generate file

Hi,

I have some data in $data.
I want that when you go to export.php, $data in extracted into a file : extract.tab .

I first tried this:
header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=extraction.tab");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: 0");
print $data;

It works fine with MOZILLA. But Internet Explorer is trying to make me download export.php instead of the extraction file !

So I tried this :
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Expires: ' . gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s') . ' GMT');
if (PMA_USR_BROWSER_AGENT == 'IE') {
header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename='extraction.tab'");
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
header('Pragma: public');
} else {
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='extraction.tab'");
header('Pragma: no-cache');
}

but the problem remains the same ...

What should I do?

Thank you,

Nathan

check out the user comments on the php manual page for the function header()

one of those things should work..

I already checked. Didn't find anything that helped me...

extraction.tab is not a file pre-existing.
all the data is in $data, so I cannot filesize it, or readfile it.

Hey thanks,
I adapted your script to my problem, and it works !

$filename = "mmhorders-".$fromM."-".$fromD."-".$fromY."-".$toM."-".$toD."-".$toY.".tab";
header("Content-Type: application/force-download");
header('Accept-Ranges: bytes');
header('Connection: close');
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename ");
print $data;

Thank you,

Nathan

Hi, just as an added extra I would then suggest you add this