PHP :: Download File Using Form Button

Download A File From A Form Button
I can't get a form coding to recognize a download.php to download a file to
the client. I need the edits of the form for a MySQL table, but the
following form code only wants to download 'download.php' and won't access
download.php so the code can take affect. How can the action item call
download.php?

<form name="form1" method="post" action="download.php"
onSubmit="

MM_validateForm('LastName','','R');MM_validateForm ('email','','NisEmail');
MM_validateForm('email','','R');
MM_validateForm('FirstName','','R');
return document.MM_returnValue">
<p><b><font size="3">First Name:</font></b>
<input type="text" name="FirstName" maxlength="50" size="30">
<font size="3"><b> Last Name:</b></font>
<input type="text" name="LastName" maxlength="50" size="30">
</p>
eMail:
<input type="text" name="email" size="40" maxlength="50">
</b></p>
<input type="submit" value="Download" />
</form>

Upload File Having Browse Button And Submit Button On Same Form
I am building a form where the user must upload a picture and fill in his
details.
Now I have a problem as all of this is on the same form.

How will I be able to have the Browse button to open the "file browse"
dialog
and the Submit button to submit the form data.

As I believe you can not use GET but must use POST method for form.
Is there any means that I can use GET cause I need to get form variables
from URL as well.

Download File And Delete File From Server With One Button Click
I want the user to be able to download a CSV file and delete the file from the server all with the click of a button. Currently, in firefox, it will just display the CSV and not delete it. In IE, it will download the CSV and not delete it. Code:

Click A Button To Download A File
i was wondering if this was possible, when a user wants to download a file from my server say: filename.pdf they need to "right click" save as to get it, but i was wondering if there was a way i could have a regular submit button do it for example:

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Download File" />
once it's clicked it pops up the download box

Download Button
I want to make a "download" button on my website that when pressed will download a file from my server. This is the code:

Making A Download Button
i currently use a basic link of text so users can down files like so:

<a href="download.php?id='.$id.'"><font color="red" size="5"> '.$file_name.' </font>

but i was wanting to make it an actual button i have tried this below but no joy

<form action="download.php?id='.$id.'"><input type="submit" value="Download"></form>

can anyone give me some advice on how to do it correctly.

Display Files Inside A Directory? With Download Button.
My first version of simple code, display files and directories but when i tried only to display pdf files and subdirectories inside the given path, with pagination and downloadable option, everything went wrong. Code:

Form Submit Button
Should be a quickie but I just can't get it to work.

I have a form where my users can submit their football picks, when they
click submit I would like another sized window to appear (mnf_scores.htm)
where they can submit a total score for the Monday night football game each
week. From the research I've done I think I need the following:

// If this is change picks, output the submit button and close the form
if ($userfunc==1) {
echo "<p><input type="submit" value="Submit Your Picks!"
onclick="window.open('mnf_scores.htm','MNF Scores')"/></p>
</form>
";
}

But that just doesn't seem to work. The submit part works but the subsequent
window is not opened.

Preview Form Button
What I want to do is print all the values entered in a form for the user without the form text. Then it should let them submit the form from this "preview screen." The problem is that that form loses the values on the preview page for the finish button. Does everyone just create hidden inputs to do this, or is there an easier way?

Form Button Click Itself.
is it possible that on a php script that i can make the form button click itself.

so i have a button that when a certain argument happens i want to click on itself thus resetting itself and doing the php script associated with the button being clicked the php is on a form on php self. know it sounds strange but i have some coding that needs to reset itself and only does that when the button is clicked just want a work around. failing that is it possible to use jave to achive this.

2 Submit Button In A Form
2 buttons - update and delete as submit button. I cant use the $_POST or $_GET METHOD as it cant use.

Before the form is submited, it is required for fields validation. validation will be done by the client side. How can i skip doing with the POST and GET method.

Validate Button Radio In Form
I use php and javascript on a form.
My validate script doesn't work with radio button. What's wrong? I
want to be sure that one of the button is press. M or F

I get on my first page:

How To Determine Which Button Was Pressed On <form>
I am having a heck of a time trying to understand how to use graphical buttons in my PHP scripts to interpret user selections. A great example is the list of buttons across the top of this forum (user cp, register, calendar, etc.).

