Multiple download files

[aharrisreid]

I want a facility within my website whereby the user presses a button on a page to launch a program which extracts data from tables and creates a number of .xls spreadsheet files in a temporary folder. These files are then to be automatically downloaded into a user-defined folder on the user's pc.

a) Is this 'multiple-file' download possible, or do I have to zip all the individual files into a single zip file first?
b) Can the download be performed without the 'File download' save/open dialog appearing for each file? (I would like the download to be as automatic as possible without any user-interaction).
c) Is there any way of checking that the download folder exists first before downloading?

Any help would be appreciated.
Alan Harris-Reid

 

[NEVERSLEEP]

a) is the content of this "multiple" download always the same ?

if so : why not zip yeah ?????????
if not : use server side language (like Perl) to retrieve
 selection then make it zip then send the url to the browser

b) no
c) no

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