Push a File

[vmusic]

Hi,
I'm making a reports section to a web site. One reporting option is to have the report in a coma delimited file format.

When this is selected and the user runs the report, I want a dialog box to appear where the user can save the report locally to their computer.

My code runs the report and writes each line out into a temporary file.

Then I want to echo or push out the entire file from the web server to the user's browser.

I know -or think- I can use the header function....
If the file name is temp.csv, how would code look?,

Can someone tell me what the parameters are for the header function?

Do I have to 'open' the file first before I feed it to the header() function?


Thanks!!

Vmusic

[devinemke]

<?php
$file = '/path/to/temp.csv';

header('Content-type: text/plain');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="temp.csv"');
readfile($file);
exit();
?>