Download File Using Javascript/jQuery

Question

I have a very similar requirement specified here.

I need to have the user\'s browser start a download manually when $(\'a#someID\').click();

But

Answer 1

Using anchor tag and PHP it can be done, Check this answer

JQuery Ajax call for PDF file download

HTML
    Download pdf here

PHP

I am checking for file size because if you load pdf from CDN cloudfront, you won`t get the size of document which forces the document to download in 0kb, To avoid this i am checking with this condition

 if($fsize) {//checking if file size exist
      header("Content-length: $fsize");
    }