"Save Target as"

[Anon]

Hi,

I am try to call the browser function using "Save Target as" using PHP, is it possible? Coz currently user can download attachment file from my EMAIL server, but I dotn' store the file in a exact file directory. I will create the attachment through the EMAIL body.

The only way the user can download here is thru the browser 'Save Target as' function. How can i do this?

Thanks

[brandonschnell]

"Save Target as" isn't something php can directly call, but it can fool the browser into prompting the user to download a file.

http://www.phpbuilder.com/forum/read.php3?num=2&id=108076&thread=100996

search phpbuilder.com for other ideas to force downloads. just have a php script that gets the attachment from the email and prompts the user to download the attachment.

if this doesn't work give us more info

[Anon]

ok, Currently i am doing a web email system. when connecting to my pop mail server, i will use imap_body to get the full email body.

In order to customise my coding to more efficiecy, I store the attachemtn in the raw EMAIL which the user receive. So, I will run a body process function to seperate the message body and attachment.

So, I need to creat a link for teh user to download the attachment from this process. The only way the user can download correctly is from the browser 'save target as' function.

If php can't do this, how about javascript. But what i concern here is, if the user's pc doesn't support Javascript well, then they might not able to download the attachment also. Or, any suggestion to this?

[Anon]

all you've got to do is have a php script that seperates the message body from the attachments. show to the user any text & html in the message and offer a download link to the attachments that force the headers to the mime type and passthru the attachment data.

look at www.php.net and www.phpbuilder.com for scripts to decode mime content from email messages.

[Anon]

yupe.. my process will using decode mine script to seperate the message body and attachement.

Now, i wonder, how to force the attachemnts have a link work as something like browser's 'Save Target As' function ?

[Anon]

when you show the email decode only the txt & html and show that, for each other file found offer a download link and the file name. when the user hits the download link pass the mime id back to your email mime decoder,decode the mime attachment specified by the id, force the headers based on the mime type (found in the attachment mime headers) then unencode and echo the data out to the browser. on getting the headers the browser will prompt for the user to "save as" and even can include the file name (found in the mime headers). take a look how hotmail handles mime attachments.

get a php script to decode mime attachments and break them apart and see how it works.

[Anon]

Please tell me how to parse the body returned by the function:

"imap_body(imapstream,num)"

to retrive the properties & different parts of messages.

[enterume]

you could probarly use ima_fetchstructure() to retrieve each part & its property.

imap_body will return you the raw message body of the email. you need to do some mime decoding process in order to view the message properly if there is any attachment.