Hi Robert,
This line
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=customers.xls");
forces IE to save. If you change attachment to inline it will open the
Excel in the plug-in imbeded in the browser.
- Frank
> 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>
>
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