downloading a file

[Anon]

HI All

My problem is this. I am querying a database and then writing the results to a tab delimited file. That works and is fine. But i would like to be able to allow the user to download the file to their local machine.

As i have put an .xls extension on the file then it open perfectly in excel.

How do i go about downloading the file ?

I have a download page which contains the following code

Header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\"$filename\"");
Header("Content-type: application/download");

This is fine in that it brings up the download box but when i open the file locally it's empty !!!

ANyone got any ideas

Many thanks guys

[Anon]

I think you just need:

Header("Content-type: application/download\n\n");

(note the two new lines), and then output your content on the next line, i.e.:

readfile("$filename");

And that should do it...

[Anon]

That or just display a link to the file in you run-of-the-mill HREF statement and have the user click on it :-)