Create text file and download

[Simon Rigby]

Hi folks,

Excuse if this has been asked before, and by all means just point me at
a thread if thats a suitable response.

I have a mySql database which I am running various queries against. Can
anyone suggest a way of creating a text file which is downloaded to the
user. In particuar is there a way of doing this without creating the
file on the server. In other words create it as a temp file as such and
then download that.

Hope this makes sense.

Thanks in advance

[Sjoerd]

Re: Create text file and download


Simon Rigby wrote:[color=blue]
> Can
> anyone suggest a way of creating a text file which is downloaded to the
> user.[/color]

Output plain text and use header() to set the following headers:
Content-type: text/plain
Content-disposition: attachment; filename=myfile .txt

[strawberry]

Re: Create text file and download

a text file of what?

Simon Rigby wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi folks,
>
> Excuse if this has been asked before, and by all means just point me at
> a thread if thats a suitable response.
>
> I have a mySql database which I am running various queries against. Can
> anyone suggest a way of creating a text file which is downloaded to the
> user. In particuar is there a way of doing this without creating the
> file on the server. In other words create it as a temp file as such and
> then download that.
>
> Hope this makes sense.
>
> Thanks in advance[/color]

[Simon Rigby]

Re: Create text file and download

Many Thanks

Sjoerd wrote:[color=blue]
> Simon Rigby wrote:[color=green]
> > Can
> > anyone suggest a way of creating a text file which is downloaded to the
> > user.[/color]
>
> Output plain text and use header() to set the following headers:
> Content-type: text/plain
> Content-disposition: attachment; filename=myfile .txt[/color]