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Freiermuth
Freiermuth

Reputation: 121

How to submit a form and download the formatted information

Okay, so I have a form. I want to be able to enter information and when I hit the submit button, download the information in a formatted matter.

For example, here is a basic form

<html>
<body>
        <form action="submit.php" method="post">
                    <table>
                        <tr>
                <td>Week of:</td>
                <td><input type="text" name="week"></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                            <td>Monday:</td>
                <td><input type="text" name="mon"></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Tuesday:</td>
                <td><input type="text" name="tue"></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Wednesday:</td>
                <td><input type="text" name="wed"></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Thursday:</td>
                <td><input type="text" name="thur"></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Friday:</td>
                <td><input type="text" name="fri"></td>
            </tr>

            <input type="submit">
        </form>
    </table>

</body>
</html>

Here is the submission page. 

<html>
<body>
Your schedule for the week of <?php echo $_POST["week"]; ?> !<br>
Monday <?php echo $_POST["mon"]; ?> <br>
Tuesday <?php echo $_POST["tue"]; ?> <br>
Wednesday <?php echo $_POST["wed"]; ?> <br>
Thursday <?php echo $_POST["thur"]; ?> <br>
Friday <?php echo $_POST["fri"]; ?> <br>
</body>
</html>

The submission page displays the information into a different format. How can I get the information downloaded into a text document looking like this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 169

Answers (1)

adamj
adamj

Reputation: 4792

Check out: http://php.net/manual/en/function.header.php

You need to format your data in your preferred format after which you are able to do something similar to this:

<?php
// We'll be outputting a PDF
header('Content-type: application/pdf');

// It will be called downloaded.pdf
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="downloaded.pdf"');

// The PDF source is in original.pdf
readfile('original.pdf');
?>

Upvotes: 1

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