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Manikandan Thangaraj
Manikandan Thangaraj

Reputation: 1594

download the text file instead of opening in the browser

i have one text file:

When i click the Download it should download and save it in my local download path.

I have tried.

window.open("data.txt");

and

header("Location:data.txt")

But both are open the text file browser it self. I what download the txt file.

Any one please help me..

Thanks

Manikandan.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 11914

Answers (5)

Rajasekar Gunasekaran
Rajasekar Gunasekaran

Reputation: 1827

http headers may solve your problem, just referr

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_header_fields

Upvotes: 4

Vamsi Krishna B
Vamsi Krishna B

Reputation: 11490

if you are using apache and want to enforce downloading the txt files instead of opening them in browser. you can do using .htaccess

AddType application/octet-stream .txt

Upvotes: 0

Sergey Ratnikov
Sergey Ratnikov

Reputation: 1296

Try this:

$file = "data.txt";
$text = file_get_contents($file);
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$file\"");
echo $text;

Upvotes: 7

DSharper
DSharper

Reputation: 3217

Can you use this Jquery plugin http://jdownloadplugin.com/ to do the file download. It has many additional cool features for file downloading from web.

Upvotes: 0

Dmitriy R
Dmitriy R

Reputation: 613

I can tell you that you need to set header content-disposition as file attachment, but I do not know how to do it from JavaScript.

Upvotes: -1

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