Force Download

[LordShryku]

Okay, I've seen a few posts for this, but nothing that really helps my situation. Here goes...

I have a two page problem here. The first page will contain a text box and I need to give two options here. The first option I have no problem with. That is to let them view the document through the browser. I've been able to do this many ways. The second option is my real problem. I want to be able to put a button or a link, something, that when pressed will force a download. But it needs to contain the variable from the text box. It needs to be as if the user right clicked, save as on the link of
<a href="something.php?a=$variable">

The second page takes the variable from the first page, performs a query, and generates a PDF document.

Thanks in advance for your help 🙂

[dawson1323]

how bout adding a part to the second page, that opens a second window and the source is the file, thus creating an auto dl.

some thing like this:

PG2:

window.open ( src="file to dl" );

then the rest of the code that generates the pdf.

If you need me to go more indepth, just yell at me🙂

-D

[Rohan_Hill]

That wouldn't necessarily download it would it? What you need is for the file to download to either be a .zip file, or for it to by some other format which your server doesn't associate with anything.

[LordShryku]

That actually does download it....