I have a pdf generated (fpdf) from a post form. I would like the pdf to open in a new tab and/or window prompting the user to save the pdf. I'm guessing I need to save the output to a string
$data=$pdf->Output("OfficeForm.pdf", "S");
but what exactly can I do with this string to get it to open in a new window. I've attempted something like this but it's not working. Am I on the right track or is window.open not what I need?
echo "<script type=\"text/javascript\">
window.open('$data', '_blank')
</script>";
If you use a form you can do it by specifying target='_blank' in the -tag (next to where you should have submit='something')
Example:
This will open a new Tab (showing whatever "makepdf.php" produces) on submit.
Hope it answers the question correctly
I simply added target="_blank" to my form opening tag and used $_SESSION[]; to pass my form to the FPDF code:
<?php session_start(); ?>
<form id ="buildPDFform" name="buildPDFform" target="_blank" method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
...some code for my form
<input type="submit" name="buildPDf" id="buildPDf" class="buildPDFbutton" value="Build the PDF">
</form>
Then when the form is submitted I gather my form items, put them in an array, create a session the array goes into and use a header("Location: testcode.php") to redirect to where my FPDF code is.
if (isset($_POST['buildPDf'])) {
$pdfArray = array();
foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) {
...gather your form items into your array
}
$_SESSION['pdfArray'] = $pdfArray;
header("Location: testcode.php");
}
And don't forget in your FPDF code file (testcode.php in my case) to grab your session that has the array.
<?php
session_start();
$pdfArray = $_SESSION['pdfArray'];
... your FPDF code
$pdf->Output('I');
?>
source: https://www.thesitewizard.com/html-tutorial/open-links-in-new-window-or-tab.shtml
use target="_blank" in your a tag to open it to new tab
Try $pdf->Output("OfficeForm.pdf", "I");
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I'm just a beginner in laravel framework. i created a simple form and controller methods . i think by default the form method is post. but now i need to make it as get method and also wants to pass the selected inputs to controller and shows that parameters in the url also. currently i did like below but failed.
index.blade.php
<?php echo Form::open(array('url' => 'home/find','method' => 'get')); ?>
<select class="location" id="location" name='location'>
<?php
$id1 = /* get user db details based on locations*/
$location_id_drop_down='';
foreach($idl as $lrow)
{
$city_name=Location::where('location_id','=',$lrow['loc_id'])->first();
if($city_name==array()) continue;
if(Input::old('location')==$lrow['loc_id'])
{
$location_id_drop_down.="<option value='" . $city_name['location_name'] . "' selected='selected'>" .$city_name['location_name'] . "</option>";
}
else
{
$location_id_drop_down.="<option value='" . $city_name['location_name'] . "'>" . $city_name['location_name']. "</option>";
}
}
echo $location_id_drop_down;
?>
</select>
<input type="submit" name="search" id="search_submit" class="search_submit" value="Search" />
{{ Form::close() }}
HomeController.php
public function anyFind($s='',$d='',$l='') {
if(Input::get('search'))
{
$location=Input::get('location');
}
else
{
if($l!='~')
$location=$l;
}
/* queries to get the user details and images based on selected location and list them*/
}
Routes.php
Route::get('/find/{location}','HomeController#anySearch');
But this shows the url as mysite.com/home/find?location=Test&search=Search
I need mysite.com/home/find/location
is there any mistake in my code?
Edit
As a part of experiment i tried this method. i gave a redirect like below at the end of my controller function anyfind()
return Redirect::to('/home/find/'.$location);
But this redirects me but did anyone knows how to load the search.search_new.blade.php with this custom url??
Having a field from the form in your url (not query string) is simply not possible with Laravel. What you can do though, is just use javascript for that.
First lets put a placeholder in the action url
<?php echo Form::open(array('url' => 'home/find/%location%','method' => 'get')); ?>
jQuery
$('form').on('submit', function(){ // you maybe need to be a bit more precise with the selector here
var location = $('#location').val();
$(this).prop('action', $(this).prop('action').replace('%location%', location));
});
Vanilla Javascript (if you can't / don't want to use jQuery)
document.getElementsByTagName('form')[0].onsubmit = function(e){
var location = document.getElementById('location').value;
e.target.setAttribute('action', e.target.getAttribute('action').replace('%location%', location));
};
By the way: the code in your question has still some weird stuff in there. I'm just assuming this has happened because of copy paste etc. So if it still doesn't work, make sure you post the correct code
Insert at the end of your method anyFind() inside the HomeController.php where you set the view for the page:
if (Input::get('location') != '') {
return Redirect::route('home.findByLocation',Input::get('location'));
}
return View::make('home', compact('location));
Also in your routes.php add the following code:
Route::get('home/find/{location?}', array('as'=>'home.findByLocation', 'uses'=>'HomeController#anyFind'));
I'm using cakephp 2.3.0. I searched in the manual for quite awhile, but I haven't found the answer. Also, I've searched the Internet, but still haven't found what I'm looking for. SO, I'm posting my question here. Note, I'm fairly new to cakephp.
