Re: Need to download files in IE

Hello, I do that with this piece of code. ( This will close the window, so open a new one and put this code inside) header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\"$fileName\""); header("Content-type: application-download"); header("Pragma: no-cache"); header("Expires: 0"); $fn=fopen($FileName,"r"); fpassthru($fn); fclose($fn); exit; py ----- Original Message ----- From: James R. Edgar <edgar@webt.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 7:57 PM Subject: [PHP] Need to download files in IE > I am trying to set my script up so that when a person clicks on the link, that > the page will prompt for a download w/ the filename in the File Name field in > the Save As prompt. > I can get this to work in Netscapse but when I try to do it with Internet > Explorer I encounter problems. It either says there is no application to read > the file (I have acrobat reader on the computer.) or it displays the prompt with > either [variable's name passed to script].htm or download.php. And the file I am > trying to download is a PDF file. If anyone can help me with this I would > greatly appreciate this, and thanks in advance. > > Regards, > Edgar > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >