asked on 12/10/2008

Save File To Hard Drive

I have a php script that currently saves a file to the user's hard drive. I'm wondering if it is possible to create a pop-up Save As box that allow the user to choose where the file is saved to and what it is called using either Javascript or php?

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walker6o9

12/11/2008

ahalya

12/10/2008

What's wrong with the web client's Saver As.. dialog ?

I use the following function to force a save, or give the option to the user to view or save a pdf file. (This can open up the client's Save As Dialog)

function setHeadersPDF($contentlength, $forcedSave) {
	
  if ($forcedSave) {
    if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) && strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],'MSIE'))
      header('Content-Type: application/force-download');
    else
      header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
    
    header('Content-Length: '.$contentlength);
    header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename="tmp.pdf"');
  }
  else {
    header('Content-Type: application/pdf');
    header('Content-Length: '. $contentlength);
    header('Content-disposition: inline; filename="tmp.pdf"');
  }
}

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walker6o9

12/10/2008

ASKER

Thanks -
What does $contentlength represent?

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ahalya

12/11/2008

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walker6o9

12/11/2008

ASKER

Is your code javascript or php? Also, will the first set work if $contentlength is not specificed, and will the second set work by itself?

walker6o9

12/11/2008

ASKER

Some problems when I tried out your code. I tried it both with $forcedSave as true and false. On a localhost, nothing happens. On a remote server I get the following errors:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /nfs/c01/h07/mnt/37639/domains/v01.andrew.sparrow-stage.com/html/SAVE/save.php:4) in /nfs/c01/h07/mnt/37639/domains/v01.andrew.sparrow-stage.com/html/SAVE/save.php on line 8

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /nfs/c01/h07/mnt/37639/domains/v01.andrew.sparrow-stage.com/html/SAVE/save.php:4) in /nfs/c01/h07/mnt/37639/domains/v01.andrew.sparrow-stage.com/html/SAVE/save.php on line 13

<?php  
      $forcedSave = true;
  if ($forcedSave) {
    if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) && strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],'MSIE'))
      header('Content-Type: application/force-download');
    else
      header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
    
   
    header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename="tmp.pdf"');
  }
  else {
    header('Content-Type: application/pdf');
 
    header('Content-disposition: inline; filename="tmp.pdf"');
  }
?>

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