how to open MS word application on client's computer

[windie]

hi,

I am having so much problem to code this project.

what we have to achieve is that opening MS Word document on client's computer using client's MS Word application.

when a client downloads a file (.doc) from server and click to open it (at client's end), document should be opened on Word window, not in IE by executing winword.exe on client's computer
All clients' computer have MS word installed on the same path.

Is it possible?

[Huuggee]

i'm not sure if this will help or not, but have you looked into headers?
http://www.php.net/header
(see the second user contributed note)

you can set the header type to use application/msword, and i think that may force it to open word as an aplication without imbedding it in IE

[planetsim]

Actually application/msword is just the MIME type, you really cant do this as its sort of out of PHPs range. You may find away however it will come down to users browser (not everyone uses IE these days thank god) and the Browser Configuration.

[wchris]

i´m not sure i understood your post correctly, but i think you want that a user clicks on a button/link to open a word-doc that is not opening in ie.

so perhaps that what you need:

header ("Content-type: application/msword");
header ("Content-Length: " . $INT_length);
header ("Content-Disposition: outline; filename=" . $filename);

the important thing is to use "outline"!

cu
chris