On 15 Aug 2008, at 14:26, Dan Shirah wrote:
Because as I mentioned before PHP runs as a different user to your
browser.
-Stut
Stut,
Are you referring to this?
"If you're using IIS then it's the IUSR_machine user which doesn't
have access to the network by default"
The IUSR_SERVERNAME account is what it should be connecting as
whether I'm using PHP/Javascript/HTML, unless specifically set in a
connection string such as the database connections. But, the
initial calls always come from IUSR_SERVERNAME.
You need to understand that there are 2 sides to a web-based
application, the client and the server. When you link the browser to a
file (as in your HTML and JS code below) it's the *client* that's
accessing the file. Neither IIS nor PHP get involved in that. This
works because the browser is running as you and has sufficient
permissions to access that network location.
When you try to do the same with PHP it is running as the
IUSR_SERVERNAME user which, by default and for good reason, cannot
access network shares in that way. The link I gave you should give you
enough information to enable the required access for that user, but
you might want to think carefully before doing so since it's disabled
by default for security reasons.
-Stut
Thiago,
HTML WORKS
<a href=\\server\folder\file.xls target="_blank">Open</a>
Javascript WORKS
function openWin(folder,file) {
var LeftPosition = (this.screen.width) / 2;
var TopPosition = (this.screen.height) - this.screen.height;
var Height = (this.screen.height) - 90;
var Width = (this.screen.width) /2 - 10;
MyWin = window.open(\\\\server\\"+folder+"\\"+file
+"\.xls","ViewImage","scrollbars=yes, status=yes,
resizable=no,top="+TopPosition+",left="+LeftPosition+",width="+Width
+",height="+Height+"");
MyWin.focus();
}
PHP DOESN'T WORK
$filename = "\\\\server\\".$folder."\\".$file.".xls";
header("Content-Type: application/x-msdownload");
readfile($filename);
I put all three of these examples into the exact same page. The
HTML and Javascript open the file without any problems, but PHP
cannot open it.
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