Pulling out my hair!!!!

tdabel

Good day all.

I am new to PHP, and so far have not really had any problem that I could not figure out until now.

I would like to use something similar to the Header() function to first retrieve a file (for open or save) and second redirecting to my home page:

I have a form that feeds MySQL db just fine. I send an email alert and it works fine. Then I have tried to do several things around the following;

header ( Location: Http://www.domain.com/getfile.doc);
header (Location: Http://www.domain.com/redirectpage.htlm, false);

It works fine only using one or the another.

I've read the documentation and read that you can only use the header function once.

I thought this would be simple coding but I have spent seven hours on this and have not gotten anywhere.

If this helps the, my provider (Yahoo) has PHP 4.1 installed.

Thanks for any help in advance.

-Tony

NogDog

Not sure I understand what you want to do. The header() function with a "Location: ..." parameter will tell the browser to redirect itself to that link. Thus it only makes sense to have just one such header() take effect, since a browser can only connect to one URL at a time. Perhaps you want something like [man]file_get_contents/man or [man]readfile/man? Or perhaps we need a more detailed explanation of what you want to accomplish and what your problem is?

tdabel

Thanks for the reply NogDog.

I'll try to make this a little clearer in what it is I wish to accomplish.

I have a page with a link that allows the user to retrieve a Word Doc from the domain. Once the user selects this link to the Word Doc, I display a "form page" to collect the user information - Name, email etc. Once the user clicks the submit button, I call my .php file to store the form data and then I desire to:

1- get the Word document to "open" or "save" for the user
2- redirect away from the "form page" (it is still present as the php code runs) back to the originating page.

As in my initial post, it works fine if I use one or the other in the header function. I desire some functionality that will give me both.

-Tony