Re: Forcing a dynamic created text file to be saved

"Lindsay Adams" <lindsay@dingos.net> wrote in message news:B6F8D561.4A90%lindsay@dingos.net... 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"); > } > > ?> try: header("Content-Type: unknown/unknown"); .... browswer won't know what type of file it is, so will prompt to save.. should get the file-name right from the other. bkx