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vsimpson

I know how to upload files to the server - but what I want to do now is open up the current application dependant on the file extension - i.e. launch excel if excel attached, launch adobe acrobat if pdf etc.... and ideally using the applications that the end user has associated with each of their file types dependant on their own pc....

Please help ... Thanks, Val

yelvington

Link to them?

PHP need not be involved in file downloads.

icaro

one aplication in my job does it.. but i am at home now, and cannot look that php code from here..

i just get this from php.net/header
take a look at this function description and this comment from there:
(you do need all those header's)

Dr. Hasenbein
03-Nov-2003 10:30
I had problems getting IE 6 to open [or to 'save as'] a BLOB'ed Word-document even with all those nice examples below. This line saved my day: header("Cache-control: private");

<?
header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 2001 05:00:00 GMT");              // Date in the past
header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT");  // always modified
header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate");  // HTTP/1.1
header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0", false);
header("Pragma: no-cache");                                    // HTTP/1.0
header("Cache-control: private");                          // <= it's magical!!
header("Content-type: ".$row['mime']);                          // 'application/msword' or 'application/octet-stream'
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".$row['orgname']);

echo $row['file'];
?>