Re: Preview button to show PDF without submitting post data?

On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 12:11 +0100, Sándor Tamás (HostWare Kft.) wrote: > My question is slightly the same: > how can I print a dynamically generated text file without opening a new > window, or navigating from the current one? > > Thanks, > SanTa > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Fernando Castillo Aparicio" <f_c_a_1980@yahoo.es> > To: "Dave M G" <martin@autotelic.com>; "PHP-General List" > <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 8:37 AM > Subject: Re: [PHP] Preview button to show PDF without submitting post data? > > > You could just open in a new window a php script that generates the > "preview" pdf with a content-type header for pdf. > > header("Content-type: application/pdf"); > > Or if the "preview" pdf is not dinamic, just point the url to the pdf. > > No javascript needed, just a link, o a submit button on a form with the > url as the "action" attribute. If you need it to open on a new window, > use target="_blank", or better target="pdf" if you want consecutive > requests to open in the same window instead of a new one everytime. > > Note: if you are not using transitional html and care about validation, the > target attribute is not allowed. In that case you would need javascript to > open a new window. > > > > > ________________________________ > De: Dave M G <martin@autotelic.com> > Para: PHP-General List <php-general@lists.php.net> > Enviado: vie,6 noviembre, 2009 04:58 > Asunto: [PHP] Preview button to show PDF without submitting post data? > > PHP Users, > > I have a page that generates a PDF document using PHP. It takes form > data filled in by the user to fill out the PDF > > When the user clicks "submit", it emails that PDF document to the > intended recipient. > > However, I would like to add a "preview" function as well. But for a > variety of reasons, instead of submitting the form data through post and > re-filling all the fields with the selected data, I'd like to be able to > open a new window with an example PDF without actually submitting the form. > > I think this might need JavaScript, but I'm not sure. > > Is this possible? > > Thank you for any advice. > > -- > Dave M G > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > Print it where? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk