Re: [PHP] header function query

output the html you want to send afterwards first,

then either put a link to another script that outputs the word file,
or have an auto-launch ajax routine (i recommend jquery.com for ajax)
do it automatically.

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Nick allan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> The situation is as follows
>
> I've read some data in from a couple of files into a string variable, made
> some changes to it and want to send the contents of the string out to the
> browser as a word document.
>
> My code currently looks like the following
>
> header('Content-Type: application/msword');
>
>                header('Content-Disposition: attachment;
> filename="preq.doc"');
>
> ob_clean();
>
> echo $allText;
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> The above code works fine, the client gets a file download dialogue and can
> save or open the file.
>
> How can I indicate end of file, then continue writing html to display a new
> page. I want to be able to ask the user some additional questions after they
> have downloaded the file.  My problem is that if I add any html code after
> the above echo statement, it is included in the downloaded file.
>
> There's probably a simple answer to this, but I haven't been able to find
> anything using google.
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> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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>
> Regards Nick
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