[PHP] Re: Die Page, Die! (Was: Preview button to show PDF without submittingpost data?)
Dave M G wrote: Ashley, Thank you for responding. I think you do, or where else would you show the PDF? Unless you force the PDF to download when the user clicks the preview button, you are left with the default option of the users browser, which will most usually be to display the PDF in the browser window. No, that's not what's happening. I'm not showing the PDF in a browser window. It's being given to the user with the option to download or view in a separate application. So I am fine with the download option. That's what I'm doing now, I suppose. So since the user is downloading the PDF, they don't need an in-browser window to view it. Once the PDF is downloaded/viewed, I want the new window to die by any means necessary. Surely there's a way. yup.. forget the new window all together, if you have it set to download as an attachment then the user won't be taken away from the page; so no need for a new window at all. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Die Page, Die! (Was: Preview button to show PDF without submittingpost data?)
Nathan, Thank you for responding. yup.. forget the new window all together, if you have it set to download as an attachment then the user won't be taken away from the page; so no need for a new window at all. Right... so, we're all on board with the goals. Now... how do I do that? The whole problem here is that I keep getting a new window even though I don't want it. I would have thought if I told PHP to die immediately after outputting the PDF, it would give up on making the new window. I've also tried JavaScript to kill the window after it's made. *How* do I get the page to die? -- Dave M G -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Die Page, Die! (Was: Preview button to show PDF without submittingpost data?)
On Nov 8, 2009, at 1:20 PM, Dave M G mar...@autotelic.com wrote: Nathan, Thank you for responding. yup.. forget the new window all together, if you have it set to download as an attachment then the user won't be taken away from the page; so no need for a new window at all. Right... so, we're all on board with the goals. Now... how do I do that? The whole problem here is that I keep getting a new window even though I don't want it. I would have thought if I told PHP to die immediately after outputting the PDF, it would give up on making the new window. I've also tried JavaScript to kill the window after it's made. *How* do I get the page to die? -- Dave M G -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php If you are popping up a new window just to handle the download, what about using a small iframe or hidden frame to handle that instead? Bastien -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
