{"id":75,"date":"2014-02-07T16:24:47","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T16:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tvarwebu.cz\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2014-02-07T16:34:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T16:34:49","slug":"updated-script-for-downloading-file-via-ajax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tvarwebu.cz\/blog\/2014\/02\/updated-script-for-downloading-file-via-ajax\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated script for downloading file from javascript"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had to use the ajax to download a file internally on our NestForms<\/a> project. I was searching for a solution and found one on Filamentgroup<\/a> website.<\/p>\n

Unforutunatelly, there were some issues that it did not correctly encoded the request. So I had to update the script in order to make it working. See the code below. I hope that it will help you solve your problems.<\/p>\n

jQuery.download = function(url, data, method){\r\n  \/\/url and data options required\r\n  if( url && data ){\r\n    \/\/data can be string of parameters or array\/object\r\n    data = typeof data == 'string' ? data : jQuery.param(data);\r\n    \/\/split params into form inputs\r\n    var inputs = new Array();\r\n    jQuery.each(data.split('&'), function(){\r\n      var pair = this.split('=');\r\n      inputs[inputs.length] = $('<input name=\"'+ decodeURIComponent(pair[0]) +'\" type=\"hidden\" \/>')\r\n        .val(decodeURIComponent( pair[1].replace(\/\\+\/g, \" \")));\r\n    });\r\n    \/\/send request\r\n    jQuery('<form action=\"'+ url +'\" method=\"'+ (method||'post') +'\">'+'<\/form>').append(inputs)\r\n    .appendTo('body').submit().remove();\r\n  };\r\n};<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I had to use the ajax to download a file internally on our NestForms project. I was searching for a solution and found one on Filamentgroup website. Unforutunatelly, there were some issues that it did not correctly encoded the request. So I had to update the script in order to make it working. See the … <\/p>\n
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