Scenario:
I have a simple form with two fields: activity and zip code.
I'm using POST on the form.
When I type in some value in those fields and submit, I echo those 'post' values/parameters and display in the browser screen. What I typed in, I can see on the screen, but the number '1' is added to the end of what I typed in the form.
Here is an example. I type in these values in the form, 'walk' and '44555'. Then I click 'Submit'. The post goes to my controller's action, which then calls my view. My view is displayed on the browser screen and I echo out those 'post' values. The results on screen are 'walk1' and '445551'.
Example #2: If I follow the steps above and don't enter any values in my form (I'll add error checking later), what I see on the browser screen is '1' and '1'.
I am unable to figure out why I am getting the value of '1' added to my form's POST values?
I'll be glad to include any other additional php code to this posting, if requested by someone trying to help.
Here is my FORM code (from my view)...I know there are DIV helpers, but I'll get to that later:
echo $this->Form->create(null, array('url' => array('controller'=>'activities', 'action'=>'results'))); ?>
<div class="box1" style="position:relative; top:10px; left:10px; float: left;">
Search here.... <br>
<hr>
<?php echo $this->Form->input('activityName', array('size'=>'30',
'label'=>'Activity Name:', 'value'=>'i.e. walking, etc.'));?>
<br>
<?php echo $this->Form->input('zip', array('size'=>'7', 'label'=>'Postal Code:')); ?>
<br>
</div>
<div class="box1" align="right">
<?php echo $this->Form->end('Go Search');?>
</div>
Here is my controller code:
<?php
class ActivitiesController extends AppController {
public $helpers = array('Html', 'Form');
public function index() {
//other code....
}
public function results() {
$this->layout = 'second';
$name = $this->request->data['Activity']['activityName'];
$pCode = $this->request->data['Activity']['zip'];
$this->set('theName', $name);
$this->set('theZip', $pCode);
$this->set('results', $this->Activity->
find('all', array('conditions' => array('name' => $name, 'postal_code' => $pCode))));
$this->set('title_for_layout', 'Results');
$this->render();
}
}
?>
My final view code. I left off some of the code...just showing the part that matters:
<div style="position:relative; top:10px; left:5px; ">
<?php echo print_r($theName); ?>
<br>
<?php echo print_r($theZip); ?>
Thanks
The 1 comes from printing the return value of print_r() which is true (i.e. 1).
In other words: you shouldn't do echo print_r(), just do print_r(). The function handles the printing by itself, you don't have to print the results manually.
(Also, print_r() is almost never the best choice to print out values except when debugging and even then CakePHP's debug() is much more suitable.)
I am trying to add some form to my component, but I am not shure what naming conventions must be applied to work it correctly.
Currently I have a working form - it displays fields stored in XML file and loads data from database to it. However, when i try to submit this form (edit or add new records), it doesn't work. After pressing submit (save() method) it just redirects me and displays that record was edited successfuly but it wasn't. When I try to edit existing record, after pressing submit nothing happens and when I try to add new record, it just adds empty/blank record.
So I was doing a little debug and discovered, that problem is in the JController::checkEditId() method. It always returns false which means that JControllerForm::save() returns false as well and that's why it doesn't save it correctly. HTML code of form is correct and I can access the data by using global array $_POST.
I suspect that this problem is because of naming conventions in methods loadFormData, getForm of JModelAdmin class. I am not sure how to name that form.
