write file to client

[andreas57]

i've got files stored in a mysql database and want offer them for download. how can i let them be downloaded without creating the file on the server? i thought about fsockopen().

andreas owen
aowen@arcade.ch

 

[sleipnir214]

If you're talking about writing the file to your client's system, fsockopen() won't do it. fsockopen() requires that something be listening on a port and IP address.

I recommend that you fetch the data from the database and stream it to the client after setting the appropriate headers for content-type and content-disposition. See the examples on the online manual page under header() for more information:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php

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[andreas57]

thanks, that works perfect, but the popup should close after the download. how do i do that? i've seen something with javascript "on_load(close)" or similar but i couldn't get it to work

andreas owen
aowen@swissonline.ch

 

[sleipnir214]

I don't know how you're opening a popup to be able to close it.

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[Alterac]

He is probaly talking about the download window that appears once he streams the appropriate header.

 

[andreas57]

well to stream the download i have to open a popup and declair the headers. afterwards the stystem-window comes and prompts where to save the download. after the download the popup is still there. is there a way to do this without popup?

andreas owen
aowen@swissonline.ch

 

[KempCGDR]

write

<script language=javascript>
self.close
</script>

to the window after the code to send the headers? Might need a ; on the end of that line, been years since I used javascript.