php files?

[uk-alliance]

 

please please help me! everything I try and download from gtagarage.com comes in a php file format and I have no idea whatsoever what to do with them! I've searched the net with no luck and don't understand and its driving me mad. my email has been removed for your protection to prevent spam please email me with any help rather than just replying to this post directly. any help will be most appreciated, steve.

Edited September 22, 2007 by Fuzzy Juzzy

[Justin]

Try variations of download techniques: Right-click -> Save As or the typical left-click. Also experiment with another browser.

 

For the record, the download functions fine for me in Firefox via left-click, but not with saving the target via right-click.

 

By the way, I removed your email to prevent your account being bombarded with spam. If you'd like to receive email notification of any replies to any topic you participate in, enable email notification by default.

[Tryst]

Are you actually physically clicking the download button or are you trying to right click and save target as?

 

I know for most links you'll get a save as HTML, though I'm sure some things might want to save as php.

 

I noticed on the mod page the download button does save as an HTML, but if you click inside it will give you actuall download links which you can save target as or just plain click.

 

He beat me...

[fred]

Are you trying to download from the page with the all the mod information or the page with the list of available files (previous releases, etc.)? If you save the first Download link, then yes you'll just get a copy of the file listing page.

 

If that's not the problem, it could be that your browser is not reading (or the server is not sending) the header containing the real filename. If your downloaded .php file is the expected size, try renaming it to .rar or .zip and extracting it as normal.

[CCPD]

Try the following.

 

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If it'n not working for you, then the problem is at your end.

[SHXC]

I know what you're on about.. Really.. I used to have this problem, but it fixed itself for me.

 

Try re-installing Firefox, I'm sure that will fix it.

[Saggy]

Try using a browser or clearing your cache files. From time-to-time the server-side php scripts won't respond to the request, so your browser then attempts to download the physical php file instead. If you then try to download the file again, it reads from your cache and serves you the same php file as before.

 

I'm not sure if that's what's going on here, but it happens to me quite a bit on other sites, especially Invision Power Boards. I had an admin on another forum explain that this was the problem, but I'm not sure if it applies the same way to non-forum software. I've only had it happen a couple times to me outside of that one forum.