multiple header handling

[Anon]

I am a complete PHP newbie but am falling quickly in love with this scripting language. I am using PHP right now to view information from a database and one thing I would like to do is allow people to download information in a .csv file.

I am using the header() function for authentication and would also like to use it to enable the file download. The problem of course is that I get a parsing error indicating that a header is already set. I have tried separating the two and simply calling them using include() but this doesn't work. how can I do both

header( 'WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Private"' );
header( 'HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized' );

and

header("Content-Disposition:$attachment filename=data.csv");
header("Content-type: text/plain");

????

thanks for the help. I sure its something simple so thanks for not flaming me. 😉

[jordan]

You could always try this:

header( 'WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Private"\nHTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized\nContent-Disposition:$attachment filename=data.csv\nContent-type: text/plain');

[Anon]

when I handle it this way I no longer get the download box to pop up. Still working on it.... any other ideas?

[Anon]

got it squashed.
I ended up using nesting the header() function inside an 'if else' statement to avoid the conflict. I WILL be using your method to force a location redirect after dumping my file though so THANK YOU for your help.

its good to know that help is always around the corner! =)

later