Comments on: Downloading Files with Flex 3

By: tahir

tahir — Thu, 14 May 2009 11:58:29 +0000

very nice work done, very good

By: Kasper

Kasper — Sun, 10 May 2009 20:37:27 +0000

Heya,

I’d just like to ask since I am pretty new to all this Flex stuff how and where and what do I name and place my Class file?

Regards

By: admin

admin — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:29:24 +0000

Thanks Daniel, I wonder how Safari v4 beta will treat the download. Anyways, looking forward to the demo.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:18:40 +0000

Nothing available right now, but I’ll put a demo up and include the source files….I’ll post the link on here.

Thanks for your help throughout this process….

ps – bad news: Safari actually opens the file rather than forcing a download….maybe its a header thing in the PHP file…but works fine in IE and FireFox.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:51:44 +0000

Sweet! Glad to hear that you got it working.. sounds like it is fast which is cool.

Is there a demo with write up somewhere?

Thanks, Morgan

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:52:13 +0000

UPDATE:

Well, I got it to work with no AMFPHP (I just haven’t had time to go that route)…I used a modified force download PHP script that I called with navigateToURL…the force download script loads, pushes the download dialog to the user and closes the newly opened window…all very quickly.

So now I can place files below the web accessible level without any problems.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:52:18 +0000

its the latter in this case where you simply click, get the download dialog and download.

amfphp would overcome this issue then?
ill try it and let you know…

By: admin

admin — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:36:15 +0000

is this something where you need to view the progress event within the flex app? or is it something where you simply click the button in the flex app and the file just downloads? if it is the latter then there is a good chance that amfphp is your solution.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:56:25 +0000

That’s definitely a possibility, but the problem is that I need to have it where the file can be downloaded directly from the application.

I guess a last (and my least favorite) alternative would be to open the PHP download script in a new window above the Flex app so that the download works and use javascript to close to browser upon completion?

By: admin

admin — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:41:15 +0000

I share your concerns, they are very valid. There certainly is a lot of communication between Flex and PHP, but I do assume that it is possible. Is it possible to create the same purchasing process as e-commerce for digital downloads? ie: provide the user via email with a link to download the file for a specified amount of time.