Re: Dynamic generation of text files?

Michael- Thank you, it works perfectly! --Dan "Michael Kimsal" <michael@tapinternet.com> wrote in message news:3AB61E8E.F3D43B1@tapinternet.com... > <a href="/scripts/GenericCard.php?uid=UniqueUserKey">Click here for John > Doe's vCard</a> > > GenericCard.php would have something like... > > // > // build $text from $uid passed in > // > header("Content-type: x/y"); > header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename" ); > print $text; > exit(); > > "x/y" would be something like text/html or application/vnd.excel or > something like that. Whatever the defined MIME header for > Vcards is, put that after the content-type. $filename > would be the name of the file you want to call this - something.vcf > I'd expect. > > We do this with Excel files all the time - sending down tab-delimited text, > and putting an excel application header on the file. > > Dan Costello wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to get my site to generate text files with a certain extension > > and MIME-type from a database, "on the fly". > > > > Specifically, I would like to build something that can create vCards, that > > is, text files of a particular format with the extension *.vcf, mime-type > > text/x-vcard, _at the time that the user clicks the link to download the > > file_. > > > > Currently, the only way I have of doing this is prebuilding all the vcf > > files when the page is built, then deleting them when the user goes > > somewhere else -- pretty inefficient. I'd really like to have, e.g. a bunch > > of links that look like this: > > > > <a href="/scripts/GenericCard.vcf?uid=UniqueUserKey">Click here for John > > Doe's vCard</a> > > > > ...so that when the user clicks the link, their contact manager (Outlook, or > > whatever) fires up on their machine and displays the freshly-generated > > vCard. > > > > I have, of course, thought of modifying the httpd.conf to have apache parse > > files with a .vcf extension through the php interpreter -- I think that this > > would be a very bad idea. ;-) > > > > So, is this too much to hope for? > > > -- > 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 >