looks exactly like what I showed you...

to make a html page act like a PHP you need to make sure that your server is PHP enabled, then add the following line to your httpd.conf file: if you don't have access to that file, then just add it to a .htaccess file

the problem is, you cannot add this to an exsisting html page, this must be on a page with no other textual content, or you will get a error saying headers already sent. Just copy and paste all that code into a file and name it with a .php extension, eg: download.php

How do I define the $file and $new_filename?

Martin

[PHP]
$file = 'yourfilename';
$new_filename = 'usersfilename';[/PHP]

I do this code, then put it on my site and direct my browser to it.
But it just displays the code.?.?

Here's the contents of the .php file:
[PHP]$file = 'http://www.martinkorner.host.sk/Swim To The Sea.exe';
$new_filename = 'Swim To The Sea';

{
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]

What am I doing wrong???

Please Help...

By the way my host does support PHP because I can get the phpinfo() function to display loads of info.

Martin

Sounds like php may not be enabled on your server, or the script's file isn't named properly. Please pm me the link.

EDIT!!_____________________

Make sure you enclose any php code in php opening and closing tags. <?php "php code" ?>

[PHP]<?php
$file = 'http://www.martinkorner.host.sk/Swim To The Sea.exe';
$new_filename = 'Swim To The Sea';

{
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]

martinkorner, I think you've been given some confusing help. Not incorrect help, just confusing.

From your posts, it is evident that you are not a PHP programmer and probably not even familiar with server-side web-development. So I think the examples shown you would simply confuse you.

One thing, the advice to configure you server to process HTML pages as PHP script is a bad idea--in my opinion. I think it's a bad idea for the same reason configuring SSI to work on all .html files is a bad idea. It slows down the serving of web pages. This is because normally a webserver will simply open and stream an .html file to the browser--the server does not attempt to read or process contents of the file. For PHP files, the web server must be configured to open and actually process the code, then return the HTML that results from that processed code to the browser.

What web server do you use? IIS on Windows? Apache on Windows? Apache on Linux? other?

Do you manage the web server yourself or have access to change the configuration?

I'd also like to know what your original request was. What kind of dialog do you want to pop? My assumption is that you want to have a link to download a file, but because of the file type, the file is opening in the Browser instead of prompting for a download. Is this your situation?

Thanks, this opens a download dialogue, but the downloaded file isn't anything (if you get me?)

Try going to
http://www[dot]martinkorner[dot]host[dot]sk/download.php
and you'll see what I mean.

By the way I changed 'Swim to the sea' to 'download.exe'.

(When I run the downloaded file I just get the black ms-dos box up with an error message)

Martin

Try changing
[PHP]$file = 'http://www.martinkorner.host.sk/Swim To The Sea.exe';
$new_filename = 'Swim To The Sea';
[/PHP]
To
[PHP]#Adjust to wherever your file exists on your server filesystem.
$file = 'c:\webroot\somefile.exe'; //Windows
$file = '/var/www/htdocs/somefile.exe'; //or Linux

$new_filename = 'mydownload.exe';
[/PHP]You can use a URL as a filename, but only if supported on your server as indicated in the PHP Documentation.
From http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.readfile.php

I've put that code in and it still doesn't work.?.?

and the bit about using an URL as a filename confused me - why would I want an URL as a filename?

Martin