help with download script please

sfw5000

This script has been bugging me for a long time. It works perfectly in mozilla/netscape, but in IE it has a bug. The user clicks on the link ../download.php?file_name=path_to_file.doc. The bug in IE is that it thinks the file_name is "download.php" instead of "path_to_file"... It will download the proper file, but it saves it as "download.php"... What is the trick to getting IE to get the value of $file_name?

$filetype = substr($data[$file_name],strlen(trim($data[$file_name]))-3,3);
switch( $filetype ){
           case "doc" : $filemime ="application/doc"; break;
           case "xls": $filemime ="application/xls"; break;
           case "pdf": $filemime ="application/pdf"; break;
           default   : $filemime ="application/force-download"; break; 
        }
header('Content-type: $filemime');


header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$file_name");


readfile($file_name);

The_Chancer

I use this

$size=filesize($file);

header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Length: $size");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".$file);
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");

readfile($file);

And it seems to work fine for me....

sfw5000

Thanks -- yours looks great, but it does the same thing for me. Works perfect in everything except IE... It still wants to name the file "download" instead of the actual name of the file... It doesn't do that for you? Is your "$file" varraible simply the path to the file?

The_Chancer

No - $file is ONLY the filename itself...

Because the script and the download files for me are in the same directory - it was not needed, if they are in separate ones, you will need to either pass both to the script, or $file = substr(strrchr($filenpath, "/"), 1); to get just the file itself which you can then use...

sfw5000

Cool -- thank you! I put download.php into the directory with the files, and now it works fine...

Thanks again.

Sam