I mainly use Firefox instead of IE now, so I don't have the problem anymore :lol:

Firefox is good, but some parts of websites that work on IE don't work on it - I think that's it's only negative point.

Martin

this can be done in php by using the header function, without the need of javascript and it works in safari, internet explorer, mozilla (firefox), etc...

since you are using an html forum I'm assuming that this wasn't what you were looking for though

No, it's fine.

How would I make a download dialogue box appear when a user opens a certain page using PHP?

Thanks
Martin

$file is the actual file (with the path included)
$new_filename is the filename that you want to send to the user. So when they download this will be the name used by the browser

the first 3 headers force the browser to download the file each and every single time, eg it's not pulling it from the memory/dish cache

the content type is just sent as some binary data type
the content-disposition tell the browser to force a download, do not open in the browser, even if you have a plugin to open it.

i use this script for images, word documents, pdfs and it works just fine.

[php]if (is_file($file))
{
header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT");
header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate");
header("Pragma: no-cache");

header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".$new_filename);
readfile($file);
exit();
}[/php]

Sorry, I'm quite new to PHP and I'm not sure how I'd go about putting this script onto my site.

Could you give me a working example of this?

Thanks
Martin

I'd like to close this thread - it's drifting too far. Please start a new thread in the PHP forum.