Posted by Todd Cary on 11/13/05 01:10

Yup! It was the missing parentheses! Works as planned.

Many thanks....

The "application/text" gives the user the ability; "text/plain" does not
seem to do that. I just tried "application/text" since I use
"application/pdf" for other applications.

Todd

Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote:
> Todd Cary wrote:
>
>> My client's new shared server does not allow printing to a file, so I
>> want my print statement to print to a buffer, then I'll send it to the
>> user via Headers. This does not work since "print" does no go to the
>> buffer, or at least appears not to: I get the errors from the header
>> statements;
>>
>> <?
>> ob_start;
>
>
> You're missing some parentheses on the ob_start function. I think you
> meant to write:
>
> ob_start();
>
>> print "This is a test<bf>";
>
>
> You probably meant <br> in that string too.
>
>> $buf = ob_get_contents();
>> $len = strlen($buf);
>> ob_end_clean();
>> header("Content-type: application/text");
>
>
> application/text isn't a MIME-Type, is it? Do you mean text/plain?
>
>> header("Content-Length: $len");
>> header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=Sfyc.html");
>> print($buf);
>> ?>
>>
>> Todd
>>

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