Question: I wish to write the response of hitting a given url into the href attribute of an anchor tag using PHP. How can I do this?

Here's an example of what I excpect to happen

```
mylink.com/getdoc?name=documentA

```

returns a string as a response:

```
mylink.com/document2012-03-15.pdf

```

I need to write this response (using PHP into the href attribute as shown below:

```
<a href="mylink.com/document2012-03-15.pdf"> Open Document A </a>

```

(so the above will be the final source of my page.

Answer: 
I think there are a few ways to do what you want. Not all of them will work exactly as you ask for, but the end result should be the same.

### Solution one

My first possible solution was already posted by @shanethehat. You could use `file_get_contents` to call your PHP script via HTTP and get the response.

### Solution two

Another possible solution was suggested in the comments of the post by @YourCommonSense. You could simply `include` the `getdoc` script in the PHP script that is generating your HTML file, like this:

```
$_GET["name"] = "documentA";
echo "<a href=\"". include("getdoc.php") ."\"> Open Document A </a>";

```

### Solution three

Or you could change the way the `getdoc` script works. You could use a script more like this:

```
header("Content-type:application/pdf");
header("Content-Disposition:attachment; filename=\"{$_GET["name"]}\"");
readfile($_GET["name"]);

```

And you keep your link like this: `<a href="mylink.com/getdoc.php?name=documentA"> Open Document A </a>`. When `getdoc.php` is called, it will get the specified file and start a file download.

**NOTE:** you should probably do some input sanitization with this method (removing slashes, making sure the file ends in .pdf, etc) to make sure someone doesn't try to get a file they're not allowed to get.

That's all I'm coming up with at the moment. There might be a more clever way to do it, but hopefully one of these solutions will do it for you. I would try solution 2 or 3 first, and if they don't work out for you, then go with solution 1.
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> How to write response to file using php
> 
> 
> 

Noway.  

PHP do not process HTTP requests.  

You have to set up your web server to do the rewrite.  

There are 100500 questions under mod\_rewrite tag, you will find the solution easily. 

Note that you may wish to rewrite your url to `/getdoc.php?name=document2012-03-15.pdf`, not one you mentioned in your question