Opening a file

[condoug]

Hi

I have created a file on the fly, stored content in the file and saved it on the server for backup purposes.

Now I need to (in the same piece of script) push that file to the browser for saving - how would this be achieved?

			$newhandle		=	fopen("my_folder/my_file.txt", 'w') or die("fails");
			fclose($newhandle);

		if (!$handle = fopen("my_folder/my_file.txt", 'a')) {
			echo "Failed";
		}

		if (fwrite($handle, "my content goes here") === FALSE) {
			echo "Failed";
		}

thanks for reading

[Valdhor]

How about this:

function force_download($file)
{
    $dir      = ""; //Set to the directory the file is in or nothing if in the same directory as the script
    if ((isset($file))&&(file_exists($dir.$file)))
    {
       header("Content-type: application/force-download");
       header('Content-Disposition: inline; filename="' . $dir.$file . '"');
       header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: Binary");
       header("Content-length: ".filesize($dir.$file));
       header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
       header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . $file . '"');
       readfile("$dir$file");
    }
    else
    {
       echo "No file selected";
    }
}