That’s exactly why I need something that will put all the needed files directly onto the flash drive – to take that responsibility away from the user. Pulling the data from the DB and creating the folder structure is easy with PHP – just not sure how to copy that folder structure and related files to the flash drive without the user having to know much of anything about computers. Was hoping there is maybe a PHP extension that I didn’t know about, but sounds like a client side is going to be my best bet. From: Ashley Sheridan [mailto:ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 2:39 PM To: Ben Miller Cc: 'Roberto'; php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Backup to local drive On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 14:36 -0700, Ben Miller wrote: Too much reliance on the user knowing how to extract the files to the flash drive – need something that does it all for them so all they have to do is insert the flash drive on their own computer to store the preformatted presentation and then insert into a prospect’s computer and either a) (preferred) run the presentation via an autoplay command or b) open the presentation.html file. Ben From: Ashley Sheridan [mailto:ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 2:25 PM To: Ben Miller Cc: 'Roberto'; php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Backup to local drive On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 14:25 -0700, Ben Miller wrote: Users would be updating data via form input (address, tel, product catalogues, etc.) as well as uploading files (images, PDFs, etc.), creating their own presentations and saving those presentations to a flash drive as HTML files with calls to the images/PDFs so that they can simply plug their drive into a USB port and present the info on the road, regardless of connection to the internet. Ben -----Original Message----- From: Roberto [mailto:prof3ta@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 11:58 AM To: Ben Miller Cc: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Backup to local drive Hi, you lost me a bit. Let say a user uploads a PDF file to one of your servers. What do you mean when you say "I want the users to be able to save the HTML output of their data"?!? Roberto Aloi http://aloiroberto.wordpress.com Twitter: @prof3ta On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Ben Miller <biprellim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello - I have an application I'm building that allows users to store > personal information and files (images, PDFs, etc.) in our database, but I > need a way for them to be able to save the HTML output of that personal data > to a local (for the user) flash drive. I'm guessing I'm going to need a > clientSide language like javascript for this, but was wondering if maybe > there was a PHP addon or something like that for downloading content to the > user's PC. Thanks in advance. > > > > Ben > > Why not create all the HTML files and images on the server, and zip it up then send that down to the user? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk That could end up in a lot of HTML and image files. Also, if you can't rely on people to unzip a file, can you rely on them to know that they need to keep the images with the HTML? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
