More on: how to send a file to the user's browser?

Hi Mark, It does not work. What it does is to echo the thing to the screen. How can I force the browser to download it with its original file name? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Heintz PHP Mailing Lists" <heintzphp@mail.groupm7.com> To: "Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes" <nando@antunes.eti.br> Cc: "PHP-GENERAL" <PHP-GENERAL@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 5:01 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] how to send a file to the user's browser? A couple more headers than absolutely necessary, but this should work: <?php // open file and send to user if($fp = fopen($downloadfile, "r")){ // output headers $downloadsize = filesize($downloadfile); header ( "Expires: Mon, 1 Apr 1974 05:00:00 GMT" ); header ( "Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D,d M YH:i:s T") ); header ( "Pragma: no-cache" ); header ( "Content-type: application/octet-stream; name=$downloadfile" ); header ( "Content-length: $downloadsize" ); header ( "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="$downloadfile" ); // read out file fpassthru($fp); fclose($fp); } else { // can't open file } ?> mh. On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes wrote: > Hello all, > > I've got a script that generates a txt file, compresses it into a Zip file and it all happens on a directory that is out of apache's web site. > > This script generates the file based on MySQL server information and I have it then sent to the user's e-mail address. What I would like to do is to make the PHP script "throw" the file to the user's browser so that it would download it automatically. This file is created on a directory that is not the same as the web server where the pages and php scripts are located. > > Anyone could help me with that? > > Thanks. > > regards, > > Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes > Linux User #207984 > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php