Codeigniter redirect after force download

Question

I have a public function that downloads a JSON file. I would like it to redirect to the index (base_url) after the download is complete. I tried using the ob_start and ob_flush PHP functions but that doesn't do it. Is this possible?

    $this->load->helper('url');
    $data['events'] = $this->events_model->get_events();

    ob_start();
    header("Content-Description: File Transfer"); 
    header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream"); 
    header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='EVENTS.json'"); 

    echo json_encode($data);
    ob_flush();

    redirect(base_url());

Have you checked [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/822707/php-generate-file-for-download-then-redirect)? — user1190992, Apr 10 '13 at 14:05
You can not deliver download data _and_ redirect in the same HTTP response. — CBroe, Apr 10 '13 at 14:15

Aleksey Stetsenko · Answer 1 · 2014-03-22T00:23:13.530

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function redirect() does not work after 'echo';

before redirect you can't echo anything in browser

please comment this row:

//echo json_encode($data);

edited Mar 22 '14 at 00:23

answered Apr 10 '13 at 14:09

Aleksey Stetsenko

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Codeigniter redirect after force download

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