new window with php header via ajax, is it possible?

[Amzul]

hello all

i am trying to create an excel report file to download
i have saw few examples in this site and work with them,

this is whats going on:

main.php have a form that the user choose date to extract his report,
then with ajax i return the table affter being generated from mysql.

the code that i echo to the ajax request is a <table> tag.

the problem is that affter i echo the table i also want to echo the excel,

if($xls_file=="1"){//if the user want excel file aswell 
    $xlsxls = header("Content-type: application/msexcel");
    $xlsxls .= header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=xldoc.xls");
    $xlsxls .= $final;//thats the <table> that ajax echo
    echo $xlsxls;
}

this just produce the same table twice, is there a way to tell ajax to open it in a new window i belive that will solve it.

is there other solution?

[acoder]

Try using an iframe to force the download.