Creating files on the Users Local Hard Drive

[davejoyce]

Is there a way through CFFILE or some other way to create a file on the users local hard drive? For instance to save the results of a query into an excel file?<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Thanks,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Dave Joyce

 

[SnakeHollywood]

If you could save files to users local hard drives, then there there would be a lot of pissed off people being infected with viruses, having their private data copied, and general mayhem. Not to mention the fact it would be illegal.<br><br>All you can do is create the file on your server and provide the user with a link to download it.<br><br><br> <p>Russ Michaels<br><a href=mailto:russ@satachi.com>russ@satachi.com</a><br><a href=

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[davejoyce]

The intent was for the user to request the file to be generated. This is a regular practice in the case of the user having an option to save a file to their hard disk. Any attachments to e-mail allow the user to save the attached file to their hard disk, so I don't think that this is cutting edge or invasive.<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp; <p>Dave Joyce<br><a href=mailtoaveJoyce@hotmail.com>DaveJoyce@hotmail.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>

 

[iza]

&quot;For instance to save the results of a query into an excel file?&quot; --&gt; yes you can, you have to use the cfcontent tag <br><br>this works fine :<br>&lt;CFCONTENT TYPE=&quot;text/csv&quot;&gt;the name of the fields separated with ;<br>&lt;CFOUTPUT QUERY=&quot;...&quot;&gt;#...#;#...#&lt;/CFOUTPUT&gt;<br><br>i'm not sure this one is fine for excel but the idea is here