Now, I know how to create an <a href><img></a> graphical link and an <input type="image"...> button element for a form, but what I cannot for the life of me figure out is how to tell on a subsequent POST of my form which, of many graphical buttons, was pressed. PHP Code:

Form Button Names As Variables
perhaps I am just a little tired, but I am having trouble with my form
buttons.

Firstly I name them like this
name="round".$counter."heats"
which results in variables
$round1heats
$round2heats
$round3heats
etc...
now, when I select button named ... "round1heats" ... I want to use the
variable $round1heats to remove the button "round1heats", and display heats
set for the round. To do that I assumed that I would have to:-
IF(isset($round1heats)){
show other stuff instead etc
}else{
generate and print html for button "round1heats"
}

My problem is, since all this is dynamic, since the number of heats is
variable, and is dependant on DB entries, how do I generate the $round1heats
used in the isset() so that it is recognised as a variable by the isset().
I have tried, to concat the bits as I have done in the naming of the button,
but, unsurprisingly, it spits out errors ;)
[note, $counter is still available, and is limited to the number of rounds
registered in DB.]
OR, have I been barking up the wrong tree altogether?

A Preview And Submit Button On Same Form
I have two buttons on the same form, much like here when you post a new thread, you have the option to preview. Using isset is not working for me, PHP Code:

Refreshing Form Without Using Refresh Button
how to refresh a form fields without using Refresh button? instead, i want to use arrays.
that's what I do whenever I want to refresh my textfields in the form...the variables listed below are the names of my textboxes...

$Title = ''
$CallNum = ''
$CatalogDate = ''
$LCCN = ''
$ISSN = ''
$CatalogSourceCode = ''

Use A Button To Reset Form Values
How can I reset the initial form variables that are set with session
statements when clicking on a button?

I tried this but the function was not called:
<?PHP
function reset_form($none) { $_SESSION = array(); }
?>

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" name="company_info" method="post"
action="add_pic.php">

<input type="text" name="co_name" value ="<?PHP echo $_SESSION['co_name'];
?>" >

<input type="reset" value="Reset" onClick ="<?PHP reset_form();?>">

</form>

Form Submit Button Question
For a web page, I want a SUBMIT button that commits the form data and a
CANCEL button that goes to a different target (i.e. a different script).

I haven't figured out how to do this, because the <FORM ACTION="... tag
seems to make sure that any two submit controls in a form have to go to the
same target.

BTW, the CANCEL button does not have to submit any form data.

Posting From A Form Without A Submit Button - How?
Given something like:

if ( $_POST['type_save'] == 'Save record to HTGI public DB') {
echo '<form method="post" action="populate08.php">'
echo '<input type=hidden name="kw_tarea" value='.$tk.'>'
echo '</form>'
echo '<p>permanent DB updated'
}

But there's no button to press for a submit. So how do I get this code
posted to the action=populate08 ? Without pressing a buttom but just
from the code?

Calling Functions From A Form Button?
Is it possible to call a function from a Form button, as I have a function that auto creates a form and I pass the values to it. Since doing this I can not reset the form as it reads the values and re-puts them back in. Is there a way to call a function or some other way to reset the form. I use the same page for all the changes using Switch to display different things. Code:

Add A Text Box Form To Buy Button Code:
cuttently we have this code which generates a buy button on a page. where the "product_ref" call the data.

Is there an easy way to add a text box with one of these codes so a number can be entered in to post to the cart as well so the item can be personalised? Code:

Access Button In HTML File Through PHP File
I’m new to PHP and I’m working on a code and having a problem .
The problem is that I’m having an HTML file like this :

////////////////////////////////////

<p>some text</p> <form action="/project/myfile.php" method="post"> <input type="button" name="mybutton.1" value=" mybutton "><input type="text" name="aaa" /> </form>

<p> some text </p> <form action="/project/myfile.php" method="post"> <input type="button" name=" mybutton.2" value=" mybutton "><input type="text" name="aaa" /> </form>

//////////////////////////////////////

I want to open a new HTML file to the user when he clicks on any of these buttons . I want to do this in the file named “myfile.php “ . What should I write in the file “myfile.php “ to get access to each button and open a new page when the user clicks on it? Is it correct to put " action="/project/myfile.php""? Should I put include the HTML file in my PHP file? I want also to remember which button the user clicks on.

Hitting Enter On A Form Instead Of Clicking The Button
I'm getting incorrect response when hitting the enter key instead of
actually clicking the button on a form. It activates but the post data
[value='Update'] isn't being sent I think. The php generated page
flickers & reloads but doesn't perform the update.

