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| From | Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.php |
| Subject | Re: Generating "download" pages |
| Date | 2014-07-19 16:55 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <lqem07$8m0$2@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <6H9yv.30802$el1.16727@fx26.iad> <53CA9A30.4090603@arnowelzel.de> |
On 7/19/2014 12:17 PM, Arno Welzel wrote:
> Lew Pitcher, 2014-07-18 15:55:
>
>> I'm not certain that what I want can be done, let alone done with PHP, but
>> please let me describe the function I'm looking for:
>>
>>
>> On response to a trigger on one web page, I want to be able to generate and
>> display a new web page, /and/ at the same time, send an associated file as
>> a download.
>>
>> The user selects (in this case) "Export recipes" (I'm developing a PHP/MySQL
>> recipe management application), which causes
>> 1) the page to change to a "Download in progress" page, and
>> 2) a file (in this case, an XML file containing the recipes) to be sent to
>> the client.
>>
>> Is this doable? How do I do this with PHP?
>
> I would solve it this way:
>
> A PHP script displays the page *and* also generates a
> META-Refresh-Header to redirect the browser to another script (or the
> same whith an additional parameter) which will then generate the content
> to be downloaded.
>
> As a rough example (untested and not complete - just to get the idea):
>
> <?php
> //
> // getfile.php
> //
>
> if(!isset($_GET['download'))
> {
> ?>
> <!DOCTYPE html>
> <html>
> <head>
> <meta
> http-equiv="refresh"
> content="5; url=http://example.com/getfile.php?download=1" />
> <title>Download</title>
> </head>
> <body>
> <p>If your download does not start automatically,
> <a href="http://example.com/getfile.php?download=1">click here</a>.</p>
> </body>
> </html>
> <?
> }
> else
> {
> header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=download.xml");
>
> // Add XML output to be downloaded here...
> }
> ?>
>
>
Arno,
An interesting idea. I admit I hadn't thought of using a meta refresh
that way; it's worth a look. The couple of times I've needed to do
something like this I've used javascript.
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Generating "download" pages Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2014-07-18 09:55 -0400
Re: Generating "download" pages Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-07-18 17:39 +0200
Re: Generating "download" pages Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2014-07-19 11:38 -0400
Re: Generating "download" pages Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-07-19 16:57 -0400
Re: Generating "download" pages Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2014-07-19 17:06 -0400
Re: Generating "download" pages Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2014-07-19 11:58 -0400
Re: Generating "download" pages Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-07-19 19:06 +0200
Re: Generating "download" pages "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-07-19 19:43 +0200
Re: Generating "download" pages Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2014-07-19 14:23 -0400
Re: Generating "download" pages "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-07-19 22:18 +0200
Re: Generating "download" pages "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-07-19 22:38 +0200
Re: Generating "download" pages Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2014-07-19 16:54 -0400
Re: Generating "download" pages Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2014-07-19 17:00 -0400
Resolved: Generating "download" pages Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2014-07-20 14:34 -0400
Re: Generating "download" pages Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-07-19 20:50 +0200
Re: Generating "download" pages "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-07-19 22:06 +0200
Re: Generating "download" pages Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-07-19 16:54 -0400
Re: Generating "download" pages Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-07-20 00:48 +0200
Re: Generating "download" pages Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2014-07-20 01:04 +0200
Re: Generating "download" pages Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2014-07-19 18:17 +0200
Re: Generating "download" pages Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-07-19 16:55 -0400
Re: Generating "download" pages Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2014-07-19 12:25 -0400
Re: Generating "download" pages Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-07-19 17:36 +0100
Re: Generating "download" pages Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2014-07-19 13:53 -0400
Re: Generating "download" pages Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2014-07-19 14:14 -0400
Re: Generating "download" pages Curtis Dyer <dyer85@gmail.com> - 2014-07-23 00:38 +0000
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