Re: [PHP] launch app

2005-09-14 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, September 13, 2005 9:19 pm, Ed Lazor wrote: > What's the best way to send an executable to a client desktop in PHP? readfile("/full/path/to/file.exe"); > I'm doing a project where we need to check and see which files need to > be updated on a client-desktop. The idea is for a user to vis

RE: [PHP] launch app

2005-09-14 Thread mwestern
The only thing that you can do is the same as sourceforge.net does. Bring up a web page that says yadadad download this etc. then in the header make it redirect to a file on the web server after 3 seconds or something. Go download something off sourceforge to see what I'm on about. :) I have t

Re: [PHP] launch app

2005-09-14 Thread Niels Ganser
No way. PHP is server based you can't trigger anything on the client side. Use Javascript, ActiveX, XUL or the like. > What's the best way to send an executable to a client desktop in PHP? > > I'm doing a project where we need to check and see which files need to > be updated on a client-desktop