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Jul 10.2006

Hi

I have a page where I generate a table with data. I want this data to be available as download (text file for example) without actually creating the file on disk first. I want to have a button for “Download this data”, and when clicked I want to perhaps display a page saying something like “you’re file is being downloaded”.

As I understand it, I can use

[code=php]header(‘Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=”report.txt”‘);
readfile(‘temp_file.txt’);[/code]

But will not everything I send, including my pretty HTML afterwards, be downloaded then?

Thanks
Lubox

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@bokehJul 10.2006 — PHP will send whatever the logic of the script instructs it to send.
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@LuboxauthorJul 10.2006 — Maybe I asked a stupid question, let me try to show what I want:

[code=php]
header("Content-Type: application/force-download");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=report.txt");

echo "Content of textfile";
[/code]

After the echo, is it possible in any way to "reset" the headers, making it possible to echo html which will not be in the text-file, but displayed in the browser as usual?

Thanks

Lubox

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@bokehJul 10.2006 — After the echo, is it possible in any way to "reset" the headers, making it possible to echo html which will not be in the text-file[/QUOTE]No! These must be dealt with in separate requests.
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