script to text

Anon

Hi,

I have file.html which is basically a php script full of forms, tables etc. I want to allow users to save the file in txt format on their hard drives. I've figured out the download part, it's the php->text part that's the problem.
Do I have to re-generate the file as a text file, or what?

PS: I have searched !

Anon

If you save your file as *.txt on the server, it should not be interpreted by PHP and this way you should get the original code....

Anon

If you save your file as *.txt on the
server
I wish! Nope, I'm afraid that all I get is an empty document. I tried this from the browser itself, and I get the following msg:
<TITLE>Missing Post reply data</TITLE>
<H1>Data Missing</H1>
This document resulted from a POST operation and has expired from the cache. If you wish you can repost the form data to recreate the document by pressing the <b>reload</b> button."
Needless to say, this isn't true: pressing reload results in exactly the same msg.
But the curious thing is, the html in the browser is perfect and present.

Donna

Anon

Carried on searching and found the following:
http://www.phpbuilder.com/forum/read.php3?num=2&id=122195&thread=122139
which solved the "expiring from cache" problem.
So now I have to figure out how to upload the .html file as a .txt file to the client when the users clicks the "download" button.
Help, please!

Anon

Check out function show_source:

<?PHP
show_source("filename.php3");
?>

Anon

Hi,
I don't think I explained myself properly 1st time round.
I generate afile.html using php.
I want the user to click on a button which then converts afile.html to afile.txt and sends it to their machine.
I don't want the actual source sent - just the html but stripped and nicely formatted.
I know it's going to be using headers or something like that.
It would be nice to do this all on the fly rather than saving it to disk first.