On Feb 8, 2008, at 10:14 AM, Hiep Nguyen wrote:
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Per Jessen wrote:
Hiep Nguyen wrote:
is there anyway to generate this into xls file w/o using fopen &
fwrite to the server? my goal is to have a link after the table and
user can click on that link and a save window pop up to allow user
to
save to local disk.
Yes - have a link like this:
<a href="<yourscript.php?parameters>">Get XLS file</a>
in yourscript.php, you evaluate the parameters given and build the
XSL
file as output:
header("Content-Type: application/excel");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"filename\"");
print
.
.
.
.
.
done.
i already got this method, but the problem that i have is the
parameters is mysql statement and it's very long. i don't think a
good idea to pass this in the url. also, the page that i'm working
on is a search page, therefore the mysql statement is very
complicate and long. that's why i don't want to pass via url.
is there way to do within this page???
I have actually done what you are looking for... Here is how I do it:
On the search page, write the search phrase into a session variable so
you can access it from another page and then run this code:
<?PHP
$sortOrder = $_SESSION['order'];
$search = $_SESSION['search'];
$select = "SELECT * FROM ".$table." WHERE blah blah blah blah blah"";
$export = mysql_query($select);
$fields = mysql_num_fields($export);
for ($i = 0; $i < $fields; $i++) {
$header .= mysql_field_name($export, $i) . "\t";
}
while($row = mysql_fetch_row($export)) {
$line = '';
foreach($row as $value) {
if ((!isset($value)) or ($value == "")) {
$value = "\t";
}
else
{
$value = str_replace('"', '""', $value);
$value = '"' . $value . '"' . "\t";
}
$line .= $value;
}
$data .= trim($line). "\n";
}
$data = str_replace("\r", "", $data);
if ($data =="") {
$data ="\n(0) Records Found!\n";
}
header("Content-type: application/x-msdownload");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=Export.xls");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: 0");
print "$header\n$data";
?>
What that does is it writes the current search pattern into an excel
file called Export.xls and downloads it to your harddrive. I am in the
process of re-writing it to work as a function, but have had mixed
results so far. I'm learning functions right now :)
If you know functions, and want to take a stab at re-writing it, I can
provide you with the code I have so far :)
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