Jquery AJAX call to create download files appears to run twice - struggling to understand why :o(

I am using an Jquery Ajax call to deliver a file download to site users. The process is:

1)Users select various files they want, by clicking on them 2)I store their selections in a mysql database 3)I have a div panel on the right of the page that lists their files (like a basket) and provides a download button 4)If they click on the button, it runs a jquery ajax call to a php file to create a zip file, load all their selected files into the zip and then close the zip. Finally return the zip filename in json. 5)success: then fires a window.open to force the download

This all basically works, but there's a weird problem I can't work out and it's killing me!

Here's the bits of code:

First javascript:

//download files in a zip
$("#zipdownload").click(function(){
 $.ajax({
    type: "GET",
    url: "zipdload.php",
    dataType: "json",
    cache: false,
    success: function(data) {

//opens a small window for IE security thing
    window.open(data.archive,'download','left=20,top=20,width=300,height=20,toolbar=0,resizable=0');    
    // then clears all the divs to simulate t开发者_运维知识库he bag emptying
        $('#bagCounter').text("Empty!");
        $('#zipdownload').text(""); 
        $('#item-list').text("");           
        }
});

});

Then the layout:

//styled containers to create a sliding panel with a clickable tab
<div id="rightpanelouter">
<div id="rightpanelinner">

<?php if ($_SESSION['username']){
    echo $_SESSION['username'].'<br>Toolbox';
    };
?>

<div id="bagContents">
  <div id="item-list">
            <br> Show Bag
            //PHP to generate list of files
       </div>
       <br><br>
       <div id="zipdownload" style="cursor:pointer;">
           //this element has the action attached to fire function.
               <?php 
           if ($numOfBagDocs != 0){
               echo 'Download';
       }
        ?>
   </div>
</div>

If anyone is interested I can attach the PHP script too but I'm guessing that's not the problem.

The problem:

The script appears to run twice (at least).

I initially appended the zip filename with a now() stamp so they were always different. but I noticed sometimes the window.open tried to download a file with a now() stamp 1sec different to the saved file.

I then tried to change to a rand() number and that showed two different random numbers!

So I removed the append so the filename was always the same (just appended with the username) and that downloaded but simply kept appending the same zip file with new entries. All that would do is make the zip grow and grow.

So I tried to put a 'file_exists' and 'unlink in to delete the file before creating a zip. All that seemed to do was delete the file AFTER creating the zip and before the jscript download started !!! :-(

All this tells me the script is being called at least twice.

I've seen many entries similar to this but I can't seem to understand whether they apply to my problem. Once suggestion was to chain an 'unbind' before the click function and that just stopped it working, so no good.

The HTML I've attached is pretty much straight after the body tag and there are no other javascript calls within this section.

So apologies if there's a really dumb mistake here, but I've now spent many hours scouring around and just can't work it out.

I would REALLY appreciate any help. Thank you in advance.

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So I've got to the bottom of it, without really understanding why. Lack of proper javascript education I guess! The problem was related to me loading a page from another page using a .load and linking the relevant JScript in the second page. However the DIV being clicked was inside the initial page (I remember now I moved it for aesthetic reasons).

So I moved the click function to the Jscript being called from the initial page itself and he presto it now only fires once!

So I don't understand why that would make a difference but it does, so I happy I can proceed.

Thanks for reading and I hope it helps someone else one day !

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I had the same issue. I solved it by adding

evt.stopImmediatePropagation();

to the function. Of course you have to add the evt to the function like:

$(document).on("click", "a.className", function (evt) {

    evt.stopImmediatePropagation();

    $.fileDownload($(this).prop('href'), {
        preparingMessageHtml: "File prepared...",
        failMessageHtml: "Error!",
    });

    return false;
});

It seems to occur, because there are nested elements which fire this event many times. See jQuery Click fires twice when clicking on label