You are totally in the wrong way.
I would use an <a> tag and onclick property for opening the PDF in popup &
relocating the current page
HTH
Nitsan
On 12/06/2008, Yashesh Bhatia <yasheshb@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
>
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