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force download in jquery loaded div [ codeigniter ]

Hello all,

I have this codeigniter question.

I have created a force download link and this works perfectly. It is a controller with the method 'download' This gets some data and load the view that actually forces the download.

If I load this view (with jquery) into a div the raw data of the file is displayed, and there is no download.

Does anybody know why this is? I need to load it with jquery, do some other tasks and then force the download.

Hope someone can help me.


controller:
class Kleurplaten extends CI_Controller {

	public function __construct(){
            parent::__construct();
            $this->load->model('kleurplaten_model');
	}
        
        public function download_kleurplaat($id){
            
            // load data
            $content_data['kleurplaat'] = $this->kleurplaten_model->get_single_coloring_page($id);
            
            if (empty($content_data['kleurplaat'])){
                    show_404();
            }
            
            $this->load->view('pages/kleurplaten_download', $content_data);
        }

}

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view:

$this->load->helper('download');

// do some fancy stuff here...

$data = file_get_contents(base_url().'images_upload/'.$kleurplaat['colpic_asset_location']); // Read the file's contents
$name = 'myphoto.jpg';

force_download($name, $data);

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Hello,
what are you exactly (and how) loading into a div? Can you post a code related to this too?
Which file is displayed in the div? The view? Or the image?
Thanks,
Feri
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Hello feri,

I am using jquery to load the data into a div:

$(".kleurplaat_downloadlink").click(function(event){
        
        event.preventDefault();
        
        var content_id = $(this).attr('rel'); // id of content is a rel attribute
        var content_holder = $(this).parent().find(".kleurplaat_download");
        var content_to_load = siteroot+'/kleurplaten/download/'+content_id;
        
        // load and process

       content_holder.load(content_to_load, function(response, status, xhr) {
            if (status == "error") {
                //error, do stuff
            }else if(status == "success"){
                //succes, do stuff
            }
        });

        
        
    });

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It works, but de loaded view (where the download is initiated) shows only raw image data, no download.

But when I addres the url like www.site.nl/kleurplaten/download_kleurplaat/9 is works perfect

kleurplaten - controller
download_kleurplaat - method
9 - argument (id)

greetz,
walter
Hm, try to replace the call of content_holder.load(...) (the whole block) with this:
location.href = content_to_load;
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Hi Frisoft, Ahaa... this seemed to be the issue. Thanks for pointing this to me. I have found another solution to get this working.