Re: How to Force IE to download text file?

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Ali Asghar Toraby Parizy <aliasghar.toraby@gmail.com> wrote: > I have written this code to export data to a text file and asks user > to save generated file. It works with Firefox perfectly, but IE shows > content of file instead of prompting the download window. > How can I force IE to show the download dialog? > > <?php > Header("Content-disposition: attachement; filename=data.txt"); > Header("Content-type: text/plain"); > echo $some_data; > ?> We usually do something like this. Although I am not sure about text files. header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".urldecode(basename($file))."\";"); header("Content-Type: application/force-download");