Yashesh Bhatia wrote:
Hello:
I'm trying to emulate a problem i'm trying to solve as follows.
1 - user enters information into a html form and submits
2 - a php script is invoked on the submit and a pdf file is stamped
and made available for download
3 - the script finally redirects the user to a thank you html page.
i'm having a problem in the redirect to the thank you page.
here's the 3 files
------------------------ 1.html ----------------------------
<html><body>
<form action="2.php" method="post">
First Name: <input type="text" name="firstname" />
Last Name: <input type="text" name="lastname" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
</body></html>
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------- 2.php ----------------------------
<?php
// some stamping code ...
// open the file in a binary mode
$name = "2.pdf";
fp = fopen($name, 'rb');
// send headers, dump the pdf file and finally redirect
header("Content-Type: application/pdf");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$name");
header("Content-Length: " . filesize($name));
fpassthru($fp);
echo '<script type="text/javascript">';
echo 'window.location.href="3.html";';
echo '</script>';
?>
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------- 3.html ----------------------------
<html><body>
Thank you for downloading 2.pdf
</body></html>
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The submit works fine and the pdf is availble for download however,
the redirect does not happen.
If i comment the lines
//header("Content-Type: application/pdf");
//header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$name");
//header("Content-Length: " . filesize($name));
//fpassthru($fp);
then the redirect happens after the submit.
i'm testing / running it on fedora core 6, Apache 2.2.5, php 5.2.5 and
firefox 1.5
Any help / pointers is appreciated.
Thanks.
Yashesh Bhatia.
Hi,
What you are doing is:
header("Content-Type: application/pdf");
And after that you try to echo some script. But the browser already
thinks that belongs to the PDF and not to a HTML page.
What I think should work instead of the script part is just:
header('Location: 3.html');
exit;
But I'm not sure it works.
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