)) { > > > header('Content-Description: File Transfer'); > > > header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream'); > > > header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.basename($new_file > > > )); > > > header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary'); > > > header('Expires: 0'); > > > header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0'); > > > header('Pragma: public'); > > > header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($new_file)); > > > ob_clean(); > > > flush(); > > > readfile($new_file); > > > exit; > > > } > > > > > > But everything I do just sends heiroglyphics to the screen instead of > > giving > > > the download box. > > > > > > > > > > Try putting all of that inside of a headers_sent(){} block. If nothing > is displayed, it means that you've already sent something to the > browser, so the headers have already been sent and the extra ones you > are sending do nothing. This sort of thing is shown in your error log > also. > > If you still get the tif displayed as text, then are you sure that the > tif is valid? > > Thanks, > Ash > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > >