Re: Sending output to the browser

Ed Greenberg wrote: > So here I am in the middle of satisfying a quickform based request. I'm > looping through my DB output sending lines of comma separated values > (csv) to the browser. > > 1. Is there anything in pear that can help build csv output from DB > output, or should I just do it with print statements. > > 2. Is there anything in pear that would zip the output up on the way to > the browser so I don't have to get involved with cleaning up temporary > files. > > Thanks, > </edg> Hi Ed, instead of print the csv data line by line you could prepare the whole csv content and then use HTTP_Download for transmitting it to the client. It think zip compression is also available. ( HTTP_Download is really a nice piece of code, imho :-) --Jens