closing newly open window

vivek151189

Hi ,All

As i have three file
payout.php
exceptionxlsx.php
waitscreen.php

In payout.php we use to upload the file and after submit buton one fancy box pop up with a button download discripant

it call the waitscree.php which open in a new tab by code

 window.open('waitscreen.php','calculation','')

which has waitscreen image i.e below

<html>
    <body onLoad="init()" style="position:absolute; width:100%; text-align:center; top:100px;">
    <h2>Your Reguest is Processing</h2>
    <div id="loading" style="position:absolute; width:100%; text-align:center;">
    <img src="loading.gif" border=0/></div>
    <meta HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" content="1;URL=exceptionxlsx.php"/>
</html>

as the code suggested it again call the exceptionxlsx.php which process and give the zip file for download the code of exceptionxlsx.php is given below

session_start();
 $exceptionxlsx_array = array();
 $exceptionxlsx_array = $_SESSION['exceptionxlsx_array'];

 include("impfun.php");
 require ('dbconfig.php');
 include("pdf.php");
 $objimp = new impfun;
 if(!empty($exceptionxlsx_array)){
    $exception_filename = 'admin/OccurException/existexception.xlsx';
    $objimp->makexlsxfile($exceptionxlsx_array,$exception_filename);




 $filename = $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]."/bi_tracker/admin/OccurException/"; 
				$objimp->Zip($filename, './OccurException.zip');
				$filename='OccurException.zip';
				$objimp->truncate();
				$objimp->delete_file();

			//ob_end_clean();
			//ob_end_flush();
			//ob_flush();
			//header_remove();
			header("Pragma: public");
			header("Expires: 0");
			header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
			header("Content-Type: application/force-download");
			header( "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".$filename);
			header( "Content-Description: File Transfer");
			readfile($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]."/bi_tracker/OccurException.zip");
			unlink($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]."/bi_tracker/OccurException.zip");
            echo "<script>window.close()</script>";

}

after the file download I want to close the new open tab But it didn't close what i am missing please let me know .....
although the file is available for download

Matt_Denton

Hi, I'm not the best source, but I'll give it a go...

Is it absolutely necessary to use a popup window? I've searched around on the Internet and it seems a lot of people have the exact same problem as you... They can't get the new popup window to close. The only thing I can think of is this:

var windowHandle = window.open('waitscreen.php','calculation','');
windowHandle.onload = function() {
    setTimeout(closeWindow, 1000);
}
function closeWindow() {
    windowHandle.close();
    if(!windowHandle.closed) {
        setTimeout(closeWindow, 1000);
    }
}

When your popup window loads it waits one second to attempt to close the window... and if the window close attempt fails, it tries again in another second. It works fine for me with a normal popup window but I've never tried it with a download window-I'm afraid it might close your popup window while the user is in the save dialogue.

On the other hand, it's best for you to just use a hidden iframe to open the download page: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3749231/download-file-using-javascript-jquery

Try:

<a href="waitscreen.php" target="ifr">Click here to download</a>
<iframe name="ifr" style="display:none;"></iframe>

Hope I could help. I'm sure others might have better answers.

Matt_Denton

Also possibly change the echo to:

echo "<script>opener.closeWindow();</script>";

And make sure you put your closeWindow function in the payout.php file, the opener:

function closeWindow() {
    windowHandle.close();
    if(!windowHandle.closed) {
        setTimeout(closeWindow, 1000);
    }
}

Weedpacket

The problem with the echo is that it will be output as part of the same response that is serving the zip file, so that's where the text being echoed will end up - at the end of the zip file.

The approach many sites use when providing file downloads (try looking around for sites that provide file downloading to see some examples) is to serve an HTML page that includes a request for the file, either through JavaScript or through a <meta http-equiv="refresh"> tag in the page's header, or both; such pages also usually provide a plain link to the file in case the other two methods don't work for some reason.

vivek151189

Thsnks
Matt.Denton for your help but both technique didn't worked

vivek151189

can anybody suggest any other idea I don't wanna code I jsut want the flow in which I can move further does anyone has experience similar problem

Matt_Denton

What do you mean they don't work? How do they fail? And did you try the iframe method?

Weedpacket

vivek151189 wrote:
can anybody suggest any other idea I don't wanna code I jsut want the flow in which I can move further does anyone has experience similar problem

Punctuation helps. When you use it your writing doesn't look like drooling.

Also, read this thread

Matt_Denton

Weedpacket;11007939 wrote:
Punctuation helps. When you use it your writing doesn't look like drooling.

Also, read this thread

Lol

Yes, please read Weedpacket's answer, he's a lot smarter than me and knows what he's talking about. If you didn't realize, the echo won't work.

vivek151189

the waitscreen look as it is it doesn't close at all

johanafm

In order to use window.close you must have first used window.open. Opening a new window in any other fashion doesn't give you the rights to close it. Moreover, if you use window.open to create a new tab rather than a popup window, you will not be able to close that either iirc. Thus, you will need to at least provide dimensions apart from url and name for the new window.

vivek151189

I have used
window.open('waitscreen.php','calculation','')
to open a window

johanafm

See my prevous post