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    <p>I am using php and an apache server. My application gathers data from the user, put's it in a database, then uses PDFLib to display the formatted data back to the user as a pdf. My problem is, I would like the pdf to display as a new page, this works. But, I also have a blank page left up with the URL containing the variables used to display the pdf. I would like this page to show a different summary page, in HTML, without the variables in the URL, but I don't know how to do that. In the code that follows, I am going to the summary page if the medical flag is false. What I would like is to go to BOTH pages if the medical flag is true. Is this possible?</p> <pre><code> if($medical_flag) { header("Location: {$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}/./index.php?step=wc_pdf&amp;id={$event_id}"); } else { header("Location: {$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}?step=success&amp;id={$event_id}"); } exit; </code></pre> <p>OK, I understand how this is impossible, but I still haven't figured out how to solve the problem. I thought I could toss the opening of the PDF back at jQuery with something like this:</p> <pre><code>jQuery(document).ready(function () { function display_pdf_page(data, textStatus) { var current_record = data || {}; //somehow display the pdf now } function show_pdf(eventid){ jQuery.getJSON( './inc/get_current_record_data_json.php', {'id': eventid}, display_pdf_page ); } ... }); </code></pre> <p>Then after I process the data in php "call" the above using:</p> <pre><code> echo '&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;' , 'show_pdf($event_id);' , '&lt;/script&gt;'; </code></pre> <p>But that doesn't work either, php doesn't know where to find show_pdf. My lack of understanding of client/server side events is killing me here. Call be obtuse... I don't get it.</p>
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    1. COThis is impossible. You cannot send the browser both to a file and a webpage at the same time. One HTTP request, one HTTP response. If for some reason you need to hide the URL of the PDF from the address bar, then redirect to a frameset page where one of the frames points to the URL of the PDF generator.
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    2. COI'd probably use javascript to open the PDF in a new window, a popup window as it were. Then I would redirect the main site to a new page as you described. Or what you could do is `php header(location:)` to a new page with a summary then javascript a new window for the pdf.
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    3. COWhat you're seeing with your PDF displaying in a new page is just a "feature" of your browser. It's not you making one request and receiving two responses.
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