Save as Dialog box ???

muat · March 18, 2008

On a web page, when you have a link to a .doc, a .xls, a .ppt, or a .pdf...the browser automatically opens the file either in that borwser window. I would like to write a script or something that would force a save as dialog box to pop up rather than automatically open the file. This occurs when the file type is a .zip or .exe

anyone have any ideas???

Daniel0 · March 18, 2008

See this topic:

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,95433.0.html

muat · March 18, 2008

I have tried to enter this code in various places but i get 1 of 2 responses.

1. When i try to open the page with the links on it, it prompts a save, open, cancle dialog bix

2. it displays header errors on the web browser

Any thoughts as to where i am going wrong?

redbullmarky · March 18, 2008

sending the headers and file must be done before anything is sent to the browser - be it raw HTML or text sent by echo/print. post the code in question and we may be able to help you more.

muat · March 18, 2008

this is the code at the minute. as it stands once the link is clicked the pfd opens in the browser

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">  

<!--Start of HTML in English Language-->
<html lang="en">

<!--Start of head-->
<head>

	<!--title of the page-->
	<title>Libra Seafoods - Terms and Conditions</title>
	<!--End of the title  page-->

	<!--CSS imports-->
	<style type="text/css" media="screen">
		@import url("/master.css");
	</style>
	<!--Favicon code -->
	<link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
	<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
	<!--End of favicon-->

	<meta name="author" content="Andrew Muat" />
	<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
	<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en" />
	<meta name="description" content="Libra Seafoods Homepage" />
	<meta name="keywords" content="libra, seafoods, home, homepage, sea, see, fish, prawn, food, foods, seefoods, seefood, seafood, " />


	<!--End of CSS imports-->


    </head>
<!--End of Head-->

<!-- Start of Body -->
<body>


	<!--Start of top wrapper for the top menu-->
	<div id="wrapper">
		<?php
			include '../menu.php';
		?> 
	</div>
	<!--End of top menu wrapper-->

	<!--Start of header-->
	<?php
		include '../header.php';
	?>

	<!--End of header-->
	<!-- Start of Main Body Wrapper -->
	<div id="wrapper2">

		<!-- Start of Container -->
		<div id="container">

			<!--Start of main content area on the screen-->
			<div class="leftside">
			<h1>Navigation</h1>

			<?php
				include 'leftmenu.php';
			?>

			</div>
		  <div class="content">

				<h1>Terms and Conditions </h1>

				<p> </p>
				<p>Please select to download our full terms and conditions </p>
				<p> </p>


				<p><a href="terms/Libra%20Seafood%20Processing%20Ltd%20terms%20of%20business.pdf"><strong>Libra Seafoods Processing Ltd - Terms and Conditions of Business.pdf </strong></a></p>

				<p><a href="terms/Libra%20cold%20store%20terms%20and%20conditions.pdf"><strong>Libra Seafoods Processing Ltd - Cold Store Terms and Conditions.pdf</strong></a></p>
				<p> </p>
		  </div>
			<!-- End of Content -->


			<div class="clearbottom"></div>

		</div>
		<!-- End of Container -->

			<!-- Start of Footer -->
			<?php
				include '../footer.php';
			?>
			<!-- End of Footer -->

	</div>
	<!-- End of main wrapper -->
<div class="clearbottom"></div>
</body>
<!-- End of Body -->

</html>
<!--End of HTML-->

(edited by kenrbnsn to add

tags)

BlueSkyIS · March 18, 2008

one option: add target='_blank' to the PDF link. at least that should cause a new window to open. if you have to force a download, you'll need to send the PDF file with PHP and use the appropriate headers to force download.

lemmin · March 18, 2008

Make a new file called something like getfile.php with the code:

$file = $_GET['f'];

header("Pragma: public");
header("Expires: 0");
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0"); 

header("Content-Type: application/force-download");
header( "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".basename($file));

header( "Content-Description: File Transfer");
@readfile($file);

Then change your link to:

<a href="getfile.php?f=terms/Libra%20Seafood%20Processing%20Ltd%20terms%20of%20business.pdf">Libra Seafoods Processing Ltd - Terms and Conditions of Business.pdf</a>

muat · March 19, 2008

here is the output where i try the above?!

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\webs\test\about\getfile.php:2) in C:\webs\test\about\getfile.php on line 5

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\webs\test\about\getfile.php:2) in C:\webs\test\about\getfile.php on line 6

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\webs\test\about\getfile.php:2) in C:\webs\test\about\getfile.php on line 7

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\webs\test\about\getfile.php:2) in C:\webs\test\about\getfile.php on line 9

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\webs\test\about\getfile.php:2) in C:\webs\test\about\getfile.php on line 10

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\webs\test\about\getfile.php:2) in C:\webs\test\about\getfile.php on line 12

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any thoughts as to where ia mgoing wrong??

uniflare · March 19, 2008

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\webs\test\about\getfile.php:2) in C:\webs\test\about\getfile.php on line 5

you are ouputting content/data to the clients browser before line 5.

give us the exact file "getfile.php"

i believe the erroneous output is on line 2.

muat · March 19, 2008

I stupidly had a space before i opened my php tags, for some reason this kicked up that error. i have removed the gap and it is working perfectly now! Thank you all for your help!!! to be honest it wouldn’t be the end of the world if i didn’t get it working but it became a matter of principal that i did!!!!!

uniflare · March 19, 2008

darn right u got it workin, come back to the freaks if u need any more help

muat · March 19, 2008

would there be any reason it would work on a local host and not when it is online??

www.libraseafoods.com/about/Terms.php

when the link is clicked it just opens a blank web page??

uniflare · March 19, 2008

likely specific server confgurations are giving fatal errors in your script that the webserver has been configured not to show.

try either of these 2 lines at the top of your script:

ini_set("error_reportin","E_ALL");

or

error_reporting(E_ALL);

---

show us what it says,

if its still a blank page then you will need to either;

a, go into apache logs file "error.log",

or b, place "exit('got this far');" at the top of the script, and then move it down and refresh, check if it shows, then move it down & refresh again etc til it does not show, you can find the errored line this way.

