Save page content to txt file exactly as on screen

[Itnassol]

I have a webpage that has some very simple code..

<?php do { ?>
<?php echo $row_rstest['InvoiceNo']; ?><br>
<?php echo $row_rstest['CustomerName']; ?><br>
<?php echo $row_rstest['AKA']; ?><br>
<?php } while ($row_rstest = mysql_fetch_assoc($rstest)); ?>

Very simple repeat that gives me a nice clean list down the page .... Thus

1000.001
AVON RUBBER PLC.
AVON
1000.002
AVON RUBBER PLC.
AVON
1001.001
AVON RUBBER PLC.
etc...
etc...

Exactly what I need...

Here's the question, and I'm probably missing something simple.

I need a text file from that, exactly as is on the screen preferably with a forced download.

Any ideas would be much appreciated..

If you look at <a href="http://oasdb.net/system/test.php">Test</a>

I have tried all the various php such as.

<?php
header("Content-Type: text/plain");
header("Content-Disposition: Attachment; filename=test.txt");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
?>

but I either get all the text in line with the HTML tags, I just want the text displayed in the way it is displayed on the screen.

I hope this make more sense now.

Thanks

Andrew

[Derokorian]

A) Don't put the html tags in when producing the output for text file.
- OR -
😎 use [man]strip_tags[/man] to pull out all the html tags before outputting for text download.

[Itnassol]

Derokorian;11046479 wrote:

A) Don't put the html tags in when producing the output for text file.
- OR -
😎 use [man]strip_tags[/man] to pull out all the html tags before outputting for text download.

So how do I create a <br> type effect in php, because I'm getting the text file and the contents in one long line?

Thanks

[Weedpacket]

Put a linefeed character at the end of each line (see Escaped characters for what one looks like).

[Itnassol]

Thank you for all your help...

all working, end code was very simple..

A couple of headers..

header("Content-Type: text/plain");
header("Content-Disposition: Attachment; filename=test.txt");

Then this code produces the replication in a text file I needed.

<?php do { ?>
<?php echo "This is the invoice No." . "$row_rstest[InvoiceNo]\r\n" . "$row_rstest[CustomerName]\r\n" . "$row_rstest[AKA]\r\n" . "$row_rstest[Fe]\r\n"; ?>
<?php } while ($row_rstest = mysql_fetch_assoc($rstest)); ?>
<?php

Thank you

[johanafm]

would be even simpler if you stripped all intermediate php tags. Also, having them there will output extra newline characters, because

<php ?>
<?php

contains one newline, between first closing and second opening php tags.

[Derokorian]

johanafm;11046513 wrote:

would be even simpler if you stripped all intermediate php tags. Also, having them there will output extra newline characters, because

<php ?>
<?php

contains one newline, between first closing and second opening php tags.

This is why I didn't suggest adding any new lines in my solution. However, I think this may be running on *nix and viewed on windows, which isn't smart enough to display a new line when it encounters a \n without \r in front.

[Weedpacket]

Derokorian wrote:

...viewed on windows, which isn't smart enough to display a new line when it encounters a \n without \r in front.

Well, Notepad isn't (Notepad isn't much more than this). A real text editor would be smart enough....

[Itnassol]

Nice, so one php to open one to close...

here's the end result...

<?php
require_once('../Connections/OASDB.php');
require_once('../Connections/TextFile.php');
$FileNameComp = $row_rstest['AKA'];
$FileNameInN = $row_rstest['SnPf'];
header("Content-Type: text/plain");
header("Content-Disposition: Attachment; filename="."$FileNameComp"."_"."$FileNameInN".".txt");
echo "FILEREV:1.03\r\n" . "CSINRID:11\r\n" . "LEVEL00:0\r\n" . "LEVEL0:1\r\n" . "LEVEL1:2\r\n" . "LEVEL2:3\r\n" . "LEVEL3:4\r\n" . "LEVEL4:5\r\n";
do {
echo "UNITID#:" . "$row_rstest[Unit]\r\n" . "UNITDESC:" . "$row_rstest[Component]\r\n" . "AREADESC:" . "$row_rstest[Lubricant]\r\n" . "SAMPLEID:" . "$row_rstest[InvoiceNo]\r\n" . "TAKEDATE:" . "$row_rstest[DateSampled]\r\n" . "RECVDATE:" . "$row_rstest[DateReceived]\r\n" . "REPTDATE:" . "$row_rstest[DateTested]\r\n" . "COMMENTS:" . "$row_rstest[Comments]\r\n" . "COMMENTS:" . "\r\n" . "COMMENTS:" . "\r\n" . "COMMENTS:" . "\r\n" . "FE:" . "$row_rstest[Fe]\r\n" . "CR:" . "$row_rstest[Cr]\r\n" . "AL:" . "$row_rstest[Al]\r\n" . "CU:" . "$row_rstest[Cu]\r\n" . "PB:" . "$row_rstest[Pb]\r\n" . "SN:" . "$row_rstest[Sn]\r\n" . "NI:" . "$row_rstest[Ni]\r\n" . "MN:" . "$row_rstest[Mn]\r\n" . "TI:" . "$row_rstest[Ti]\r\n" . "AG:" . "$row_rstest[Ag]\r\n" . "MO:" . "$row_rstest[Mo]\r\n" . "ZN:" . "$row_rstest[Zn]\r\n" . "P:" . "$row_rstest[P]\r\n" . "CA:" . "$row_rstest[Ca]\r\n" . "BA:" . "$row_rstest[Ba]\r\n" . "MG:" . "$row_rstest[Mg]\r\n" . "SI:" . "$row_rstest[Si]\r\n" . "NA:" . "$row_rstest[Na]\r\n" . "B:" . "$row_rstest\r\n" . "V:" . "$row_rstest[V]\r\n" . "PQ:" . "$row_rstest[PQ]\r\n" . "WATERKF:" . "$row_rstest[Water_KF]\r\n";
} while ($row_rstest = mysql_fetch_assoc($rstest));
mysql_free_result($rstest);
?>

Works like a dream...

Thanks all