[RESOLVED] forcing Save As window?

[sergiox]

Hello,

I need to force the Save As for pdf files in IE.

Actually the code is opening Acrobat:

<?php session_start();

  include("../blablabla");

  include("../blablabla");

$sql=executeQuery("select * from tbl_documents where id='".$_REQUEST['id']."'");

$li=mysql_fetch_array($sql);

$filename = $li['document'];

$csv_output=file_get_contents("upload_images/document/$filename");

header("Content-type: application/force-download");

header("Content-disposition: attachment ".$filename);

header( "Content-disposition: filename=".$filename);

print $csv_output;

exit;

?>

Is there a way to do that?

Thanks in advance.

Sergio

[_uk_stuff]

Hi Sergio,

I was reading an article the other day about browser support and one thing they mentioned was case within the header command.

It might be worth trying to follow the example laid out on the php.net website with forcing a download dialog on the user.

<?php
// We'll be outputting a PDF
header('Content-type: application/pdf');

// It will be called downloaded.pdf
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="downloaded.pdf"');

// The PDF source is in original.pdf
readfile('original.pdf');
?>

As you can see they have combined the Content-Disposition into a single header call and also have capitals at the beginning of each line.

Like I said, not sure if this will solve it but might be worth a try.

[NogDog]

In addition to the suggestions in the preceding reply, I would add the following headers (with the Content-Transfer-Encoding header being the important one for forcing the download):

header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');

[sergiox]

Ups! Thanks!

I'll sleep a bit, and test your approachs.

I'll come back to tell the news.

Thanks again.

Sergio

[sergiox]

I could not wait!

It's alive! It's alive! :eek: 😃

Thank you [uk]stuff and NogDog. You are the guys!

Cheers,

Sergio

[Weedpacket]

Incidentally, there is no such content-type as "application/force-download". Generic binary data is "application/octet-stream".

[sergiox]

Yep Weedpacket,

If you see the entire code, you'll not believe that it works. I don't know who done it, but I think he is a magician, or something like that. It's a mixture between tableless, tablefull, period table, rear table, and so on. The CSS files is (are) a nightmare. Well, that is what I'm doing... Just fixing ,and... fixing, and.... 😛