Download data to user computer.

[tywin]

I have a php page. User is going to enter dates in and I am going to have sql statements that selects the orders depending on those dates in my MYSQL database. Then I want the user to be able to download this in a certain format to their computer. Want the file to be able to open in word.

Do I have to first save the file to the server?

How does the user download it to their computer from the php page?

Thanks
Tywin

[Ph0eniX]

If you save it on the server first then you can just give the user its URL to click on.

[herve]

Hi,

well, you can create a regular file on the server
HD, but you can also create data "on the fly"
(using a URL pointing to a PHP script, which
create, not an HTML output like usual, but an
other type of file (ASCII text for instance))

If you want to do that, you need the header()
function.

Look for examples there :
http://www.zend.com/manual/function.header.php

(at the bottom of the page)

regards,
Hervé.