Posted by Toby A Inkster on 03/02/07 17:45

Eric Layman wrote:

> With a click of a button, php is able to grab these fields and by using
> header(), convert the output to Ms Word doc.

The PHP header() function does no such thing -- it simply sends an HTTP
header. You might be able to use an HTTP header to convince a browser to
open a plain text file in Word, but the file is not really a Word file.

Similarly, I'd guess you could use the same trick to send an HTML file to
Word instead of sending a plain text file. So just add a few HTML tags
into your output and Word's heuristics ought to auto-detect that it's
HTML, and do line wrapping.

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