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[sachin parekh]

Hi Tom

nothing wrong in creating on the fly .cvs file if required only.
so you can save bulk of the .csv files.

anyway : two approach you can have

1: you can generate the file and save it to the harddisk  and offer as link.

2: You can either dont save it to disk but just output the content stream to 
the user when clickingon the link... by using
assuming "$contents" is the content that you want to write in a file.

header('Content-Type: application/text');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.$FILENAME);
echo $contents ;
exit;


I hope this might be useful.

Sachin Parekh
Web Developer
India

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>Hi all, I've been a lurker for a couple months as I've been learning PHP,
>and many of your suggestions have been really helpful.  I was hoping 
>someone
>might have an idea on how to tackle an issue I haven't been able to find 
>any
>info on.
>
>I'm currently working on a new version of a departmental intranet website.
>I have a database, and offer the users a search page that lets them query 
>it
>in a variety of ways.  The new results page is not laid out in a grid, as
>the old one was (we've added a lot of new fields, and the grid would be too
>packed).  Some users have requested the ability to download the data for
>import into Excel (they used to just copy and paste the table in).  I've
>figured out how to create a .csv file, and I could, theoretically, create
>one every time someone runs a query, save it in a temp directory, and
>include a link to it on the webpage.  We'd have to run a cleanup routine
>every night, though, to delete all these .csv's on the server.  It seems
>really clumsy to me.  What I'd like to do is put a link on the result page
>that, when clicked on, builds the .csv right then and offers it to the user
>for download.  Is this feasible, or should I just go with the temp 
>directory
>full of reports?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Tom




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