Save As box question

[OneSolution]

Hi All,

My users can pull up some information from the database and view it.
However, I want to give them the option to say "save" and so instead of
displaying it on screen, the script should format the data into a CSV format
and then pop up a box asking them to save it.

Is this something hard to do?

Thanks,
Santosh

[Michael Fuhr]

Re: Save As box question

"OneSolutio n" <onesolution@ja takainc.com> writes:
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> My users can pull up some information from the database and view it.
> However, I want to give them the option to say "save" and so instead of
> displaying it on screen, the script should format the data into a CSV format
> and then pop up a box asking them to save it.[/color]

Browsers typically pop up a "save" window when they don't know how
to handle a particular MIME type; in many browsers, setting the
document's Content-Type to application/octet-stream will make this
happen. You can use the Content-Disposition header to suggest a
filename. Here's an example:

header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=foo.cs v");

--
Michael Fuhr

http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/

[OneSolution]

Re: Save As box question

Thanks.

"Michael Fuhr" <mfuhr@fuhr.org > wrote in message
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> "OneSolutio n" <onesolution@ja takainc.com> writes:
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> > My users can pull up some information from the database and view it.
> > However, I want to give them the option to say "save" and so instead of
> > displaying it on screen, the script should format the data into a CSV[/color][/color]
format[color=blue][color=green]
> > and then pop up a box asking them to save it.[/color]
>
> Browsers typically pop up a "save" window when they don't know how
> to handle a particular MIME type; in many browsers, setting the
> document's Content-Type to application/octet-stream will make this
> happen. You can use the Content-Disposition header to suggest a
> filename. Here's an example:
>
> header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
> header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=foo.cs v");
>
> --
> Michael Fuhr
> http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/[/color]