On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:03 AM, spectrus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Laurent, > > Yes, it does indeed work with a flat submit, thank you very much for > the tip. The thing is, I was hoping that somehow I would be able to > get the PDF download starting, with optionally getting some data back > for a callback in case something fails and I do get JSON as a > response, which is impossible if I do a flat submit (am I wrong?). I > guess you can't have your cake and eat it too.
unless i am missing something you won't be able to feed to the same browser instance two different things - application/pdf and text/html without using a response handler to parse some kind of response from the server (prolly json would be easiest) with a textual response and then a hidden iframe that you can redirect to a link provided in the json. > > Brian, > > Thank you for the Apache directive! Nice tip, although unfortunately I > am in an environment where I can't rely on Apache directives, since I > don't control that. Yes, I don't need AJAX to feed a file to the user, > but as I mentioned above, I would love to have it in case something > fails - in that case I can let the user know that something went > wrong. Perhaps there's a way to do that which I can't see?.. see above > > We are using FPDF (http://www.fpdf.org/), which is free and suits our > needs pretty well (generating two types of rather simple reports, as > well as an invoice). Anything better out there? > > Best regards, > Max yes, something that is much more up to date (and actually still in development) which is based on FPDF and is free http://www.tecnick.com/public/code/cp_dpage.php?aiocp_dp=tcpdf > > > On Oct 9, 5:34 pm, "Brian Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have been working like mad with PDFs built dynamically with PHP the last >> week. >> >> One thing to be *absolutely* sure of is that you do not have ANY >> output before the PDF download starts. >> >> If you have Apache2 with mod_header loaded, there is a FilesMatch >> directive to always force a download for a PDF >> >> <FilesMatch "\.(?i:pdf)$"> >> ForceType application/octet-stream >> Header set Content-Disposition attachment >> </FilesMatch> >> >> On a side note, you do not need AJAX for this feature to feed the user >> a PDF file for download just set the form action to empty (same page) >> and it should leave the page/browser right where it is with the form >> still filled out, unless you are trying to feed a PDF to a div... you >> aren't are you? >> >> by the by which PDF library did you use to generate with? >> >> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 5:24 PM, lfortin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Hi Max, >> >> > Using Form#request with a form performs an Ajax.Request, using the >> > inputs of the form as serialized parameters. >> > This might not bring you the behavior you expect to have. >> >> > Maybe if you simply do a flat form submit, using $ >> > ('form_pdf').submit(); with all its inputs(hidden, text, ...) pre- >> > filled: >> >> > <form id="form_pdf" action="/any/url/"> >> > <input type="hidden" name="param1" value="anything"> >> > <input type="hidden" name="param2" value="anything"> >> > ... >> > </form> >> >> > hope it helps, >> >> > -Laurent >> >> > On Oct 9, 3:14 pm, spectrus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> >> I am trying to submit a form that calls PHP which generates a PDF file >> >> and shoots it back to the user. When I do it using GET directly in the >> >> browser address bar it works. However when I submit the form with >> >> Prototype (either POST or GET) it doesn't: >> >> >> $('form_pdf').request({ parameters: params }); >> >> >> I see the response headers in firebug set correctly as ' >> >> application/x- >> >> download' (which are set in the back-end). Furthermore, the response >> >> tab in the firebug console shows the actual contents of the PDF file >> >> (flat-text gibberish). >> >> >> It must be something trivial, perhaps setting some parameter for the >> >> request method. Does Prototype somehow override the headers when it >> >> receives responses to its AJAX requests? >> >> >> If anyone has ever dealt with a similar issue, any pointers are >> >> greatly appreciated. >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Max > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
