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admin3cad41e2006-10-02 03:21:46 +0000[diff] [blame]62<p>The Download Helper lets you download data to your desktop.</p>
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65<h2>Loading this Helper</h2>
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67<p>This helper is loaded using the following code:</p>
68<code>$this->load->helper('download');</code>
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70<p>The following functions are available:</p>
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72<h2>force_download('<var>filename</var>', '<var>data</var>')</h2>
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admine334c472006-10-21 19:44:22 +0000[diff] [blame]74<p>Generates server headers which force data to be downloaded to your desktop. Useful with file downloads.
adminc167f2c2006-10-02 02:47:59 +0000[diff] [blame]75The first parameter is the <strong>name you want the downloaded file to be named</strong>, the second parameter is the file data.
76Example:</p>
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78<code>
79$data = 'Here is some text!';<br />
80$name = 'mytext.txt';<br />
81<br />
82force_download($name, $data);
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85<p>If you want to download an existing file from your server you'll need to read the file into a string:</p>
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87<code>
88$data = file_get_contents("/path/to/photo.jpg"); // Read the file's contents<br />
89$name = 'myphoto.jpg';<br />
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