How to refresh page

once the headers have been sent

[Wayder]

I have created my csv file and downloaded it.

$strtoexport = ‘lots,of,lovely,comma,delimited,stuff’;
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post=check=0, pre-check=0");
header("Content-Length: " . strlen($strtoexport));
header("Content-type: textx-csv");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=myfile.csv");
echo $strtoexport;

Now I need to continue the script but it has stopped because the file has been sent. How can I get it to continue?

I was thinking of placing the download in an external file to work separately but I'm a bit stuck on how I an do that as pcntl_fork() is not available to me.

What I need is for the file to download and the page to continue. It needs to do that as the content is based on the information that has been altered by the download. eg 100 widgets have been downloaded (now 101).

Any ideas please.

Thanks

[Wayder]

Done. I saved the file, reloaded the page with a 0 delay meta refresh to call /download.php that reads the file and outputs the header to download the file.

[incrediBILL]

Clever.

Another method would be to use a little simple javascript and create the file and download it via AJAX and bypass messy reloads and other such things.

[Wayder]

Sorry I'm a bit late in replying.

I can't take credit for this, it was about the 100th search variation that gave me the solution, I just wrote the code.

I added a link that says your download will start shortly, but you can click here if you dont want to wait. for when the refresh doesnt happen.

I agree with the AJAX solution, but personal preference made me discard this at the beginning.

Thanks for the suggestion though.