Ultimate goal: I want to create a webpage where a user can enter information in forms. With that information I want to create a html file (below called test-download.html) by inserting the information given into a template and then force a download. Since I want to demonstrate this at an upcoming workshop where people will be using this at the “same time” I would like to not save the file on the server and just force the download.
So far: I have this in my html file (test.html):
<form action="test.php" method="post">
To file: <input type="text" name="tofile" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
and this in my test.php:
<?php
$filename = 'test-download.html';
$htmlcode1 = "<HTML> \n <BODY>";
$htmlcode2 = "</BODY> \n <HTML>";
$somecontent = $htmlcode1.$_POST["tofile"].$htmlcode2;
!$handle = fopen($filename, 'w');
fwrite($handle, $somecontent);
fclose($handle);
header("Cache-Control: public");
header("Content-Description: File Transfer");
header("Content-Length: ". filesize("$filename").";");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename");
header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream; ");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
readfile($filename);
?>
This overwrites the file test-download.html file and forces a download.
Question: How can I do this without messing with a file (the test-download.html) on the server?
Instead of saving it to a file, just
echoit after you send the headers.