how to generate files to the client hard disk not the server ?

mahmoudawad2004

please help me solving this problem :o

i want that when the users clicks "save file" for example , a file called info.txt will be generated , but i want not to save to the sever, but on my hard disk ............:glare:

bradgrafelman

How are you populating this file with information?

Let's pretend you have all of your information in a variable called '$data'. You could link the "Save File" to a PHP script with the contents like so:

       header ("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
       header ("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
       header ("Content-Length: " . strlen($data));
       header ("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"info.txt\"");

echo $data;

Sorry for the weird spacing - I copied and pasted the headers from a downloads script I made.

mahmoudawad2004

it worked with me. but with a problem,,,

the generated file contains my header and footer contents as :

========
<html><head>
.........
.........
.........
myfile (info.txt)
.........
.........
.........

</body></html>

i don't want to include this content
i want only the info.txt generated from the variable $data :bemused:

bradgrafelman

Can you show us the process you use to populate the $data variable then?