Re: header function query

On 26 February 2010 06:49, Nick allan <nallan@wdev.net> 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; > > > > > > 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. > > > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. > > > > Regards Nick > > > > Under normal conditions, you can't. A request is for a single thing. While it is potentially possible to embed graphics, css, js into a single html file request, downloading files is not. Instead, you issue the html first, but include in the <head> tag, a <meta> redirect tag to the URL just for the download file. -- ----- Richard Quadling "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" EE : http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_248814.html EE4Free : http://www.experts-exchange.com/becomeAnExpert.jsp Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 ZOPA : http://uk.zopa.com/member/RQuadling