Outputting information to a local file.

[whit]

Now, I'm not too keen on a webpage creating a local file and putting information into it...but the boss says do this, so I do it. (He did listen to my objections and then tell me he still wanted it, so he's aware)

What I'm trying to do is this: The user will be able to run a query of the database based on certain criteria, and the results will be output to the screen. I also want to be able to generate a CSV file if they've checked off a certain box. Putting the information into CSV format is no problem...the problem comes when I try to open a file on the user's computer and write to it.

I've been trying to use fopen and fputs to do this, but I keep getting errors. (Mainly the fputs returns invalid file handle) Any suggestions?

Whit

[eoghain]

You can't do this "inside" of PHP. PHP is a complete server side language so you only have the ability to write files to the server. What you should do is make the CSV file download to the user and they will decide where to put it on there system. Look at the [man]header()[/man] function.