This is php generated, I'm just pasting the page source (reformatted &
extra junk removed and I think they are now identical), and it's running
on my localhost apache server for testing so maybe there's something
funny with my setup. Crossposted to html & php groups.

Must click button (no enter):

<form action='?SC=cart.php' method='POST'>
<tr>
<td>
<input type='hidden' name='item' value=&#55618;&#57133;'>name
</td>
<td>
<input type='submit' name='buy' value='Update'>
</td>
<td>
<input type='text' name='item_qty' size=Ƈ' value=ƈ'>
</td>
</tr>
</form>

Enter or click works fine:

<form action='?SC=cart.php' method='POST'>
<tr>
<td>
<input type='hidden' name='item' value=&#55619;&#56572;'>name
</td>
<td>
<input type='submit' name='buy' value='Update'>
</td>
<td>
<input type='text' name='item_qty' size=Ƈ' value=ƈ'>
</td>
</tr>
</form>

Here they are without me fixing up the formatting:

Must click button (no enter):

<form action='?SC=cart.php' method='POST'><tr>
<td><input type='hidden' name='item' value=&#55619;&#56572;'>Adiantum jordanii / -
1 gal</td>
<td><input type='submit' name='buy' value='Update'></td>
<td><input type='text' name='item_qty' size=Ƈ' value=Ƈ'></td>
<td>$ 9.00 </td><td>$ 9.00 </td><td>0%</td>
<td>10%</td>
</tr></form>

Enter or click works fine:

<form action='?SC=cart.php' method='POST'><tr>
<td><input type='hidden' name='item' value=&#55618;&#57133;'>Adiantum jordanii / -
1 gal</td>
<td><input type='submit' name='buy' value='Update'></td>
<td><input type='text' name='item_qty' size=Ƈ' value=ƈ'></td>
<td>$ 10.00 </td><td>$ 20.00 </td></tr></form>
<tr><th colspan=Ɗ' align='right'>Tax:</td><td>$
1.70</td><td> </td></tr>
<tr><th colspan=Ɗ' align='right'>Delivery:</td><td>$
0.00</td><td> </td></tr>
<tr><th colspan=Ɗ' align='right'>Order Total:</th><th>$ 21.70</th>
<th><form action='?SC=checkout.php' method='post'><input type='submit'
name='checkout' value='Checkout'></form>

Process Form Only After Submit Button Pressed
I have an "update personal info" page which includes a form and the corresponding query on the same page (using PHPSELF in the form action). It would be great to run the code and see a success message only AFTER the submit button is pressed. Would this work: PHP Code:

Form / Results / Navigator's Back Button
I have a research form script, a result list script and an item page. Just
classic!

form page => result list page => item page

When I'm at the item page and I click on the Navigator's back button I have
the following message:

Avertissement : expiration du délai pour cette page

La page requise a été créée en utilisant les informations fournies dans un
formulaire. Cette page n'est plus disponible. Par sécurité, Internet
Explorer ne renvoie pas automatiquement les informations vous concernant.

Pour envoyer vos informations à nouveau et afficher cette page Web, cliquez
sur le bouton Actualiser .

The normal use in fact .

Is there any way to get to the list again?

Passing Radio Button Form Data
I am running php as a sapi module on winXP with Apache. I am passing the data from a radio button from one page to another to be processed. For some reason it seems to be passing no data - for example in the 1st page I would have 3 radio buttons in a loop:
<input type='radio' name='radio' value="<?php echo $val ?>">

I would then attempt to read the data in page 2 : <?php echo $radio ?> but this comes up empty. I tried using "get" in my form, and although the name/value pair appears in the URL string, it does not pass itself to the $radio variable in the next page. What the??? Does anyone know of any reason why php would NOT allow a radio button (or any other form object) it's data to pass on. I am not using sessions.

FORM MEMORY ON PRESSING BACK BUTTON
Do most browsers retain form fillup memory of previous page ? That is
when the user presses back button, the forms on the previous page come
up filled.

Creating Link To File Or Temp File For User Download
I am designing a document management system (DMS). The files are stored
in a directory on the webserver. The filenames for the documents are
stored in a MySQL database. The DMS will track revisions from the
initial version through the updates. We must have strict permissions
set so only authorized personnel can access some documents. All of the
documents when uploaded are given totally random names such as
"114723fb5422c6bd5ed18f6.doc". Is there a way, without the webserver
creating a new file name "document_specs_ver2.doc" to have the file
download named "document_specs_ver2.doc".

