Hello Philip (please email the PHP list directly, not me personally), Wednesday, January 5, 2005, 4:01:15 PM, you wrote: PT> Ok, I have another question. Would I be able to execute a batch file PT> (or something) upon the user hitting a button, which would then save PT> the file to the specified location? You could have a button on your web page that when clicked would start to download a file. However the second your PHP script sends the file to the browser you are handing over all control regarding how the file is saved (and where) to the browser. You cannot influence or modify this behaviour - you send the file to the browser, the browser takes over from there. PT> It seems as though this can be done because viruses tend to do it all PT> the time - you click on a link or open an email attachment which causes PT> a .exe or .bat file to run. Now I hate relating what I want to do with PT> a virus, but that's how I can most closely relate it. Sure.. but that is totally outside the confines of a web browser. Even if you did click a link on a web page (that linked to a virus EXE) all you are really doing is sending that exe to the browser. What then happens with it is us to the user/browser configuration and is out of your control. If the user is dumb enough to have their browser automatically run any EXE file they download without prompting - well, that is another problem altogether and one PHP could never hope to fix (mod_brain_replacement perhaps?) Best regards, Richard Davey -- http://www.launchcode.co.uk - PHP Development Services "I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
