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[nycphp-talk] Downloading a CSV file

Jon Baer jonbaer at jonbaer.net
Tue Sep 7 23:03:11 EDT 2004


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Faber Fedor wrote:
| The only other thing I can think of is to have PHP grab the
| dataset, format the data as CSV and then...what?  Display it in her
| browser and have her do a File->Save?  Not nice, IMO.
|
| Any brilliant ideas?

You could adjust her MIME options to allow her to open/run the file
automatically instead of File-Save, I beleive Firefox/IE give you this
option .. in other words you dont always have to save.  Give yourself a
custom header and it should pipe the data through.

Personally Ive found cron'ing mysql jobs w/ XML to be a pretty nice way
of having the data around for multiple uses and using XSL (albeit not an
expert but finding it pretty handy once you figure the cryptic
templating out) :-)

- - Jon

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