On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 15:04 -0700, Ben Miller wrote: > That’s exactly why I need something that will put all the needed files > directly onto the flash drive – to take that responsibility away from > the user. Pulling the data from the DB and creating the folder > structure is easy with PHP – just not sure how to copy that folder > structure and related files to the flash drive without the user having > to know much of anything about computers. Was hoping there is maybe a > PHP extension that I didn’t know about, but sounds like a client side > is going to be my best bet. > > > > > From: Ashley Sheridan [mailto:a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk] > Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 2:39 PM > To: Ben Miller > Cc: 'Roberto'; php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: RE: [PHP] Backup to local drive > > > > > > On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 14:36 -0700, Ben Miller wrote: > > > > Too much reliance on the user knowing how to extract the files to the flash > drive – need something that does it all for them so all they have to do is > insert the flash drive on their own computer to store the preformatted > presentation and then insert into a prospect’s computer and either a) > (preferred) run the presentation via an autoplay command or b) open the > presentation.html file. > > > Ben > > > From: Ashley Sheridan [mailto:a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk] > Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 2:25 PM > To: Ben Miller > Cc: 'Roberto'; php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: RE: [PHP] Backup to local drive > > > On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 14:25 -0700, Ben Miller wrote: > > Users would be updating data via form input (address, tel, product > catalogues, etc.) as well as uploading files (images, PDFs, etc.), creating > their own presentations and saving those presentations to a flash drive as > HTML files with calls to the images/PDFs so that they can simply plug their > drive into a USB port and present the info on the road, regardless of > connection to the internet. > Ben > -----Original Message----- > From: Roberto [mailto:prof...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 11:58 AM > To: Ben Miller > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] Backup to local drive > Hi, > you lost me a bit. Let say a user uploads a PDF file to one of your servers. > What do you mean when you say "I want the users to be able to save the > HTML output of their data"?!? > Roberto Aloi > http://aloiroberto.wordpress.com > Twitter: @prof3ta > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Ben Miller <biprel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello - I have an application I'm building that allows users to store > > personal information and files (images, PDFs, etc.) in our database, but I > > need a way for them to be able to save the HTML output of that personal > data > > to a local (for the user) flash drive. I'm guessing I'm going to need a > > clientSide language like javascript for this, but was wondering if maybe > > there was a PHP addon or something like that for downloading content to > the > > user's PC. Thanks in advance. > > > > > > > > Ben > > > > > > > > > Why not create all the HTML files and images on the server, and zip it up > then send that down to the user? > > > Thanks, > Ash > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > > > > > > > That could end up in a lot of HTML and image files. Also, if you can't > rely on people to unzip a file, can you rely on them to know that they > need to keep the images with the HTML? > > Thanks, > Ash > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > > > > > > >
PHP can't do anything like that, PHP is all on the server. Javascript doesn't have anything like that either, but JScript and VBScript do I believe, although that limits you to only Internet Explorer, and only if the user has allowed the unsafe actions. Your best bet is to maybe try to use a format that keeps it all in one file, such as a PDF. Another solution would be to have the HTML reference the images from your own hosting, and put the entire presentation in one file. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
