I'm trying to use the fpdf library with PHP to generate a PDF file and download that for the user which is fine as far as it goes, except that when the user clicks the submit button, having entered the necessary data, I want him to get a confirmation page AND have the PDF downloaded in one action. If I use fpdf's output method to download the file first, the confirmation HTML doesn't appear. If OTOH I first send the HTML, then fpdf complains that it can't send the file as the headers have already been sent.
I know what's going on here - both fpdf and php's normal output are sending headers, and that's one lot of headers to many, so what I need to do is send a multipart result to the browser. However, I'm having a hard time finding an answer. Search terms including php, download, and pdf simply get way too may hits.
This question is probably more proper to a PHP list, but I'm not on any of those, and the platform in use is Linux, so . . .
Niall
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