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alejandro52

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Hello, i am trying to create a drop down list witch is inside a form and it is dynamicly created. When the user press the download button of the form to automaticly donwload a pdf.But i dont' kown how to do that. Here is the code

 

This is the form. there us a download button. when it's clicked it goes to pdf.php posting the teuxos id to the pdf.php

     <form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="pdf.php">
     <label for="teuxos_drop_down"></label>
     <select name="teuxos" id="teuxos_drop_down">
     	<?php
		while($teuxoi_row = mysql_fetch_array($teuxoi_res)){
			echo "<option value=".$teuxoi_row['teuxos_id'].">" .$teuxoi_row["teuxos"]. "</option>";
		}
	?>
     </select>
     <button> download</button>
   </form>

 

and here what i have on pdf.php. Insead of downloading the file i have it empbedded. But i want to download automaticly when the user clicks the download button

if (isset($_POST['teuxos'])){
	 $teuxos_id = $_POST['teuxos'];
 }else{
	 $teuxos_id= NULL;
 }
 $teuxos_res = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM teuxoi WHERE teuxos_id=".$teuxos_id, $connection); 
if(!$teuxos_res){
	die("Database Query Failed" . mysql_error());
}
$teuxos_row = mysql_fetch_array($teuxos_res);
 ?>
<?php echo "<embed src='".$teuxos_row['teuxos_link']."' width='1000' height='800'/>";
?>

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