[UPHPU] I hate MSIE!

[Steve Dibb]

C. Ed Felt wrote:
> Fellow PHP developers:
>
> I have an annoying little issue with CSV files, mime types and IE and 
> I was wondering if any of you have suggestions.
>
> There is nothing secret here so here is the PHP code I am using to 
> pull a CSV page from a buffer ($_SESSION["csv"]) to a browser.  This 
> code works fine in Mozilla (of course) but is broken in MSIE (as usual):
> The url is (not available to you of course): 
> http://panel_test.localhost/csvout.php
>
> <?php
> session_start();
> header('Content-Type: application/txt');
> $CSV = $_SESSION["csv"];
> $name = $_SESSION["fileName"];
> header('Content-Length: '.strlen($CSV));
> header('Content-disposition: inline; filename="'.$name.'"');
> echo $CSV;
> ?>
>

Have you tried something like this?

    header('Content-type: application/octet-stream');
    header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=export.csv');

and then just echoing out the CSV?

Btw, save some memory and reference the session so as to not store it twice.

$CSV =& $_SESSION["csv"];

Steve