In the post above by Alexandre Plennevaux, the link says how to. :)
On Jan 22, 9:38 am, Mario Soto <canc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It must be using http headers:
>
> header('Content-Disposition: inline; filename='.
> $filename.'.pdf');
> header('Content-type: application/x-pdf');
> echo $pdfData;
> die();
>
> By example. -
>
> On Jan 22, 3:05 am, Genus Project <genusproj...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > or you can do this.
> > 1. your php create the file from your post.
> > 2. return something to the script ($.post) that says you have
> > successfully created the file
> > or maybe with the filepath in it in json or whichever format it
> > is.
> > 3. redirect your current window to the path of this file.
>
> > But it may show the file as is because browser can usually display a
> > txt file.
>
> > I am not sure how to open up the browser dialog save us box :)
>
> > On Jan 22, 3:46 am, AlexDeLarge <perkeleenperkelesaat...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
>
> > > Hi,
>
> > > I have situation like this: I post certain data with $.post to PHP-
> > > script which is supposed to handle the data, create a file from it and
> > > then trigger browser to open a Save As-dialog. Everything works just
> > > fine except the Save As-dialog, I just can't make it pop-up.
>
> > > For the Save As dialog the PHP-script ha s following statements:
>
> > > header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename=stats.txt');
> > > header('Content-type: text/plain');
> > > readfile('stats.txt');
>
> > > And this just doesn't work through $.post, or at least I can't make it
> > > happen.
>
> > > Is there any way to make this work?