If I must physically create a new file, how do I know when the
webserver would be allowed to delete it? Notes: The files will be in
several different file formats, not just "doc".

Header Function, File Download, Temp File Disappears
I have the following headers:

if (preg_match("/compatible; MSIE/i", "$browser_type")){
header("Content-Tranfer-Encoding: binary");
header("Content-type: ".$assoc["type"]."");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="".$assoc["name"].""");}
echo $assoc["file"];

which starts the download of an mp3 file in one particular case. If you do not save target as and just select 'open' the temp file is zero bytes even though the download process took a while and showd how much progress you were making. So something is happening to the temp file.

Form Data Lost On Browsers Back Button
How is it possible that when a user fills in a form that i made, sends it and then hits the browsers back-button the form is empty. The strangest thing is that when i take these steps everything is ok. I think it has something to do with the settings in apache or php.

Loading A Form On Button Click (client-side)
Hi can anyone show me how to load a simple form (i.e. make its contents
visible) on the click of a button (not in that same form).

Right Button Click On Any URL Posts That Url To A Server-side Form
this isn't really a php question.
But php is involved, sort of, and I usually get good
answers here, regardless.

I want to build a browser (perhaps as a firefox plugin)
that, for any right-button click on any url on any page, posts the url
to
a server-side php form, that prompts for additional descriptive
metadata and
then inserts that link into a mysql schema.

I know how to do all the server-side php/mysql stuff, but I don't know
how to connect
any right-click on any url (inside the client) as a post to my
server-side URL.

I can imagine this happening, vaguely, as a firefox plugin mechanism.
Does anybody know of any how-to examples, that do something like this?
Or is there an even easier, pure javascript way to do this?

How To Perform IF Stement Depending On Value Of Form Radio Button
I have a form with a radio button and depending on the value of it's 'yes' or 'no' I want to perform 2 differnet SQL queries. Code:

Preventing Back/forward Button Form Resubmission
I have a site that is form intensive and would like to prevent users on my site from resubmitting forms when they press back or forward, which they will likely do at some point no matter how I program it.

So, I am interested from hearing from people who 1) had the same need and 2) implemented something in PHP with which they were satisfied. How did you go about doing this?

Form Submission (no Button) Using PHP+cURL+ Transfer Control To Other Site
I'm trying to send data using the POST method and also have control of the browser be turned over to the website that's receiving the POST data (note that this is NOT the same as sending the data via POST method and then redirecting to the website after). I need it to work exactly like hitting the submit button on an html form, and I need it to work from PHP. It needs to POST the data to the site and also let the other site have control at the same time.

I've tried a couple of methods using both cURL and an fsocket function, but it seems like in both cases that (1) the data gets sent to the other site first, (2) then my program gets a response back, (3) and then it redirects to the other site afterwards. The data gets sort of POSTed to the other site (I get a 200 response back, and I get info showing it was posted correctly), but since the other site does not get control, it seems to dump (not save) the posted data. Code:

Passing POST Data On Link Click, And Not Form Button
is it possible to send a form data to a page, using a link instead of a button?

id prefer not to have to rely on javascript, so i would like it to be ras html, or the like..

Pressing Browser Back Button - Form Filled Data Disappeared
When filling out a web form on a php page that is submitted to a search
which lists the results based on the criteria provided (in the form), all
works fine and as expected.

However, when I press the back button to amend the form all of the search
criteria data has gone and I have to fill it all out again if I want to do a
similar search which is frustrating. (This does not actually happen in
Firefox browser but most of my users will be using IE). How can I prevent
this from happening?

Previously I made a post about avoiding "Page has expired" and the
conclusion I came to for that was not to use a "POST" which did the trick.
But now I want to retain the data I input?

Executing A File When A Button Is Clicked
I was wondering if someone could help me. I want to execute a .reg file when the user clicks a certain button. does anybody know how to do this. i already have the file created but i don't know the code to execute it if button clicked.

Write A Button To A Text File
I am trying to do is keep a record of all the buttons that are pressed in my website (in a text file) so that I can see the parts of the site that are used. The buttons are links between pages, so I want to see what is clicked from where etc. Code:

.txt File Download - How?
I'd like to get a prompt for a .txt file download instead of displaying it in the browser. The way things are setup now is that when a link in the nav menu is click it's pointed to download.php:

Download A File Using Php
An affiliate company i work with has a feed they publish, and I'd like to download and save it as a txt file on my server.

