Download and HTML

codeDV

Hi, I want to make a web page that will download a file and disaply HTML. Like they do at www.cnet.com.

To force a browser to download a file, I do the following:

<?php
header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=test");
?>

However if I do this following I get the header already sent error, which I expected:

<html>
<body>
  The file is going to download.
</body>
</html>
<?php
header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=test.txt");
?>
File content

So is there any way of having a download and HTML in one page??

bastien

<?php

header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=test.txt");

echo "
<html>
<body>
The file is going to download.
</body>
</html>";

codeDV

That won't work, becuase any data after those headers are sent becomes part of the file. Therefore the downloaded file will contain:

<html>
<body>
The file is going to download.
</body>
</html>

Not the page being veiwed.

Jalabert

It looks to me like your trying to do the same thing as I am. That is, display html data on a page and fire off some other media to the user.
I am actually trying to get my media onto the same page though.

I would be very interested in finding out your way of doing it, if you succeed.