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