writing a file

dfloyd

I have some text that is the result of a lot of form inputs that I would like to write to the users disk..

I have been thinking of using somthing like the following, but am new to PHP and would like some pointers as to why this is not working..

<?php
// $dl is the text to be written to the file
// $filename is the file name ?

// no need to go anywhere after this, since the file downloads straight from the link.
header("Content-Disposition: atachment; filename=$filename");
header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Length: ".filesize("$filename"));
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: 0");
echo $dl;
exit();

I can write the file, but the file is empty...

Anon

You mean write to the server not the users disk

$fp = fopen("file.txt","w");
fputs($fp,"helloworld");
fclose($fp);

Try this

Mark
www.hdwt.com

dfloyd

No I mean to write a file to the user disk, the form could be on a CD or on a web site.

it is a bit of a unique application..

Dave

Anon

When you say form are you talking about source or destination

Mark
hdwt.com

dfloyd

the $dl is a string of text from a form, that i wish to write to a file on the users disk the $filename the the filename I wish to write the file to..

The users could be using the web site on a CD or on a web site or on their HDU..

when they have completed the input stage of the form I wanted them to press a button and have the form call this script which would then write the file back to their disk..

Dave