Re: Backup to local drive

[Joseph Thayne <webadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

PHP cannot create a folder structure on your local machine.  I don't 
think Javascript or VBScript can either.  Your best bet is with the zip 
files.  Windows users have it fairly simple actually (as much as I hate 
to admit it) as all they would have to do is right-click and "Extract".  
You can always include instructions in either an on-screen format or a 
README file (or both). 

As I have been thinking about it, you are going to need to do a zip file 
so that the user only has to download a single file.

Joseph

Ashley Sheridan wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 15:04 -0700, Ben Miller wrote:
>   
> > 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: 
> >
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> > 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
> >  
> >  
> >  
> >  
> >
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> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >     
>
> PHP can't do anything like that, PHP is all on the server. Javascript
> doesn't have anything like that either, but JScript and VBScript do I
> believe, although that limits you to only Internet Explorer, and only if
> the user has allowed the unsafe actions.
>
> Your best bet is to maybe try to use a format that keeps it all in one
> file, such as a PDF.
>
> Another solution would be to have the HTML reference the images from
> your own hosting, and put the entire presentation in one file.
>
> Thanks,
> Ash
> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
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