---

also give us ya script so far

muat · March 19, 2008

nothing came up when i added the 2 error lines.

here are my 2 scripts as they are now

getfile.php

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
$file = $_GET['f'];

header("Pragma: public");
header("Expires: 0");
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0"); 

header("Content-Type: application/force-download");
header( "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".basename($file));

header( "Content-Description: File Transfer");
@readfile($file);

?>

Terms.php

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">  

<!--Start of HTML in English Language-->
<html lang="en">

<!--Start of head-->
<head>

	<!--title of the page-->
	<title>Libra Seafoods - Terms and Conditions</title>
	<!--End of the title  page-->

	<!--CSS imports-->
	<style type="text/css" media="screen">
		@import url("/master.css");
	</style>
	<!--Favicon code -->
	<link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
	<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
	<!--End of favicon-->

	<meta name="author" content="Andrew Muat" />
	<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
	<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en" />
	<meta name="description" content="Libra Seafoods Homepage" />
	<meta name="keywords" content="libra, seafoods, home, homepage, sea, see, fish, prawn, food, foods, seefoods, seefood, seafood, " />


	<!--End of CSS imports-->


    <style type="text/css">
<!--
.style1 {font-weight: bold}
-->
        </style>
</head>
<!--End of Head-->

<!-- Start of Body -->
<body>


	<!--Start of top wrapper for the top menu-->
	<div id="wrapper">
		<?php
			include '../menu.php';
		?> 
	</div>
	<!--End of top menu wrapper-->

	<!--Start of header-->
	<?php
		include '../header.php';
	?>

	<!--End of header-->
	<!-- Start of Main Body Wrapper -->
	<div id="wrapper2">

		<!-- Start of Container -->
		<div id="container">

			<!--Start of main content area on the screen-->
			<div class="leftside">
			<h1>Navigation</h1>

			<?php
				include 'leftmenu.php';
			?>

			</div>
		  <div class="content">

				<h1>Terms and Conditions </h1>

				<p> </p>
				<p>Please select to download our full terms and conditions </p>
				<p> </p>

				<p><span class="style1"><a href= "/about/getfile.php?f=terms/Libra%20Seafood%20Processing%20Ltd%20terms%20of%20business.pdf">Libra Seafoods Processing Ltd - Terms and Conditions of Business.pdf</a></span></p>
				<p> 
    
				  <strong><a href= "/about/getfile.php?f=terms/Libra%20cold%20store%20terms%20and%20conditions.pdf">Libra Seafoods Processing Ltd - Cold Store Terms and Conditions.pdf</a></strong> 
				    
				</p>
				<p> </p>
		  </div>
			<!-- End of Content -->


			<div class="clearbottom"></div>

		</div>
		<!-- End of Container -->

			<!-- Start of Footer -->
			<?php
				include '../footer.php';
			?>
			<!-- End of Footer -->

	</div>
	<!-- End of main wrapper -->
<div class="clearbottom"></div>
</body>
<!-- End of Body -->

</html>
<!--End of HTML-->

(edited by kenrbnsn to add

tags)

uniflare · March 19, 2008

try using the exit method i expained above, also try removing any @ symbols before any function calls, eg:

@readfile($file);

see if it shows anything,

do youhave access to error logs on ur online server?

muat · March 19, 2008

i have removed the @ symbol and i am still gettin the blank page when i click on the link

http://www.libraseafoods.com/about/getfile.php?f=terms/Libra%20Seafood%20Processing%20Ltd%20terms%20of%20business.pdf

the above is what is displayed in the browser address bar on the blank page. i dont think i do have access to server error files. however i am lookin into it now

dennismonsewicz · March 19, 2008

try this:

http://www.zubrag.com/scripts/download.php

muat · March 19, 2008

i have spoken to the host and there are no errors been logges at their end. i have also tried changeing the name of the file to .pdq to see if it brought an error and it didnt. is there something wrong with the getfile.php????

muat · March 19, 2008

getfile.php

<?

$file = $_GET['f'];

header("Pragma: public");

header("Expires: 0");

header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");

header("Content-Type: application/force-download");

header( "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".basename($file));

header( "Content-Description: File Transfer");

header('Accept-Ranges: bytes');

header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));

@readfile($file);

?>

error in browser

<? $file = $_GET['f']; header("Pragma: public"); header("Expires: 0"); header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0"); header("Content-Type: application/force-download"); header( "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".basename($file)); header( "Content-Description: File Transfer"); header('Accept-Ranges: bytes'); header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file)); @readfile($file); ?>

any thoughts??

dennismonsewicz · March 19, 2008

take away the @ symbol

also your getfile.php should be in the same directory as your downloadable files.

muat · March 19, 2008

I have tried that, and still no joy!! any other thoughts??

uniflare · March 19, 2008

have you tried using <?php instead of <?

also again..... try the exit debug suggestion i made earlier. it will really help, trust me, even if you rule it out.

muat · March 19, 2008

HAHA, that has worked!!!! <?php as apposed to <?

i havent got a clue why this is but it works!!

thank you very much i really appreciaty all your help.

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