instead of right click as save on each file i want to have a select button to choose from and then a

[Jasonc]

we hold many meetings and members only want certain files, i want to save
them time in allowing them to save just the files they want, i want to make
it easy for them. and i do not want to have them right click and save as,
cos sometimes they want all of the files and they would have to do this to
each one,

sometime they might be up to 100 files to get and they might only want 20 of
them, and not everyone will have the same ones. so NO i can not put them
all in a zip file, as they can NOT use these files. and they will never be
able to.

i think this is a better discription of what i am after.......

i have many files on the website and want to set up a page for them to
select the files they want by checked boxes and then for them to click the
last button which would be a DOWNLOAD button that would open a SAVE AS box
asking for a location on the pc where they are to be save to, and these
file would then be copiewd from the website to the location they have
selected.

batch saving, the files they have selected.

how can this be done???

what ever way it can be done let me know.

thanks

J

 

[Jim Buyens]

This would be very difficult to do via the Web, because
when the visitor clicks a hyperlink, the browser can only
receive one file. If it were otherwise, sites all over
the Internet would be sending you extra files
(advertising, viruses, worms, ...) whenever you requested
a legitimate download.

If you're good at JavaScript, you might be able to issue
a series of window.open commands such as:
window.open("/downloads/whattodo.ppt","_blank")
I guess you'd have to program a pushbutton to call a
function that inspects a series of check boxes and runs
one of these commands for each one that's selected. But
if the visitor selects 20 check boxes, they'll get 20
windows and 20 Save As dialog boxes.

There might also be some sort of download manager you
could acquire as a third-party add-in. This would
probably require the visitor to install an ActiveX
control.

The simplest and easiest solution is probably to set up a
read-only FTP site. The visitors would enter (or link to)
a URL like ftp://ftp.myserver.com/downloads and get a
Windows Explorer listing of available files. Then, they
could select and drag the files they want.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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[YBOTI]

Jasonc,

What you are asking for is doable, but would require several parts. You
would first need to present the files for the users to select. A
multi-choice <select> would accomplish this. Then, when the user clicks the
download or submit button your script would initiate the download sequence
with an "open" statement. This would, however, force the user to "save as"
for each file. The only way I know of to get around accepting the suggested
file name and location multiple times would be more like a file management
system. There are many available, but they all cost money, and you could not
implement them on such a "free" service.

 

[Jasonc]

ok where do i get them from?

Jasonc,

What you are asking for is doable, but would require several parts. You
would first need to present the files for the users to select. A
multi-choice <select> would accomplish this. Then, when the user clicks the
download or submit button your script would initiate the download sequence
with an "open" statement. This would, however, force the user to "save as"
for each file. The only way I know of to get around accepting the suggested
file name and location multiple times would be more like a file management
system. There are many available, but they all cost money, and you could not
implement them on such a "free" service.

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