Posted by Stephen Johnson on 03/07/05 19:32

You have to trick the browser into thinking that the jpg file is something
other then a jpg. This is sketchy and does not always work.

Something like this maybe
$len = filesize($file_path);
header("Content-Type: application/force-download");
header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$file");
header("Content-Title: $file_path");
header("Content-Length: $len");
readfile($file_path);

$fh=fopen($file_path,'rt');
@fclose($fh);

HTH

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> From: zzapper <david@tvis.co.uk>
> Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:19:30 +0000
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: [PHP] Re: A general question
>
>
>> How can I click on a link which is linked to a JPG file and instead of
>> displaying it in the browser save it somewhere on the local machine or
>> open in a different software ?
>>
>> Please help very urgent
>>
>> Thanks
>> vaibhav

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