I\'m using an (I know, I know, ...) in my app (single-page application with ExtJS 4.2) to do file downloads because they contain lots of data and
I guess I'll give a more hacky alternative to the more proper ways of doing it that the others have posted. If you have control over the PHP download script, perhaps you can just simply output javascript when the download is complete. Or perhaps redirect to a html page that runs javascript. The javascript run, can then try to call something in the parent frame. What will work depends if your app runs in the same domain or not
Same domain frame can just use frame javascript objects to reference each other. so it could be something like, in your single page application you can have something like
window.downloadHasFinished=function(str){ //Global pollution. More unique name?
//code to be run when download has finished
}
And for your download php script, you can have it output this html+javascript when it's done
For different domains, We can use postMessage. So in your single page application it will be something like
$(window).on("message",function(e){
var e=e.originalEvent
if(e.origin=="http://downloadphp.anotherdomain.com"){ //for security
var message=e.data //data passed if any
//code to be run when download has finished
}
});
and in your php download script you can have it output this html+javascript
Honestly, if the other answers work, you should probably use those. I just thought this was an interesting alternative so I posted it up.