How can I do this using php? I'm assuming I need write a small script that will get the file on their server, save it on my server (and change the extension to txt). Then I'm going to run this script via a cronjob.

Can anyone point me in the right direction to get started on this? I'm not sure which php command I need to use to grab the feed from the other server.

File?download
I have an mpg file which I am throwing on a site for a client to download if he so chooses. I know I could zip it up and let him extract it, but I was essentially looking for how to allow my site to have a link where he could click to download the .mpg file. I have it embedded, and I have it so where they can click the link, and it'll open up a new browser to view it. But I'd rather have them download without having to right click and save as. Any help would be greatly appreciated. The site is done in PHP, and I understood there was a way in PHP to do this.

PHP File Download
I'm making an "online harddisc" type of thing, where the user can among other things upload and download files. But I cant figure out how to do the download to the client. Let me spesify; I can do the download, but the file gets the name of the php-script.

Someone said:
<quote> make the link thar specifies the script/file like this http://somewhere.com/download.php3/originalfilename.txt?var=anyvariables
Then in the script download.php3 put this after doing your processing Header("Content-type: application/RFC822"); readfile($copyfile); </quote>

What does dowload.php3/orig.txt mean??? Why the '/'???
And the problem; the browser tries to download 'downlaod.php3' instead...
My test file: Code:

File-up- And Download
I`m trying to write a script, to upload files to a server and afterwards the users shall have the possibility to download all already uploaded files. Code:

File Download
I've just set up an apache web server on my Linux system. I would like to allow people to click on a link and download a file (from my server) using a php 4 web page - but i dont want to use ftp to transfer the file (i dont want to run an ftp daemon on my server).
Is there an easy way to do this?

Also a quick question on security - is there any way a remote user can get to see the php4 code via the web server (ie using only port 80 - assuming the rest of the server is secure etc)?

File Download Through Php
I have a problem when doing indirect download of file through php, when
I click on download link Firefox and Internet Explorer give me same
options: Open and Save. Firefox opens file directly from Internet and
downloads without problem.

Internet Explorer saves file on local disk and I can open it from disk
correctly but when I try to open it directly from Internet it responds
with "There was an error opening this document. This file cannot be
found.", concrete situation in my usage is Pdf document. Below is my
concrete code,

<?php
ob_start();
include_once("config.php");
ini_set('display_errors', 'Off');
error_reporting(0);

$args = trim($_SERVER["PATH_INFO"]);
$args = preg_replace("/^//i", '', $args);
$argv = explode('/', $args);
$id = (int)$argv[0];

import('dao.fm.file');
$f = fm_file::instance($id);

if($f->get('id') < 1) {
die('No file.');
}
header('Content-Disposition: attachment');
header('Accept-Charset: UTF-8');
header('Content-Type: '.$f->get('type').' charset="UTF-8";');
readfile(get('FILES').'/'.$f->get('id'));
ob_end_flush();
?>

How To Download A File??
i want to create
a "download files" system - something like "download.com" - but like
"download.com" i dont want the direct link to the file to show i want
it to be something like :

"http://www.myhomepage.com/getfile.php?id=132"

the idea is to optain the id through the "$_GET" and then get the path
of the file from the DB ...but then what?the "header()" function wont
work unless its the 1st function to be called so i cant query the DB
for the file path then call it!! or is there any other function i can
use to send the file to the user ?

How To Download A File With Php?
I know how to make a http request with php using CURL extention. My question is "Can I make a http download request to a server from my php script and save it?"

Download A Rar File
As the title says, I'm trying to download a rar file when a button is clicked. So far Images, Videos, and Zip files download successfully.

Here are the mime types I've tried using

application/force-download
application/x-download
application/octet-stream
application/x-rar-compressed
application/x-rar
application/x-compressed
application/rar

None have worked. The mime type that I got from PHP for the file when I uploaded it was "application/x-rar-compressed" but that didn't do a thing :-/
I'll click the download button, it'll ask me to save the file and the download is done instantly. 0kb in size.

Download File Using Form Button

I'm having a bit of difficulty with my download page. I'm trying to get a file to download from a path I set when the button is pressed, however the header() doesn't seem to like me entering the path to the file.