standard popup "save as" window

jadeddog

hey there.... i have a website that i run....a couple other guys and i put our music on the site for people to download (gotta start being a rockstar somewhere!! 🙂)... the downloads work and all, but they dont creat the standard "save as" window, they just start the download in the background.... i have a direct link to the file on the server as the tag.... i would like to have the standard "save as" window appear, this would allow people to save the file where they want on their puter and would show them the status (transfer speed, time remaining etc) on the file download.... is there a way to do this with PHP? or is it something really simple in html that im missing?

any help on this would be greatly appreciated.... thx in advance

Davy

HTML isn't that good!!

I'm afraid this is a local machine thang. This is down to thier connection speed, thier browser settings and thier METHOD OF DOWNLOAD.

As far as I know, php cannot help you, nor can JavaScript. I'm afraid you will have to recommend to your users to :

Right-click the download link and single left-click the 'Save As' option.

ozzythaman

i assume php is 'showing' the requested files to the user, put these lines in the beginning of your code before any other output:

example file: filename.png

header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"filename.png\"");
header ("Content-type: image/png");

change content type for your files

these lines do not work with many (all?) versions of Opera, and perhaps other browsers as well.

but they do work for IE.