RE: [PHP] Works in Mozilla, not in IE

That just made IE put it out in "data" style, Excel didn't open up. :( Any other thoughts? -----Original Message----- From: Frank M. Kromann [mailto:frank@kromann.info] Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 2:47 PM To: Robert Sossomon Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Works in Mozilla, not in IE Hi Robert, This line header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=customers.xls"); forces IE to save. If you change attachment to inline it will open the Excel in the plug-in imbeded in the browser. - Frank > I have the script below from another source, and it works prefectly in > Mozilla, however IE keeps wanting to save the PHP page and then barfs. > Any ways to fix and make it work for both? > > TIA! > Robert > > <CODE> > > <?php > //Written by Dan Zarrella. Some additional tweaks provided by JP > Honeywell //pear excel package has support for fonts and formulas > etc.. more complicated > //this is good for quick table dumps (deliverables) > > //Includes Snipped for posting > //DB Query tweaked for usage > $result = mysql_query("select * from customers where cust_salesmen = > $user_id"); $count = mysql_num_fields($result); > > for ($i = 0; $i < $count; $i++){ > $header .= mysql_field_name($result, $i)."\t"; > } > > while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)){ > $line = ''; > foreach($row as $value){ > if(!isset($value) || $value == ""){ > $value = "\t"; > }else{ > # important to escape any quotes to preserve them in the data. > $value = str_replace('"', '""', $value); > # needed to encapsulate data in quotes because some data might be > multi line. # the good news is that numbers remain numbers in Excel > even though quoted. > $value = '"' . $value . '"' . "\t"; > } > $line .= $value; > } > $data .= trim($line)."\n"; > } > # this line is needed because returns embedded in the data have "\r" > # and this looks like a "box character" in Excel > $data = str_replace("\r", "", $data); > > > # Nice to let someone know that the search came up empty. > # Otherwise only the column name headers will be output to Excel. if > ($data == "") { > $data = "\nno matching records found\n"; > } > > # This line will stream the file to the user rather than spray it across > the screen > header("Content-type: application/octet-stream"); > > # replace excelfile.xls with whatever you want the filename to default > to > header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=customers.xls"); > header("Pragma: no-cache"); > header("Expires: 0"); > > echo $header."\n".$data; > ?> > <! END Code> > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php