You could create a hidden iframe and point it to the file, wouldn't that work?
On Jan 22, 5:28 am, Alexandre Plennevaux <aplennev...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, AFAIK It HAS to be triggered by a click event on a A anchor, so, > just make sure your onclick handler returns true. > > For the "force download" functionality, this writeup of mine might help you: > > http://www.pixeline.be/blog/2009/php-force-download-script-convert-ur... > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:30 AM, MorningZ <morni...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > You don't want AJAX in this situation.... have the page post like > > normal and do what you lay out above... AJAX is *not* the solution to > > every problem > > > On Jan 21, 6:46 pm, 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?
