Re: Forcing a dynamic created text file to be saved

You are not going to be able to use PHP to tell the client browser to do anything. you are going to have to embed either a java.applet, or javascript to do it.. I don¹t know a whole lot about either, so I don't know if they are even a possibility. On 4/10/01 2:29 PM, "Nando2" <nando@antunes.eti.br> wrote: > Hello all! > > I have a PHP4 script that produces a text file and I would like that when the > user access this script the text content of it was forced to be saved meaning > that when the user selects it he/she will have the save dialog form to save > the text file with the filename specified in the header function. So far I > have managed to create the text file dynamicaly but still I have to click the > browser's save button to save the file with the determined filename. I wanted > it to be forced. > > Does anyone know how to do it ? > > Here's the code : > > <?php > > // Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes : Test saving text files with PHP > // this sets the content type as being plain text > > header("Content-Type : text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\""); > > // this sets the file name > > header("Content-Disposition: filename=\"test.txt\""); > > // creates the dynamic content of the text file here > > print("TextFile test\r\n\"); > for ($i=1; $i < 100; $i++) { > print("This is line number ".$i."\r\n"); > } > > ?> > > Thanks, > > Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes >