file name problem

Anon

Hi !

I have the following problem.
I have written a webmail application. Now , I am at the file attach decoding.
I want to put the files in /tmp.
I use tempnam() function.

When I do <A HREF=$tempname> , I don't have the extension and the name to pass to the browser , so , it doesn't know how to handle the file.
For example : I decoded file.xls. It is in the /tmp directory as file53845. I do :
<A HREF="file53845">file.xls</A>.
But the browser cannot get the right filename(file) and extension (.xls).

Please help.

With best regards , Alex.

Anon

So, what you need is to define a file type, as far as I can understand, right?
Read this manual page: http://www.phpbuilder.com/manual/features.file-upload.php
As described on this page, you can define file type either from $userfile_name or from $userfile_type variables. Then just save your file with correct extension on the server - and you'll get it, I hope :-)

Anon

Hi !

You got it wrong. $userfile_name and _type doesn't help me , because as I said in my previous message it's not a matter of uploading to the server , but downloading from the server.

Please , reread my initial message.

Thank you.