Comments on: Outputting CSV as a Downloadable File in PHP http://www.toosweettobesour.com/2008/10/10/outputting-csv-as-a-downloadable-file-in-php/ Far Too Sweet To Be Sour Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:36:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Matt http://www.toosweettobesour.com/2008/10/10/outputting-csv-as-a-downloadable-file-in-php/comment-page-1/#comment-339 Matt Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:45:43 +0000 http://www.toosweettobesour.com/?p=193#comment-339 Adding the no-store, no-cache header causes IE to fail to download the file with the error "Internet Explorer cannot download....blah" . As far as I can tell this is a long standing bug in IE. Removing this line fixes the problem. However, I haven't tested whether IE then actually caches the file or not. Adding the no-store, no-cache header causes IE to fail to download the file with the error “Internet Explorer cannot download….blah” . As far as I can tell this is a long standing bug in IE. Removing this line fixes the problem. However, I haven’t tested whether IE then actually caches the file or not.

]]> By: Daniel Cousineau’s Blog: Outputting CSV as a Downloadable File in PHP : Dragonfly Networks http://www.toosweettobesour.com/2008/10/10/outputting-csv-as-a-downloadable-file-in-php/comment-page-1/#comment-204 Daniel Cousineau’s Blog: Outputting CSV as a Downloadable File in PHP : Dragonfly Networks Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:24:16 +0000 http://www.toosweettobesour.com/?p=193#comment-204 [...] a recent post to his blog Daniel Cousineau shows a method for correctly outputting CSV data in push down to the [...] [...] a recent post to his blog Daniel Cousineau shows a method for correctly outputting CSV data in push down to the [...]

]]> By: Daniel Cousineau http://www.toosweettobesour.com/2008/10/10/outputting-csv-as-a-downloadable-file-in-php/comment-page-1/#comment-203 Daniel Cousineau Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:05:01 +0000 http://www.toosweettobesour.com/?p=193#comment-203 @kL: While that is acceptable, it's good practice to set proper headings to prevent browsers from possibly assuming the file to be straight text (which CSV really is anyways) and outputting it in the browser as opposed to providing a download window so you can open directly into Excel/OpenOffice. @kL: While that is acceptable, it’s good practice to set proper headings to prevent browsers from possibly assuming the file to be straight text (which CSV really is anyways) and outputting it in the browser as opposed to providing a download window so you can open directly into Excel/OpenOffice.

]]> By: kL http://www.toosweettobesour.com/2008/10/10/outputting-csv-as-a-downloadable-file-in-php/comment-page-1/#comment-201 kL Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:29:22 +0000 http://www.toosweettobesour.com/?p=193#comment-201 Bleh. Use make URL like: realfile.php/fakefile.csv and you won't need Content-Disposition (or use mod_rewrite to hide .php completely) Bleh.

Use make URL like:

realfile.php/fakefile.csv

and you won’t need Content-Disposition (or use mod_rewrite to hide .php completely)

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