Re: Closing my Window after Download

Ave, Oh My Gosh! You did it!! Gosh! I can't believe you solved it. And well, I don't know when this was "explained" to everyone but if you actually search the internet and try and lookup what I was trying to do, you'll find, as I found, a lot, and I mean a "LOT" of people with the exact same problem... Because everybody tries to window.open() the page with the force-download script. Yes your logic made sense to me as soon as I read it, and I had no doubts it will work. I almost said to myself "how dumb could I be" because it was such a simple logical issue. But unfortunately, trust me, it has NOT been explained to "everyone". I even came across people who are using frames and some kind of JS to close to open window. I couldn't use that solution so I passed it. But anyhow, thanks a ton, I needed this real bad and now that I got it I feel stupid that I didn't make this sense myself. But then again, once in a while you need a hit on the head with a mallet just like this. Thank you so much. PHPJunkie. On 9/1/04 8:52 AM, "John Holmes" <holmes072000@charter.net> wrote: > From: "PHP Junkie" <phpjunkie@mjimm.com> > >> Which page do you give this code in? >> For example, I have a page admin.php .... Therein is the link on which, >> when >> a user clicks, a window "admin_dl.php" opens. The "admin_dl.php" >> contains >> my >> force-download code and it is that window that I'm trying to close. >> >> If I specify this following code in admin.php itself, would it work? >> Admin.php does contain a lot of other stuff too. > > Are we still on this topic? > > Say for example you request example.org/music.mp3. The file downloads to > your computer, right? How is a request for a download of an MP3 file going > to close your browser window? Your request for "admin_dl.php" is no > different than a direct request for an MP3 file. You can't send a file and > then expect to execute some HTML/JS or redirect to another page. > > Why are you opening another window, anyhow? Just link to admin_dl.php from > admin.php. When a user clicks on the link, it'll trigger a download and the > user will never leave admin.php. When you click on a link to an MP3, the web > page your on doesn't change, does it? > > I thought this was already explained to everyone? If anyone thinks I'm > wrong, I'm more than happy to admit it; just show me how. > > ---John Holmes... > > >