So here is my code related to this problem:
Subcontroller for displaying the form - controllers/slideshowform.php
class SlideshowModelSlideshowForm extends JModelAdmin{
public function getForm($data = array(), $loadData = true){
return $this->loadForm('com_slideshow.slideshowform', 'editform', array('load_data' => $loadData, 'control' => 'jform'));
}
protected function loadFormData(){
$data = JFactory::getApplication()->getUserState('com_slideshow.edit.slideshowform.data', array());
if (empty($data))
{
$data = $this->getItem();
}
return $data;
}
public function getTable($table = "biometricslideshow"){
return parent::getTable($table);
}
}
views/slideshowform/view.html.php
class SlideshowViewSlideshowForm extends JView{
public function display($tmpl = null){
if (count($errors = $this->get('Errors')))
{
JError::raiseError(500, implode('<br />', $errors));
return false;
}
$this->form = $this->get('form');
$this->item = $this->get('item');
JToolBarHelper::save('slideshowform.save');
parent::display();
}
}
views/slideshowform/tmpl/default.php
<?php
defined('_JEXEC') or die('Restricted access');
JHtml::_('behavior.tooltip');
?>
<form method="post" action="<?php echo JRoute::_("index.php?option=com_slideshow&id=".(int) $this->item->id)?>" name="adminForm" id="slideshow-form">
<fieldset class="adminform">
<legend>Edit slide</legend>
<table>
<input type="hidden" name="task" value="">
<?php echo JHtml::_('form.token'); ?>
<?php
foreach($this->form->getFieldset() as $field){
?>
<tr><td><?php echo $field->label ?></td><td><?php echo $field->input ?></td></tr>
<?php
}
?>
</table>
</fieldset>
</form>
Can someone take o look, please?
you have to add controller SlideshowControllerSlideshowForm and code save method. In there you have to validate the form data and call SlideshowModelSlideshowForm->save event, then redirect with success/failure message.
In a symfony 1.4 view I'm attempting to pass some html/javascript in the "attributes" parameter of the sfFormField::renderRow function:
<?php echo $form['ownership_status_id']->renderRow(array('onFocus' => 'displayHelp("<p>help text</p>");'), 'Own/Rent')?>
Unfortuantely the when the page gets rendered, all of the javascript/html output is escaped:
<select name="address[ownership_status_id]" onFocus="displayHelp("("<p>help text</p>");" id="address_ownership_status_id">
I'm not clear on how to prevent this content from being escaped, can someone help?
Try to unescape the $form variable as so:
sfOutputEscaperGetterDecorator::unescape($form);
Then call renderRow():
<?php echo $form['ownership_status_id']->renderRow(array('onFocus' => 'displayHelp("<p>help text</p>");'), 'Own/Rent'); ?>
I had to use this:
<?php echo sfOutputEscaperGetterDecorator::unescape($form['ownership_status_id']->renderRow(array('onFocus' => 'displayHelp("<p>help text</p>");'), 'Own/Rent')); ?>
I'm trying to call a Feed Form in my Facebook application and I'm not sure how to do so. I'm not familiar with the FBJS and its API. Specifically I need the following dialogue to show up: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Feed_Forms
Here's what I got for now:
<script type="text/javascript">
var attachment = <?php echo json_encode($attachment); ?>;
return attachment;
Facebook.streamPublish(<?php echo $message; ?>, attachment, null, <?php echo $user; ?>);
</script>
Is there anything else I need to do in order to properly call a Feed form? A code example would help me a lot if anyone is willing to write one up.
Here's an example I use from a Facebook Connect site that I operate:
var message = 'This is my message!';
var attachment = {
'name':'Page name',
'href':'http://mysite.com',
'caption':'Some kind of caption';
};
attachment.media = [{'type':'image','src':'http://mysite.com/images/lolcat.jpg','href':'http://mysite.com'}];
var action_links = [{'text':'Action Link!','href':'http://mysite.com'}];
FB.Connect.streamPublish(message, attachment, action_links);
The FB.Connect methods are almost identical to the normal JS methods, so something similar should be working for you.
I would point out that you have <?php echo $message; ?> as the first parameter to your Facebook.streamPublish() call. Assuming $message is a text string, then you need to wrap that output in quotes in order for it to be valid Javascript. As well, the return attachment; line doesn't make much sense to me. Why is there a return statement there? I would change your code to this:
<script type="text/javascript">
var attachment = <?php echo json_encode($attachment); ?>;
Facebook.streamPublish('<?php echo addslashes($message); ?>', attachment, null, <?php echo $user; ?>);
</script>
For FBML canvas pages, all you need to do is execute the command as follows:
<script type="text/javascript">
var attachment = <?php echo json_encode($attachment); ?>;
Facebook.streamPublish('', attachment, null);
</script>
That should easily bring up the Feed Form.