Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 08/24/07 00:18

sven.seuken@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I need the following functionality for my webpage and don't know how
> to realize it:
>
> When the user clicks the "download button" on my page, a new webpage
> shall load (saying something like "thank you for the download...") and
> at the same time, a file download dialogue shall open. It does not
> matter in which order this happens ,i.e. whether the new webpage loads
> after the user has saved the file somewhere or whether first the new
> webpage loads and then the file download dialogue opens, though the
> second option would be preferred.
>
> I have tried many different ways, but none worked for me.
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Sven.
>

I agree with Michael you shouldn't do it. But if you insist, you can't
do it from PHP. Try a javascript newsgroup.

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