Creating "Save as..." Popup in Javascript

[Goran]

i have a question, okey maybe it's not directly relevant with PHP.
i have a webpage that contains .doc and .txt files, of course when you click any icon with left mouse click then windows opening the .doc or .txt files.
can i propmt the user with "save target as" dialog box when he/she left click to icons with java script? i dont want to tell them that hey, please right click and save (and i dont wanna zip the files).
How can i do this? it is possible with java (xor with PHP help)?

[Calamitie]

I am almost certain you can't do this what-so-ever, but you can send a header (in PHP) that forces the browser to prompt for download.

I can't remember the actual header - it's something like "Content-type: application/[something]".

Hope that helps a little...

[Goran]

Thank , I hope someone will add smth too)))

[Calamitie]

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[<? Ashley ?>]

This may do it:

 <?php
header("Content-disposition: attachment;
filename=name-of-file");
?>  

[Mike Tomasello]

I was just stumbling around the PHP manual looking for something completely unrelated and came across this:

If you want the user to be prompted to save the data you are sending, such as a generated PDF file, you can use the Content-Disposition header to supply a recommended filename and force the browser to display the save dialog.

<?php
// We'll be outputting a PDF
header('Content-type: application/pdf');

// It will be called downloaded.pdf
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="downloaded.pdf"');

// The PDF source is in original.pdf
readfile('original.pdf');
?>

Note: There is a bug in Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 that prevents this from working. There is no workaround. There is also a bug in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 that interferes with this, which can be resolved by upgrading to Service Pack 2 or later.

Seems to be what Ashley suggested! Only giving the content-type as well.

Mike