ok here's the problem:
I have a page that displays a form for user to select individual
fields and to specify their own criteria which is used to query a
database and then create an excel spreadsheet and download it to their
PC.
when the user clicks on the "create a custom query" link on the
reports page the file customss.php displays the form that list the
various fields and criteria to specify for the search. This part
works fine.
once the user clicks the button to submit the query the file
customssdisplay .php generates the Excel file and then sends it to the
client PC.
The problem is that once the user cliks the button to submit the
query, the form which displays the list of available criteria and
fields is still displayed EVEN AFTER the spreadsheet has been
downloaded to the PC.
Here's what I would like to happen is:
1)user clicks button to create the custom query
2)the form is displayed for the user to check fields for inclusion and
specify search criteria.
3)user chooses what they want and then clicks "submit query"
4)******* A page displays saying something like "Generating
report...."
5)Excel File is sent to user's PC.
OK now I've tried specifying a bit of html in the customssdisplay .php
file that generates the spreadsheet but this gives me error messages
saying that the header has already been sent. I suppose I could
create a passthrough file which creates a form with all the fields
hidden (taken from the search criteria page) but this seems cumbersome
and inefficient. I would appreciate any help that could be offered.
