Re: [PHP] target question

On 3/25/2013 1:12 PM, Samuel Lopes Grigolato wrote:
> With the header "Content-Disposition: attachment" the browser will
> offer the response as a regular file download (with save/open
> options). Your original page (menu) will remain intact.
>
> Please note that this solution will not present the PDF directly to
> the user (as it would with a popup window), instead he will need to
> open the downloaded file in his computer.
>
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Jim Giner
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 3/25/2013 10:13 AM, Samuel Lopes Grigolato wrote:
>>>
>>> Have you tried to set a Content-Disposition header in the PHP script that
>>> creates the PDF, asking the browser to "attach" the download? This way you
>>> don't even need a new window.
>>>
>>> Example from php.net/manual:
>>>
>>> // It will be called downloaded.pdf
>>> header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="downloaded.pdf"');
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Jim Giner
>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> target as in the form attribute
>>>>
>>>> In my appl devl I utilize an extra window when my current form is asked
>>>> to
>>>> generate a pdf report.  Works well since that way the user can generate
>>>> one
>>>> report into a new window, read it, close it, and still have the reports
>>>> menu in front of him/her and generate a 2nd report.
>>>>
>>>> I'm experiencing a problem tho and I'm guessing it's associated with ie9
>>>> or FPDF. In my reports menu form, when I click on a button that will
>>>> generate a pdf, I alter the form's target to create a new window.  This
>>>> used to work last fall, but since then I have a new laptop running ie9,
>>>> not
>>>> 8.  The target changing js logic is working as far as I can see (alerts
>>>> in
>>>> my js) but the effect is not there.  Instead of a new window, the pdf
>>>> opens
>>>> up in the same window where the menu was and so when the user does a back
>>>> he ends up going up one too many levels and has to re-request the reports
>>>> menu.
>>>>
>>>> Didn't have this much trouble originally setting this up as I'm having
>>>> now
>>>> trying to debug this.  I'm using the FPDF extension/class to generate my
>>>> pdfs - made no recent changes there.  Also my concept works very well
>>>> still
>>>> in a simple html document that has only two buttons on it which I created
>>>> today to test a theory.  That is - maybe it's not just IE9, but FPDF.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone have any experience in this area?
>>>>
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>>>
>> And what happens to my original menu window?
>>
>>
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Thanks for the pointer - but not what I'm looking to do.  Trying to make 
it effortless for the user so having to go and open a pdf would be 
another pia.