Text File Download in Web

Anon

hello,

Can anyone help me in solving the Text File Download problem? i want to download a text file; but when i click on the hyperlink that holds the text file, instead of the Download file dialog box to appear, it opens the text file straight on to the browser. if i give the file extension as .zip only then the download file dialog box appears and the download process takes place. Please help me in solving this problem and this is very very very urgent and the extensions for the file should be either .txt or .rtf.

high priority...please

i am sending the code i've written but it's not working...plz send an example to this...

<?
header("Content-type: text/html");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=filename.rtf");
header("Content-Description: PHP3 Generated Data");
header("Pragma: no-cache");?>

<body>
<a href="filename.txt">myfile</a>
</body>

this is the code i've written, but not working...plz help....high priority...

regards
abraham

Anon

You will need a php file which will send your text/rtf file. For example, create a php file called "sendfile.php" and put this code in it:

<?
$file = $PATH_INFO;
$file_directory = "/path/to/your/files";
$filename = basename($file);
Header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$filename\"");
Header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
readfile($file_directory.$file);
?>

Then you call it like this:

http://www.yourserver.com/sendfile.php/yourfile.txt

This will not only give you a download box every time but the "Save As" dialog will also have the correct filename in it!

G'luck,

Jack

Anon

Hi Jack!

I used the script you submitted for my web site to download file which has .htf extention. It perfectly works with IE but I am getting the dialog box with .html extention and without filename on Netscape. Is there any way we can fix this problem???
If you do, please let me know.

Thank you very much for your help.

Anon

Can I see your code? 🙂

Anon

Hi,

I have a problem in downloading csv file from my server.
I use this code in JSP 0.91

It does not download ( does not give download dialog box), but opens up *.csv file on netscape 4.7 browser itself.
Let me know how to fix this ASAP.
But it works fine in IE 5.0

Thanks.

Vishwa

Anon

Author: Thomas Webster (209.181.153.105)
Date: 2001-04-16 19:18:52

Hi, I'm linking to this script in order to dwonload a txt file which works great, but for some reason I have to link it in a new window in order for it to download right. So after the file downloads the page gets an error and i get the nasty ie can't find page or load content error. I'm thinking because the page I'm calling is basically nothing but an attached file for download, it won't let me load further content in that page. Is thier a way around this?, or am I just way off base here.
Thanks for your help
ThoMas

<?php
error_reporting(7);
$downfile = "testdl.txt";
$file = $downfile;

$file_directory = "http://www.thinkbug.com/planet/";
//$filename = basename($file);
$filename = $file;
Header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$filename\"");
//Header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
Header("Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii");

readfile($file_directory.$file);
//$file_directory = "/path/to/your/files";
//$PATH_INFO
Header("Location: http://www.thinkbug.com/planet/download.htm");
?>

<head>

<title>

Thank You For Downloading

</title>

</head>

Thank you for downloading

from Planet Admin.

<a href="#" onClick="tmt_winControl('self','close()')">Close

Window.</a>

</body>

Anon

I am having a similar problem with Netscape 4.51

I have got some associations to work, by

1) Using the View | Options in Windows Explorer to open up excel foa a csv file type

2) Using Edit | Preferences in Netscape then Navigator | Applications to add a file type for csv.

This has mixed results.
For some files I can open in Excel; others open in the browser as text files. There appears to be nothing specific about either, except that some of CSV files are stored on Unix (case sensitive).

Did you manage to resolve your problems and if so how?

Many thanks
Dave