Downloadable .htm pages + .pdf files

[brianb]

Hello,

Coded a PHP solution for outputting some of the documents within my database in .htm and .pdf formats.

Now, what I'd like to do, instead of having these elements load in a web browser when a linked is clicked, I'd like the files to be downloaded directly to the person's machine.

Is there a trick for making this happen?

[leatherback]

Hi,

this is what I use:

$thisfile = "readme.txt";
 $dbn = "".$thisfile."";
 $fp = fopen($dbn, "rb");
 $sdata = fread($fp, filesize($dbn));
 fclose($fp); 

 if (strstr($_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"],"MSIE 5.5")) 
   {
   $att = "";
   }
   else 
   { 
   $att = " attachment;";
   }

//  $filename = "file.pdf"; 
header("Cache-control: private"); // fix for IE 
header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream"); 
header("Content-Length: ".filesize($thisfile)); 
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; 
filename=$thisfile"); 

$fp = fopen($thisfile, 'r'); 
fpassthru($fp); // ** CORRECT ** 

(I grabbed it from a much larger script, so I am not sure this works straight away. But you get the idea?)

J.

[brianb]

Thanks a million!