Download to excel issue
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 10:09 am
Hope some one can help here as this ones getting me stumped, I have the below code and what i want it to do is take data from mysql table and download the data to an excel file which the user gets the option to download or open it, when i run the below code all i get is the output in the browser window not in excel like i want ? can anyone help .. ? (by the way i cant use pear)
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<?php
include('config.php');
mysql_connect($AddressBook_HOST, $AddressBook_Username, $AddressBook_Password) or die ("Can't connect!");
mysql_select_db($AddressBook_DatabaseName) or die ("Can't open database!");
$result = mysql_query('select * from Addresses');
$count = mysql_num_fields($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{
$value = str_replace('"', '""', $value);
$value = '"' . $value . '"' . "\t";
}
$line .= $value;
}
$data .= trim($line)."\n";
}
$data = str_replace("\r", "", $data);
if ($data == "") {
$data = "\nno matching records found\n";
}
header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=excelfile.xls");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: 0");
echo $header."\n".$data;
?>