download the text file instead of opening in the browser

Question

i have one text file:

When i click the Download it should download and save it in my local download path.

I have tried.

window.open("data.txt");

and

header("Location:data.txt")

But both are open the text file browser it self. I what download the txt file.

Any one please help me..

Thanks

Manikandan.

You can set a MIME-type on the server like `application/octet-stream`, or set a `Content-Disposition` header with a value like "attachment; filename=someFile.txt" to force a download of any content-type. — aroth, Aug 03 '11 at 05:21
check this if it helps to you http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1066452/easiest-way-to-open-a-download-window-without-navigating-away-from-the-page — DSharper, Aug 03 '11 at 05:26

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 03 '11 at 07:55

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Try this:

$file = "data.txt";
$text = file_get_contents($file);
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$file\"");
echo $text;

answered Aug 03 '11 at 07:55

Sergey Ratnikov

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score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 10 '11 at 17:29

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http headers may solve your problem, just referr

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_header_fields

answered Aug 10 '11 at 17:29

Rajasekar Gunasekaran

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 03 '11 at 05:36

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Can you use this Jquery plugin http://jdownloadplugin.com/ to do the file download. It has many additional cool features for file downloading from web.

answered Aug 03 '11 at 05:36

DSharper

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 03 '11 at 08:02

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if you are using apache and want to enforce downloading the txt files instead of opening them in browser. you can do using .htaccess

AddType application/octet-stream .txt

answered Aug 03 '11 at 08:02

Vamsi Krishna B

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score -1 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 03 '11 at 05:21

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I can tell you that you need to set header content-disposition as file attachment, but I do not know how to do it from JavaScript.

answered Aug 03 '11 at 05:21

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download the text file instead of opening in the browser

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