How to send text as arbitrary filename?

[shakin]

What I mean is, I want to have a PHP page output a line of text and have the browser prompt the user to download the file as myfilename.txt.

What I've been able to do so far is prompt the user to download the php file with the one line of text I want... so I'm half way there.

All my searches return answers on how to have a script download a file that already exists on the filesystem, but I need to essentially take echoed text and have it download as a file.

Thanks.

[Weedpacket]

Downloading a string as a file is no different: it's just the response to an HTTP request no matter where it comes from. You put in the headers that say what sort of file it is, what filename you want them to use for it (exactly as you do for the "respond with the contents of another file" case you've been finding), and then send the string.

[shakin]

Thank you. The problem ended up being a bug that I didn't catch, so I thought I was going about the problem in the wrong way.

I had a blank value for the filename in the Content-Disposition header, so it defaulted to the current filename of the PHP script.