Is there a way to make a link that actually creates a desktop shortcut? I have a page that gives links to files on our intranet but I know of people who try and make shortcuts for these files. It would be nice if I could put a link next to the link for the file that would make a shortcut.



This post has been edited by Johnny: Aug 1 2005, 08:18 AM

Explain more what you need, your not making much sense...

I don't think it would be possible. You'd have to figure out the path to the desktop. On Windows this is C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Desktop, I don't remember Linux's, and something else on Mac. You can get the OS with PHP's $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], but I don't think it's possible to write a file to the desktop.

You could always just tell people to drag their link to the desktop.



This post has been edited by KuBi: Aug 4 2005, 01:40 AM

Its also different on different windows versions different on ME, 200/NT, XP

I'm sure there's a php script out there which could get the operating system of a user and I'm sure you could use fopen(), fwrite(), and fclose() to create the shortcut. I'm not sure it that's actually works, but you put the following code into notepad:



and save it as an open.exe and run it and if memory serves this should act as a shortcut. I'm not promising that it will work, it's just something I remember reading Just read Command Prompt help guide and now I'm 90% sure it will.



It's easier than that to find out the path to a Windows user's desktop. It's %USERPROFILE%\Desktop. This takes out the trouble of finding out the user's username which would probably require ActiveX.

I Think Build key for acess to web on desktop is good Idea
I build one project with VB and i make it
Just build one (.url) file in vb and then put your link on this file :


And then Put this file on Your site for user downloads
But afther You must write one String to find Desktop address on user systems Its not hard ,