Forcing a download prompt for an accepted MIME type

[ibanez270dx]

Hello,

I have an application written in PHP that is used to securely share files, etc... however, I would like to prompt a download box when a user clicks to download a file. Currently, if the file is an accepted MIME type like .xls, .csv, .jpg, .gif, etc... it just opens the file in the browser or in the appropriate application. Is there a way I can force a download prompt?

 

Thanks,

- Jeff

[hitman6003]

pass an attachment content-disposition header...

 

header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="downloaded.pdf"');

[ibanez270dx]

thanks! I got it. Just in case anyone is having trouble with this:

 

header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$item_location\"");

header("Content-Type: text/html");

readfile("$item_url");

 

Thanks again,

- Jeff