GD wrote:
> i have a php script to convert a simple query into an excel format
> file (tab delimited) which is called mysql-to-excel. on the author's
> website when i click on the script i download an xls file, but when i
> do the same on my server it just echos back the query without saving a
> file. any ideas. here is the script:

This has much to do with mimetypes and how things are configured, by tradition
products from microsoft are quite bad when it comes to mimetypes. I suggest
you try with application/octet-stream which seems to be the one and only way
to force a microsoft product to always save a file instead of displaying them.


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//Aho