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What I want to do is select a month from a dropdown and then have a
PDF file named SL_mmm.pdf display where mmm is the month passed from
the dropdown. Both the *.php file and the *.htm files are in the same
directory with the PDF file in a subdirectory under that.

What is happening is on the htm page I am picking Feb and hitting Go, then
the browser shows website/PVETest.php?month=Feb
but I get page not found 404 error but it is there.
It is like the htm page is not really getting to the PHP file OR do I have things
in the wrong place.

If I try to run the php code directly from the command prompt on the server
I get a could not open file message

Thanks for you help in advance

Environment:

Software loaded and verified
Win Server 2003
IIS 6.0
PHP 5.4
VC9 x86
FastCGI
WinCache 1.3
Visual C++ Redistributable files for X86

PHP has been tested and works from command prompt
All FastCGI changes have been made per documentation

TestDropDown.htm code

Mar
Feb
Jan

PHPTest.php code

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I display pdf’s in php doing this:

header(‘Content-type: application/pdf’);
header(‘Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=”download.pdf”‘);
readfile($filename);

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I display pdf’s in php doing this:

header(‘Content-type: application/pdf’);
header(‘Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=”download.pdf”‘);
readfile($filename);

THANKS I will use that for another place I need to do that but
I still want the drop down to pass part of file name.

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Hi Slovey,
I see that your original post contains

TestDropDown.htm code
…

but your php script fragment is preceded by “PHPTest.php code”.

I wasn’t sure if these names were literally those being used in your test environment.

Dave

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Think your issue might be down to the way you’re using an array value within the string… I always get confused so am perhaps a little guilty of defensive coding in such instances. When you add your $_PUT value I’d prefer to concatenate it rather than embed it like you do, but if you do embed it you can enclose the value within brackets. Here’s an example:

[PHP] $arr = array(
“one” => “one”,
“two” => “two”,
“three” => “three”);

echo “Hello $arr[‘one’]
“; // Won’t work
echo “Hello “.$arr[‘two’].”
“; // Will work – preferred by me in a defensive way
echo “Hello {$arr[‘three’]}
“; // Will also work
[/PHP]
So one possible solution would be to do this:

[PHP] $url=’http://www.loventhal.com/Public/SL_’.$_PUT[‘month’].’.pdf’;[/PHP]

or

[PHP] $url=’http://www.loventhal.com/Public/SL_{$_PUT[‘month’]}.pdf’;[/PHP]

It looks as though you were thinking along those lines anyway as you had an period in your code before the month…?

Other than that I’d remember to tell the browser to expect a PDF as well

Also, bear in mind that PHP deals with single and double quotes in different ways!

Hope that helps.

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