How do i open a .exe file from php

[SSG001]

How do i open a .exe file from php where .prg file

[harshmaul]

you need to use content disposition to get it to the user. or enable the user to download it.

and then run it on the clients machine with a content disposition bat file. and that will only work if the client is on a windows machine.

[ronverdonk]

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[Atli]

Hi.

What exactly do you want to do with that EXE file?

Do you, as harshmaul suggested, want this to be executed on your client's computer?
Or do you want a program executed on your server?
Or something else that I'm not seeing?

What have you tried so far?
Can we see what you have tried?

[SSG001]

Actually i want to give prin to the user on dot matrix printer
so i want to convert my mysql tables to csv files and download the file in the particular folder on the clients machine when the print button is clicked and then open the exe so that user can directly choose the option and print from the exe which will have csv files converted to required format







Thanks in advance

[harshmaul]

You can use php and such to echo out what you want the user to be able to print. and then print using javascript.... like this....

window.print();

[SSG001]

I cannot use that since i'm going print on the dot matrix

and there bold and all such enhancements will not be shown correctly