Downloading using PHP

[Anon]

I have a problem when downloading a word document using PHP in IE5.5, Word is opended within IE and then displayed.

I want to force the download. I have tried the following:

header("Content-type: application/octet-stream\n")
header("Content-type: application/force-download\n")
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$TheFilename\"\n")
header("Content-Length: $TheFileSize\n")

This does not work, the file is displayed rather downloaded. Can anyone help please?

[cheald]

Not sure it can be done - the MIME types are gonna mess with that. Have you tried zipping the file?