Comments on: Outputting CSV as a Downloadable File in PHP

By: Daniel Cousineau’s Blog: Outputting CSV as a Downloadable File in PHP : Dragonfly Networks

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:24:16 +0000

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By: Daniel Cousineau

Daniel Cousineau — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:05:01 +0000

@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

kL — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:29:22 +0000

Bleh.

Use make URL like:

realfile.php/fakefile.csv

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