Re: Generate a file
| From: | Miguel Cruz | Date: | Thu, 11 Jul 2002 22:16:41 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Generate a file | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Phillip S. Baker wrote:
> Okay here is what I want to do.
>
> Select the field of a database that I want.
> Hit submit.
> Execute a query of a database based on the said form.
> Gather all the data and rows and plug them into an excel generated file.
> Display a dialogue box asking the user the save the file.
> The saved file being an excel file with data generated from a database.
>
> Make sense?
>
> Would the header calls be something like this?
> header("Content-type: application/xls");
> header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=downloaded.xls");
>
> Now if that is cool, how would I get the data into the downloaded.xls file
> to have this work?
echo "Cell A1\tCellB1\tCellC1\n";
echo "Cell A2\tCellB2\tCellC2\n";
miguel