On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 16:59 -0500, Bastien Koert wrote: > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Ashley Sheridan <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > > On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 17:32 +0000, Mayer, Jonathan wrote: > > > Thanks Wolf :) > > > > > > Yup, I had considered that, although there could be up to 8 different > > servers so that's 8 seperately mapped drives. > > > > > > If that's the simplest/neatest way, I'll do that, although I did wonder > > whether there was some other clever another way around it. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Wolf [mailto:lonewolf@xxxxxxxxx] > > > Sent: 05 December 2008 17:29 > > > To: Mayer, Jonathan; php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > Subject: Re: Downloading file from local network machine > > > > > > <!-- SNIP --> > > > > I would like to present users to our internal intranet with a link to > > > > download a file from a folder on a different machine on our local > > > > network (such as \\computername\folder\file) > > > <!-- SNIP --> > > > > > > Map the drive to the server so that it is accessible as /folder/file on > > the website. > > > > > > Voila, no more problem. > > > > > > HTH, > > > Wolf > > > > > > > > I don't have the code to hand right now, but I can try and post it > > later. You were on the right track with fread() et al. Basically, set > > the correct headers for a download (application/octet-stream I believe) > > and print out the results of the fread(). Don't forget the binary flag > > on fread() if you are opening binary files, and it should create a file > > that auto-downloads. There are extra headers to set the default filename > > of the download, but I forget these at the moment. A Google should give > > you what you need though. This way, the file can even be delivered to > > someone outside of your network should you wish, without you needing to > > put the file in a web-accessible directory. > > > > > > Ash > > www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > function force_download($file) > { > $dir = "../log/exports/"; > if ((isset($file))&&(file_exists($dir.$file))) { > header("Content-type: application/force-download"); > header('Content-Disposition: inline; filename="' . $dir.$file . '"'); > > header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: Binary"); > header("Content-length: ".filesize($dir.$file)); > header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream'); > header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . $file . '"'); > readfile("$dir$file"); > } else { > echo "No file selected"; > } //end if > > }//end function > > Two Content-type and Content-Disposition types specified here. All sorts of wrong. It can be done with just the one of each. Get rid of the force-download and the inline; disposition one. I just completed a project at work that has to do this, and it works fine on IE, Fx, Opera, and Safari. Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
