PHP copy to local machine?

[Somedude]

Hello,

I am building a small page to copy files from our server(s) to our users
local machines. It's very simple...
(below, "f" is a mapped network drive)

<?php

$source_file = 'f:\somefile.whatever';
$destination_path = (I want to move it to the USERS
C:\somedirectory\somefile);

copy($source_file, $destination_path);

?>

How can I accomplish this? Thanks for any help!!

[Ken Robinson]

Somedude wrote:

Hello,

I am building a small page to copy files from our server(s) to our users local machines. It's very simple...
(below, "f" is a mapped network drive)

<?php

$source_file = 'f:\somefile.whatever';
$destination_path = (I want to move it to the USERS
C:\somedirectory\somefile);

copy($source_file, $destination_path);

?>

How can I accomplish this? Thanks for any help!!

You can't accomplish this using PHP. Remember PHP runs on the SERVER,
which I assume is a different machine than the user's local machine.
The best you could do would be to copy it to a networked directory that
is accessible by both the webserver process and each user.

You might be able to create a Javascript script via PHP and an HTML
source file that invokes it, then switch control to that file to do the
copy.

Ken

[Somedude]

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Somedude wrote:

Hello,

I am building a small page to copy files from our server(s) to our

users

local machines. It's very simple...
(below, "f" is a mapped network drive)

<?php

$source_file = 'f:\somefile.whatever';
$destination_path = (I want to move it to the USERS
C:\somedirectory\somefile);

copy($source_file, $destination_path);

?>

How can I accomplish this? Thanks for any help!!

You can't accomplish this using PHP. Remember PHP runs on the SERVER,
which I assume is a different machine than the user's local machine.
The best you could do would be to copy it to a networked directory that
is accessible by both the webserver process and each user.

You might be able to create a Javascript script via PHP and an HTML
source file that invokes it, then switch control to that file to do the
copy.

Ken

Thanks Ken. I do have local FTP available on the network. Would I be able
to accomplish this task now?

[\(¯`·..Yttrium ...·´¯\)]

> Thanks Ken. I do have local FTP available on the network. Would I be
able

to accomplish this task now?

Hi,
With FTP, no problem, you can do that easily..
Hav a look to " ftp_* php functions
bye

[Alvaro G Vicario]

*** Somedude wrote/escribió (Mon, 9 May 2005 09:40:45 -0400):

Thanks Ken. I do have local FTP available on the network. Would I be able
to accomplish this task now?

If you can you use FTP at the server to upload files to user's computers,
you can do it with PHP. However, I doubt you have an FTP server installed
and running on every computer.
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