I have a button and onclick
it will call an ajax function.
Here is my ajax function
function csv(){
ajaxRequest = ajax();//ajax() is function that has all the XML HTTP Requests
postdata = "data=" + document.getElementById("id").value;
ajaxRequest.onreadystatechange = function(){
var ajaxDisplay = document.getElementById('ajaxDiv');
if(ajaxRequest.readyState == 4 && ajaxRequest.status==200){
ajaxDisplay.innerHTML = ajaxRequest.responseText;
}
}
ajaxRequest.open("POST","csv.php",false);
ajaxRequest.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
ajaxRequest.send(postdata);
}
I create the csv file based on the user input. After it's created I want it to prompt download or force download(preferably force). I am using the following script at the end of the php file to download the file. If I run this script in a separate file it works fine.
$fileName = 'file.csv';
$downloadFileName = 'newfile.csv';
if (file_exists($fileName)) {
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: text/csv');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.$downloadFileName);
ob_clean();
flush();
readfile($fileName);
exit;
}
echo "done";
But If I run it at the end of csv.php it outputs the contents of the file.csv into the page(into the ajaxDiv) instead of downloading.
Is there a way to force download the file at the end of csv.php?
AJAX isn't for downloading files. Pop up a new window with the download link as its address, or do document.location = ...
.