[TYPO3-mvc] Skip rendering of the view

[Henjo Hoeksma]

Thanks guys. The return was what did the trick. Got it working now.

@Claus: no time to put something like this in a widget for the coming time
I'm afraid!

Kind regards,

Henjo

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On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:19, Sebastian Schreiber <me at schreibersebastian.de
> wrote:

> Am 22.12.2011 10:16, schrieb Claus Due:
>
>  On Dec 22, 2011, at 10:03 AM, Sebastian Schreiber wrote:
>>
>>  Just put it a return or return NULL (it´s actually the same) in your
>>> action and you should be fine.
>>>
>> And perhaps also use a typeNum to suppress the normal page rendering
>> since it looks like Henjo would like that gone too :)
>>
>> Example, ext_localconf.php
>> t3lib_extMgm::addTypoScript($_**EXTKEY,'setup',
>>   [GLOBAL]
>>   page = PAGE
>>   page.typeNum = 0
>>   page.5 = USER
>>   page.5.userFunc = tx_extbase_core_bootstrap->run
>>   page.5.extensionName = Fed
>>   page.5.pluginName = API
>>   page.10>
>> ', TRUE);
>>
>> Perhaps a Fluid Widget could even be used (if your content output is not
>> cached). In rough terms it would require a Widget with AJAX enabled, a
>> WidgetController with an action to output the .vcf and finally
>> using<f:widget.link action="theDownloadAction" ajax="TRUE">link to
>> file</f:widget.link>  inside the template file for the Widget. This is a
>> more complex solution but it gets around the typeNum issue.
>>
>> Who knows - perhaps the Widget could also be used as a general
>> .vcf-download component others might find useful. I'll gladly accept is as
>> a donation to FED ;)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Claus
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> of course. And additionally you should also send the correct response
> headers in the action or combined with your PAGE-TS-Settings:
>
> Something like:
> $this->response->setHeader('**Content-Disposition', 'attachment;
> filename="' . $fileName . '.vcf"');
> $this->response->setHeader('**Content-Length', strlen($vCardString));
> $this->response->setHeader('**Connection', 'close');
>
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