OT:Is this the right forum for HTML help?

[Ruatha]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Well if you want to write it yourself, guess that leaves me off the hook. But if you do want me to, just tell me specifically what you want the script to do.

Ok, I'll let you do the job and then see if I can understand how it works, here goes:

When pressing the link
&#060a href="gamefile"&#062&#060img border=0 width=34 height=34
src="images/getturn.png"&#062Get latest game turn file &#060br&#062&#060/a&#062
it should find the first file in the directory gamefile and initiate a download to the client of that file.

the href="gamefile" ofcourse can be substituted for whatever, it's the icon and text in the link that needs to be preserved.

gamefile is a subdirectory to the server directory which is d:\data\server

Doable?
PHP is installed now and seems to work ok.

[ August 14, 2003, 04:27: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[Fyron]

What do you mean by "first file in the directory"? You can sort files in any order you want, so there isn't a first file. Do you mean the file containing the latest turn? That should be fairly easy, just a simple while loop testing each file to see if it has a larger number than the Last.

Also, how are the files named? Do you name them all the same way, but just with a different number in each filename?

[ August 14, 2003, 04:29: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Ruatha]

Hey.
PHP looks much easier than CGI, why didn't I check this out before?

[Fyron]

Dunno. Care to answer my question?

[Fyron]

I have your script written, I just need to know what the file naming scheme is.

Actually, go here to see it in action:

http://www.spaceempires.net/ruatha/

There are 4 files in the folder:
ng1.zip
ng01.zip
ng12.zip
ng3.zip

You can d/l the script here:

http://www.spaceempires.net/ruatha/index.zip

You will need to set the appropriate path info and such, as commented in the script.

[ August 14, 2003, 04:53: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Ruatha]

Sure.
When I do a script that looks for files in the directory it dirst returns the directorys "." and ".." and then a filenamen for the turn file, and I don't want it to try and download the current or above directory !
The turnfiles are named NGC3_57.zip with 57 variable.

I've done this but it seems to download into the browser and view the file there, and it gives header errors and I can't seem to get the path right!
So I'll be watching your script when it comes!!

That is propably what you'll get when you try to patch several scripts together!

[ August 14, 2003, 05:00: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[Ruatha]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
I have your script written, I just need to know what the file naming scheme is.

Actually, go here to see it in action:

http://www.spaceempires.net/ruatha/

There are 4 files in the folder:
ng1.zip
ng01.zip
ng12.zip
ng3.zip

You can d/l the script here:

http://www.spaceempires.net/ruatha/index.zip

You will need to set the appropriate path info and such, as commented in the script.

Thanx, will check it out now!

[Ruatha]

Good,
I changed the path and the Last character from g to _ and so far it works ok.

Thanx Fyrons PHP script at my site (Not incorporated yet)

Now I just need it to start an automatic download instead of making a link....

This is the script I made prior to yours, it finds the right file but as I said I get header errors and it shows the content in the browser:
http://ruatha.homelinux.org/test.txt


Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at d:\data\server\test.php:1) in d:\data\server\test.php on line 38

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at d:\data\server\test.php:1) in d:\data\server\test.php on line 40

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at d:\data\server\test.php:1) in d:\data\server\test.php on line 42

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at d:\data\server\test.php:1) in d:\data\server\test.php on line 50

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at d:\data\server\test.php:1) in d:\data\server\test.php on line 52

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at d:\data\server\test.php:1) in d:\data\server\test.php on line 54

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at d:\data\server\test.php:1) in d:\data\server\test.php on line 58

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at d:\data\server\test.php:1) in d:\data\server\test.php on line 60

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at d:\data\server\test.php:1) in d:\data\server\test.php on line 62

and then it starts to show text of the content of the zip file, not what I had in mind!

[ August 14, 2003, 05:22: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[Fyron]

Well... I am not really a PHP expert, so I am not sure about those header lines. If the syntax is correct, it may be that your install of PHP does not support them or something. My guess would be that they are not really necessary though...

Don't forget to format the page how you want. The easiest way would be to include a HTML file before and after the echo statements, such as this:

include ("header.html");

These files would just be the portions of the page above and below where the turn file is to be displayed.

[Ruatha]

It seems to have something with not being allowed to send any information to the browser before the headers, I've removed all text output before the headers but still...

If the headers aren't needed, how to make the browser download the file without the need of clicking any link??

[ August 14, 2003, 05:41: Message edited by: Ruatha ]