Re: How to simultaneously send HTML *and* start download?

Use PHP to write a META-REFRESH to the file that's going to be downloaded, or a php file that controls the download. Basically, you show them an HTML page that says the download will begin, the META tag refreshes after X seconds to the actual file, and the download box pops up. ---John Holmes... ----- Original Message ----- From: "D. D. Brierton" <darren@dzr-web.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 3:37 PM Subject: [PHP] How to simultaneously send HTML *and* start download? > The result I'm looking for is like the CGI script at netscape for downloading > NS6 - it takes you to a page which says aomething like "The download should > start automatically" and then the download begins. I'm having trouble figuring > out how to do this in PHP - I suspect through ignorance of the appropriate > HTTP headers. Am I looking for something like Content-type: multipart? So what > I'm looking to achieve is a bit like what this obviously fails to do (but > hopefuly you can see what I'm aiming at): > > <?php > $fp = fopen("myfile.foo","r"); > header("Content-type: application/foo"); > header("Content-Disposition: filename=myfile.foo"); > fpassthru($fp); > fclose($fp); > ?> > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> > <html> > <head> > <title>Download</title> > </head> > <body> > <p>The download should start automatically. If it does not, right click > the following link and choose "Save as ..."</p> > <p><a href="myfile.foo">Download MyFile</a></p> > </body> > </html> > > Obviously what actually happens with the above is that the HTML after the PHP > script is appended to myfile.foo. > > Can anyone point me in the right direction? > > TIA, Darren > > -- > ====================================================================== > D. D. Brierton darren@dzr-web.com www.dzr-web.com > Trying is the first step before failure (Homer Simpson) > ====================================================================== > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >