Re-Direct problem...

[A JM]

I'm successfully able to export a file but am having a problem with a redirect after the files is downloaded, can this be done? am I just trying to implement it incorrectly?

 

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//Print the iif file
header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"invoice.txt");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: 0"); 

print $data;
exit;

//after exporting return to main page
$insertGoTo = "home.php?";
header(sprintf("Location: %s", $insertGoTo));

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

[premiso]

You do two things wrong. A: you are printing $data, so header will not work after that. B. you exit the script before you get to your redirect.

 

As well, you cannot do a redirect here as far as I know. Your best bet is when a download is called you open it in a new window, this way the user can just close the window and be back to where they were. As given the headers you sent to let the user download that file, you cannot do anytype of a redirect, as far as I know.

[A JM]

I appreciate the response premiso.

 

Sorry, I forgot to comment out the exit; which I have been doing when running in production.

 

A: you are printing $data, so header() will not work after that.

 

How else would I do this, echo?

 

Thanks,

[premiso]

No, after any output is sent to the browser you cannot run any headers, as headers must be before the body of the document.

 

As I suggested, you can have the link open a new window, or open a popup in javascript to dish the file. Other than that I do not know what other ways. But what you are trying to do is not possible, at least as far as I know.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Anything you output after the file data will be appended to the file.

[A JM]

Thanks for the info. I'll work on changing it.