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Osama Ahmad
Osama Ahmad

Reputation: 235

save file onclick

I want to be able to download the csv file on click and not open in the browser

I put this code

<a href="file.csv">download file</a>

but on click it opens thev file in the browser. In localhost, when I click the link it is being downloaded but when on the server it's opening in the browser

Upvotes: 6

Views: 14777

Answers (3)

MFix
MFix

Reputation: 229

HTML5 gives you another way - download attribute. The problem is currently only Chrome supports it. It will take some time till it will become widely used solution.

So for now I would recommend you @AVD's PHP code.

Upvotes: 2

KV Prajapati
KV Prajapati

Reputation: 94653

You have to set headers in order to inform web-browser for opening file-save dialog.

download.php

  <?php
    header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
    header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=sample.csv");
    readfile('file.csv');
   ?>

showlinks.php

<a href="download.php">Download file</a>

Upvotes: 11

Ahsan Khurshid
Ahsan Khurshid

Reputation: 9469

Try Using following JS Code:

<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript:document.execCommand('SaveAs','1','file.csv')>download file</a>

Upvotes: 1

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