'save as' page

nectarapricot

Hello,
How can we save a page to another drives/devices .
It was suggested to use the following code

<?php

if (isset($GET['download']) && $GET['download']) {
// tell browser its a download
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="example.php"');
}
?>

Do we just need to embed the code to the current page..or .how?

I have tried but the content is not displayed - the content is generated from another page that use php.

help is really appreciated.
thank you

halojoy

Your code is alright.
It will work if you add [man]readfile[/man]

If $fullpath means we have to add the full real path to the file
I do not know.
See some more info here: [man]header[/man]

You use a variable in URL 'download',
but I see you do not test for any value. Like for example filename.

Note. filename="example.php"
You can set any filename for download. Does not have to be same as original file.
It will be what the downloader will see in his popup.

<?php

if (isset($_GET['download']) && $_GET['download']) {

// tell browser its a download
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="example.php"');
readfile( $fullpath );

}

?>

nectarapricot

ok, thank you halojoy.
My page to be saved is a dynamic page.
I have tried this, but nothing is appear in the page to be saved.

I want to put button 'save as' and whenever user click this button, the 'save as'
dialog box will appear.
How can i do this?

Thank you in advanced!

johanafm

For downloads, you should use the appropriate content type header

header('content-type: application/octet-stream; name=example.php');

Other than that, whatever content you send will be saved to a file, or opened with a program of the user's choice. How you go about retrieving the resource does not differ in any way from how you retrieve any other resource not mean for download.

So if you really do want a button to activate download of this file, create it in the same way you would if you wanted a button to display this forum page. Or your start page. Personally I think you should stick to ordinarily designed links, unless you are working with forms or similar. But either way, what you want to do is best achieved by styling a link to appear as a button, rather than trying to make a button work as a link.

nectarapricot

Other than that, whatever content you send will be saved to a file, or opened with a program of the user's choice. How you go about retrieving the resource does not differ in any way from how you retrieve any other resource not mean for download.

is this means that I need to do " select "? but everything is shown in this dynamic page. there is no error, but the content is not displayed. (the dynamic one). the static html is shown anyway. what should I do?

johanafm

page 1

doctype, html, head, body...
<a href="display.php">Show dynamic stuff</a>
<a href="download.php">Download dynamic stuff</a>
/body & html

display.php

$stuff = somehowGetDynamicStuff();
header('content-type: text/html');
echo $stuff;

download.php

$stuff = somehowGetDynamicStuff(); // same function as above
header('content-type: application/octet-stream; name=file.html');
header('content-disposition: attachment; filename=file.html');
echo $stuff;

There is no difference whatsoever in how you get the data to the browser. The only thing that decides if the browser shows it (and how) or if it prompts the user for download/open with application..., is the content-type header.
So I don't know if you need to "select", even though I assume that by that you mean issue a select query to a database. You might read an xml file, scrape the web, echo the result of time() or show the current outdoors temperature.

Why your dynamic content is not shown is a php issue and is resolved through regular debugging. Turn on error logging/reporting etc. And while you do so, you may wish to use content-type text/plain or text/html so you can see the results in the browser directly without being prompted for what to do all the time.

And if you are using IE8, there's a chance that it will disregard your content-type for no good reason, and the solution is to add

header('x-content-type-options: nosniff');

If my memory serves me right. It was brad who made me aware of this proprietary IE8 header in one of the clientside technologies threads.

nectarapricot

Why your dynamic content is not shown is a php issue and is resolved through regular debugging. Turn on error logging/reporting etc. And while you do so, you may wish to use content-type text/plain or text/html so you can see the results in the browser directly without being prompted for what to do all the time.

Hello,
I think this is because the content of that page (all fields) is disabled unless we click one of the buton. if I want to do like this, what should I do---
when users click Save As button the fields will be enabled and that page is downlodable,
what should I do?

Thank you

halojoy

first
johanafm gave us an excellent mini-tutorial
thank you!

nectarapricot
I think you better post that page
where you have buttons for dowload

it is almost impossible to give a adequate answer that will work for you
if we know so little about the facts, the code you try
Regards
🙂

nectarapricot

Hello,
I did use form in my page- result.php- all of the elements are disabled.
in result.php I put one button for save As.
and I hope that the details of that page will be copied to saveas.php,
all fields are enabled
and can be saved to any devices.
Is there any ways to do so?

nectarapricot

In short, you need to set a php header (content-disposition) and include the filename.

Hi,
I put this in my code
<?
header('content-type: application/octet-stream; name=file.html');
header('content-disposition: attachment; filename=file.html');
?

the page is printed when users click a particular result in view.php (which listed all search result) -without display the details.
what I want to do is, when users click a particular result, the details of that page will be displayed. Currently this two things are done, but separately.
I would like to combine both functions in one page /or after being displayed in edit.php, a 'save as' page can be downlable . Currrently, if i try to do so, the downlable page-saveas.php is empty.
any idea on how to copy the id and its detail to another page?

in short, it is like post a edit.php details to saveas.php.
when users click 'save as' in edit.php page, the details wll be downloaded.
is this possible? in js?

how can we use submitform in php?
thanks in advance