Re: MySQL to Excel using PHP
| From: | Miguel Cruz | Date: | Wed, 01 May 2002 16:59:30 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: MySQL to Excel using PHP | ||
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On Wed, 1 May 2002, Jay Blanchard wrote:
> If I name the file with a .xls extension it displays the code in the
> excel worksheet in the browser. If I name the file with the .php
> extension it opens Excel seperately, gives me a file download option (I
> click 'Open') and then asks me to tell it what created the file, so I
> pick Excel. Then the data is displayed properly in the Excel worksheet,
> outside of the browser. I want the file to open an Excel worksheet in
> the browser (IE, on an Intranet). Is there something I am missing?
Nope. IE is a little perverse about how it decides which viewer to use. So
just give it a name ending with .xls, or tack on a /whatever.xls to the
end of the link.
miguel