[ILUG] Using PHP to output HTML and download a fie

[Conor Mac Aoidh]

Hi Niall,

You could try opening a new tab for the file download and then have the
confirmation HTML in the current tab?

Conor

http://conormacaoidh.com


On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Niall O Broin <niall at linux.ie> wrote:

> I'm trying to use the fpdf library with PHP to generate a PDF file and
> download that for the user which is fine as far as it goes, except that
> when the user clicks the submit button, having entered the necessary data,
> I want him to get a confirmation page AND have the PDF downloaded in one
> action. If I use fpdf's output method to download the file first, the
> confirmation HTML doesn't appear. If OTOH I first send the HTML, then fpdf
> complains that it can't send the file as the headers have already been sent.
>
> I know what's going on here - both fpdf and php's normal output are
> sending headers, and that's one lot of headers to many, so what I need to
> do is send a multipart result to the browser. However, I'm having a hard
> time finding an answer. Search terms including php, download, and pdf
> simply get way too may hits.
>
> This question is probably more proper to a PHP list, but I'm not on any of
> those, and the platform in use is Linux, so . . .
>
>
> Niall
>
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